D.B. Series Final this season worth $60,000

Press, 11 August 1983, Page 32

D.B. Series Final this season worth $60,000

G. K. YULE

The final of the D.B. Flying Fillies Series, which this season will be run at Addington Raceway, will carry a stake of about $66,000, an increase of almost $20,000 over the $42,500 paid last May. The race will receive an extra $ll,OOO by way of subsidy from the Racing Authority, which will also pay an extra sponsorship subsidy of $lO,OOO. “Normally such a large subsidy is not payable to a race in which sustaining payments are involved,” said a spokesman for the authority. “This race is different from the usual in that it is run between Alexandra Park and Addington.”

Heats of the D.B. Series will carry stakes of at least $12,000 this season, an increase of $l5OO over 1982-83. There will be an increase of one, to eight heats, this season, the extra one being allocated to the Marlborough Trotting Club, which will introduce mobile starting at its meeting on February 4 and 6. The other heats, to be run between February and April, will be held at meetings of the Invercargill, Forbury Park, Timaru, Canterbury Park, Morrinsville,

Cambridge and Thames clubs, with the final being run by the Metropolitan club at Addington Raceway on May 5. A sizeable number of group races will receive subsidies this season. The amount will be based on the money contributed towards the stakes by the various clubs for the same races last season.

The new races have been decided on after consultation between the authority and the Trotting Conference, and the reclassification of the grading of races. Also, restrictions placed on programmes to be run this season by the nearbankrupt Wellington Trotting Club have meant that some special subsidy money is available for redistribution.

The Wellington club will not be allowed to cater for horses assessed at faster than C 5 other than at the Wellington Cup meeting in January when , the feature races will cater for C 7 to C 9 horses under restricted free-for-all conditions.

It has been estimated that the savings in stakes will be greater than $20,000. Races such as the Cardigan Bay

Stakes will not be run in the - meantime and programmes ; will cater mainly for horses «. assessed at from CO to C 3. ~ Provided clubs contribute .. the same amount towards 7 the stakes for'the newlysubsidised races as they did last season, the following Z; minimum prize-money will ~ apply to the. feature races ’ listed:— . *

Metropolitan club: N.Z. Sires’ Produce, $24,500 (up $8000); Metropolitan Three- " year-old Championship, Z $23,000 (up $7500); Firestone ’ Flying Stakes, $21,575 (up $6325); Fillies’ Triple Crown, $8750 (up $2750); Courier . Systems Stakes, $14,000 (up - $3500). _ Auckland club: IZB All- ■

Rounder, $23,000 (up $3000); McCarthy Ladyship Stakes, $13,000 (up $3000). Morrinsville Club: Juvenile Stakes, $14,525 (up $2525). Forbury Park club: T.H.C. Four-year-old Championship, $17,600 . (up $4450); Juvenile Stakes, $9OOO (up $2500). Invercargill club: South-

land Oaks, $BOOO (up $2000). ; New Brighton club: D.B. J Four-year-old Final, $20,000 - (up $4750); Celebrity Stakes, ZZ( $Bl5O (up $2150). Te Awamutu Club: Juven- Z ile Pace, $8225 (up $2525). Z-