TURF IN AUSTRALIA
TOO MUCH RACING. PRIZE MONEY INSUFFICIENT. ■at HIGH COST OF TRAINING. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright SYDNEY, August 22. At the annual meeting of the Australian Jockey Club, Air Campbell Jones 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 the rock upon which racing in New South Wales is being wrecked.” Air Jones, who declared that racing was bankrupt, pointed out that there were over one thousand horse,s .in training, and the training cost ofjeadh ) F ~ horse was over £5 a week, making a total of £SOOO a week, and yet ihese horses race for prize money, apart from the Australian Jockey Club meetings, of from £'lsoo to £IBOO a week. The chairman, Sir Colin Stephen, agreed that there was too much racing, tout the prize money -could not be increased without larger attendances.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19662, 23 August 1935, Page 8
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