MELBOURNE CUP

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29107, 20 January 1960, Page 4

MELBOURNE CUP

Big Races For Carnival

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, January 19.

The Victoria Racing Club is likely to hold a feature mile race, expected to rival Sydney’s famous Epsom and Doncaster Handicaps in both glamour and prize money, for the final day of its £A25,000 Centenary Melbourne Cup meeting in November, according to the Melbourne “Age” racing correspondent.

The club also may include a rich sprint race on the first day of the carnival—Derby Day—as a first leg of a double with the Melbourne Cup. Mr Ross Grey-Smith, the vicechairman of the V.R.C., has given a hint of these programme additions, said the correspondent. Mr Grey-Smith, who is also chairman of the V.R.C. Melbourne Cup promotion sub-committee, said that the club hoped to hold a feature race on each day of the carnival.

He was speaking at the in-* augural meeting of a citizens’ committee to plan the cup carnival. Mr Grey-Smith said that the V.R.C. would probably offer about £A82.000 in stake money at the carnival.

The V.R.C. hopes, the correspondent said, to bring together Australia’s best milers in a race under handicap conditions, similar to the Epsom and Doncaster. The Epsom Handicap carries prize money of £5500 and the Doncaster £6OOO.