TROTTING £5l00 Easter Cup At Royal Meeting

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 5

TROTTING £5l00 Easter Cup At Royal Meeting

The £5lOO final of the Easter Cup will be the feature race at the meeting of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club to be attended by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at Addington Raceway on Saturday, April 23.

The visit of the Queen Mother to Addington Raceway was announced yesterday by the Minister of Internal Affairs (MrSeath).

Stakes totalling £29,500 would be distributed at the three meetings. The qualifying heats for trotters would all be run over 13 furlongs for a stake of £lOOO, while the final, over two miles, would carry a stake of £2OOO and a trophy valued at £5O. The heats for pacers would carry stakes of £1250 and would be run over 10 furlongs and two miles. The final would be run over 13 furlongs, said Mr Parker.

The Metropolitan club will now hold its Easter meeting on April 2, 9 and 23. The April 2 meeting will be held at night.

could be altered when the time of the Queen Mother’s visit had been announced. The Easter Cup and also the main race for trotters would be run on a similar style to the Inter-Dominion Championship series, said Mr Parker. Two heats for both pacers and trotters would be run on April 2 and 9, with the horses gaining most points qualifying for the two finals.

The club had decided to start the meeting on April 23 at 11 a.m., said the secretary of the club (Mr D. C. Parker) yesterday, but that

The starting gate will be used for six races during the neeting, one event being the JJew Zealand Trotting Stakes, which this year will be run over 13 furlongs.