CRITICISM OF TROT STAKE

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31862, 14 December 1968, Page 7

CRITICISM OF TROT STAKE

(A Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Dec. 13. Prize money for the InterDominion Trotting Championship at Wayville, South Australia. next year can only be described as ‘’measly.” says the trotting writer, J. Holloway, in the Sydney “Sun” yesterday. Holloway says trotters from New Zealand and New South Wales have practically no incentive to make the trip. Prize money for the Grand Final of the Trotting Championship is $3BOO. of which $2500 will go to the winner. ‘This is. In complete contrast with the $BOOO prize money offered by the Victorian Trotting Board for its Australasian Trotting Championships,” he says. Holloway says entries from New Zealand totalled half a dozen, but the cost in transporting them to Australia would be more than half the first prize.

‘This all boils down to one point. Increased prize money

will have to be given if they wish to attract the best trotters. “After all. the race is the Inter-Dominion Trotting Cham pionship, and is supposed to be for the best horses in training. "They give big money for the pacing races, and although the trotting events are not nearly as spectacular they deserve more than the prize money being offered.”