GOLDEN SLIPPER STAKES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27208, 27 November 1953, Page 4

GOLDEN SLIPPER STAKES

PROJECTED CONTEST AT ROSEHILL RICH EVENT FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS The Sydney Turf Club, in conjunction with the Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association, is considering the promotion of a race for two-year-olds, which, if it receives the support expected, will be the richest two-year-old race in the Southern Hemisphere. It is expected that the prize money, derived from nomination fees, sweepstakes and added money, will be about £20,000, with a prize to the winner of something like £14,000. These amounts may be exceeded if breeders give the proposal their full support. The race will be called the Golden Slipper Stakes. It will be run over six furlongs, at Rosehill, some time between the V.R.C. Sires’ Produce Stakes, at Flemington, and the A.J.C. Sires’ Produce Stakes at Randwick. Colts and fillies will be eligible. An equivalent race for two-year-olds in America, the Garden State, which is run at New Jersey each October, provides the richest stake in the world. This year stake money for the Garden State totalled £A119,732. The winner received £ABB,OBO and the breeder of the winner £A3592. Proposed conditions of the Golden Slipper Stakes call for the entry of brood mares in the season in which they are mated, at a nomination fee of £l. An additional fee of £2 will be payable when foals are born and a further fee of £3 when the foals are yearlings. These fees will be paid by the owners of brood mares. Further acceptance fees will then be paid by the subsequent owners of the yearlings if they desire to keep their horses qualified for the race. Allotment of the prize-money provides for 12J per cent, of the total to go to the nominator of the mare producing the winner. This will give the stud nominaing the mare a good return for its original outlay in nomination fees. The proposal has been approved in principle by the Sydney Turf Club and is now under consideration by the State executive committees of the Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association of Australia.