Triple Crown worth $1/2M
NZPA • ’ . Sydney The Victorian Amateur Turf Club is offering a $500,000 bonus for its Triple Crown, this year. ■. , ’< The/.club has announced the bonus would be paid to the owner, of a horse winning the Marlboro • Cup (1400 m the Toorak-Handicap (1600 m and the Caulfield Ciip (2400 m all run at Caulfield
in September and October during its spring carnival. Last year the club offered a $250,000 bonus but it was not collected as only one horse, Bit of a Skite, was entered for all three and was unplaced in 'each.. ■ Nd horse has. won the treble since the Marlboro Cup formerly the Invitation Stakes, was introduced in 1951.
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Press, 24 April 1980, Page 2 (Supplement)
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