Melbourne Cup to remain top event
NZPA Melbourne The Melbourne Cup is to remain Australia’s premier
racing attraction. This year’s race on November 6 is worth $310,000, including trophies, making it the richest race in Australia.
Mr R. Steele, in his annual report to the Victorian Racing Club, said the committee did not want to engage in a “stakes race” with local or inter-state clubs.
“However, the club is conscious that Victoria has deservedly, a reputation for presenting racing of a class and standard that others wish to emulate,” said Mr Steele.
Mr Steele praised the introduction of the drug testing programme started before last year’s spring carnivals. “Since the programme was introduced 2600 horses have been tested and the fact that no ‘positives’ have been discovered is gratifying,” he said. The state government was the biggest winner from last season’s racing at Flemington! The report showed the Government received a total of $9,024,000 from bookmakers’ turnover tax and commission from on and offcourse totalisator investments. Bookmakers’ tax amounted to more than SI.3M.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19790830.2.107.17
Bibliographic details
Press, 30 August 1979, Page 20
Word Count
173Melbourne Cup to remain top event Press, 30 August 1979, Page 20
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in