AUSTRALIAN RACING
MEMBER’S VIEWS ON STAKES. LARGER PRIZE MONEY WANTED .United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright; Received 1 p.m. SYDNEY, To-day. At the annual meeting of the Australian Jockey Club Mr H. CampbeliJones said the prize money should be increased and the number of clubs reduced. Small prizes, which are forcing owners and trainers and jockeys into the betting ring and leaving them open to temptation, is a rock upon which racing in Now South Wales is being wrecked. Mr Jones, who declared that racing was bankrupt, pointed cut that there were over 1000 horses in training, and the training cost of each horse was over £5 a week, making a total of £SOOO a week. Yet these horses race for prize-money—apart from the A.J.C. meetings—of from £ISOO to £IBOO a week. The chairman, Sir Colin Stephen, agreed that there was too much racing, but the prizemoney could not- be increased without larger attendances.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 August 1935, Page 4
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154AUSTRALIAN RACING Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 August 1935, Page 4
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