PAKURANGA HUNT CLUB
LATEST SCRATCHINGS L Per Press Association. 1 AUCKLAND, Aug. 22. Pakuranga Hunt Club scratchings Dunedin Handicap. —Galilee, 4 p.m. Ladies’ Bracelet. —Santoft, 9 a.in. Auckland Handicap.—t Court Armj, 10.15 a.m. “RACING BANKRUPT’’ TRUTH OF SYDNEY STAKES. FEW WORTH-WHILE PRIZES. SYDNEY, Aug. 22. At the annual meeting ct the Australian Jockey Club, Mr. H. Campbell Jones said that prize-money should be increased and the number of clubs reduced. Small prizes, which are forcing owners, trainers, and jockeys into the betting ring and leaving them open to temptation, are the rock upon which racing in New South Wales is being wrecked. Mr. Jones, who declared that racing was bankrupt in New South Wales, pointed out that there were over a thousand horses in training. The training cost of each horse was oyer £5 a week, making a totai of over £5OOO a week. Yet these horses raced for prize-money, apart from the A.J.C. meetings, of from £l5OO to £lBOO a week. The chairman, Sir Colin Stephen, agreed that there was too much racing, but the prize-money could not be increased without larger attendances.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 4
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