NEW ZEALAND FOLLOWED
Proposals by the stewards of the Jockey Club .designed to encourage the greater employment of apprentice riders were passed at a meeting of the club last month, says an English exchange. Apprentices will be permitted to claim 51b allowance in all selling races and in handicap sweepstakes to which not more than £500 is added for the winner, and in handicap plates of the advertised -value of not more than £500,' except in races confined to apprentices." They will-be able to claim the allowance, until they . have won forty races; (apprentice races being excepted),'and will not be debarred from claiming it after;the expiration of three years from "thei day of winning their first race in any country. Riders will not be allowed to wear spurs in apprenItice races. v '
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Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 20
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132NEW ZEALAND FOLLOWED Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 20
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