STARTING GATE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29994, 1 December 1962, Page 4

STARTING GATE

Extensive Use Next Month

Eight races, including a non-tolaiieator event, will be started from behind the Marling gate at the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s summer meeting at Addington on January 1 and 2. The gate will be used four times on the first day when the feature event will be the Lightning Mile. The stake foe this race will be £lOOO. but an additional £250 will be paid to the winner provided his time is better than Cadwceus s New Zealand record time of Imin 57 3-ssec for one mile. The committee reserves the right to select the field tor this race.

The Four-year-old Stakes, with a stake of £5OO, will be run over 12 furlongs and a half. Non-winners and winners of one race will be eligible to contest the event. The V. J. McKibbin Staked will also be run over 12 furlong* and a baif, the stake for thia event being £B3O. The limit for the event will be 3min 2Lsec for 12 furlong*. The Au Revoir Stakes will be run over nine furlongs and a half for a stake of £950. The limit for this race will be 2m in 45sec for 10 furlongs. Pacer* as*tweed at imin 3Otec and faster for two nulee will contest the £lOOO New Year Handicap, and the Stewards' Handicap, of £lOOO, will be run over 13 furlongs under invitation conditions for trotters. There will be two other race* for trotters on the first Cross Shakes on the second day will be for three-year-old non-winners and winners of one race. Run over run* furlong* and a half, the race will carry a stake of £5OO.

Cnee again there will be three totalssator races for trotters, the mam event being the Trotters’ Flying Mile. This race will carry a stake of £lOOO. and an additional £250 will be paid to the winner provided its time is better than DianttMi* Giri's New Zealand record of 2min 2 2-ssec for on* mile.

Tba Recovery Stakes, of £B5O, run over nine furlong* and a half, with a limit of -nun 47**e for 10 furloe<*. will be the other event on the programme for which the starting gate will be used.

The main race for pacer* that day will be the H. H Wauchop Handicap, run under invitation condition* Tha* event will carry a stake of £lOOO and wiU be run oxer 10 furlong*. Three-year-oid trotter* will contest the Trotting Stake* Trial, wtueb will be run over nine furlongs' and a half The stake for this event will be £lOO.

Identification. A doctor urged at a meeting of the Stapleford. Nottinghamshire. Road-Safety Committee tonight that all motorists should have their blood group tattooed on their buttocks in case of emergency.—(London, November 28.)