TROTTING Daily Stakes Increase By Canterbury Park

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32126, 23 October 1969, Page 5

TROTTING Daily Stakes Increase By Canterbury Park

Stakes are to be increased by $3OOO a day at the four meetings to be run at Addington Raceway this season by the Canterbury Rark Trotting Club. This increase will give the club average daily stakes of $lB,lBO, placing it second only to the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club on last season’s figures.

The Canterbury Park club is the last of the three racing at Addington to announce its stakes schedule for the season. Stakes for the three clubs have been increased by about $41,000. The club had made a slightly increased payment to the administration of Addington Raceway from its share of the profits of the Ttotalisator Agency Board, said the president (Mr E. F. Mercer) yesterday. The committee decided to increase stakes by $3OOO a day for four meetings this season, he said. Next season the club would have five meetings and provision has been made to increase stakes

; by a minimum of $3OOO at all , of them. “The whole position will be ' reviewed at the end of the i season, and if we have an- , other profit, consideration will be given to providing fur- ' tber increases," said Mr Mer- ' cer. . The framing of the programme for the club's meet--1 ing on January 1 and 2 had 1 not been quite completed, but ; the stake for the Canterbury Park Trotting Cup had been ' increased by $l5OO to $7500, he said. The New Year Free-for ail, the main race for pacers on 1 the second night of the meet- ‘ ing, has had its stake in- > creased by $lOOO and will now 1 be worth $4OOO. The limits ' for the race is 2min llsec, i while 2min 12sec horses may ' start. The Cross Stakes, also on the second night, will this season carry a stake of $2OOO. an increase of $750. The race

will be restricted to three-year-olds which have won at least one race. Previously, the race was for three and four-year-old winners. The main race for pacers on the first night, the President’s Handicap, with a limit of 2min 13sec, will carry a stake of $2500, the same as last year. An increase of $5OO has been applied to the Stewards' Trotting Free-for-all, which will now be worth $3OOO. This race will also be run on the first night. Schedule The club has drawn up a schedule of stakes which will apply to ordinary handicap events for both pacers and trotters. These will result in increases of from $lOO to $250 in stakes for all supporting races for pacers, and from $lOO to $5OO in races for trotters.

Stakes to be paid by the Canterbury Park club fall short of those paid by the Metropolitan club, but they are; in most instances, greater than those to be offered by the New Brighton club. A comparison of the stakes is:—

The Canterbury Park club , has decided that stakes for restricted free-for-alls will be ’ the average of the two classes concerned. A stake of $2OOO will be attached to races for 2min 15sec, and , 2min 14sec, $2400 for 2min 14 sec and 2min 13sec, and $2600 for 2min 13sec and 2min 12 I sec, increases of $lOO or $l5O.

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