A CONTRAST IN STAKES
Although stakes on the whole are now much bigge* than they were 30 or 40 years ago, there are 'cases in which the present ottering compares very fstrangfly with what was provided •■ in the distant past. . As an example, the 41st C.J.C. Challenge Stakes, recently won by Fracas, was worth £210 to the winner, yet when it'was instituted in 1893 it was worth £1520 to tl>o winner. The second race was worth £16J.7. The subscription-in those days, 1 however,' was 23 guineas. The fir*'t two1 Challenges were won by Mr. D. O'Brien's Loyalty and Mr. G. G. Stead's' Blue I 'Fire respectively. The first year the distance was six furlongs, but the next year and' bines it has been seven furlongs. | When Mannlicher won the third race I for Mr. Stead tho stake had been clipped Ito £1000 and the subscription reduced to 10 soys: In years since the stake has tended to decline in amount till it has reached its low level of the present season.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 8
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171A CONTRAST IN STAKES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 8
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