THEN AND NOW
The £7500 New* Zealand Tfottiug Cup decided at Addington last Saturday luld its beginning in the Ncac Zealand Handicap of £150, main event at the 1901 1 meeting of the New Zealand Metropoli-
tan Trotting Club. This event, which was for horses that could do Iive niinutes or better, was changed in 1903 to the Champion Handicap, which was a 4min. 48sec. class race with a stake of £300. In 1904 it was reuamed the Now Zealand Cup Handicap, and since that dato it has not been changed. Tlie class for the first cup was 4min. 50sec., and the stake £310. Monte C'arlo, which .was described as "the hero • ■ of 100 stubbornly . contested races, tyon in ;4min. 44 3-5aec. from ^■drrcfT. Y^iicri lat'er. left ;he'rilnark as a brood maVe. ' 5 ' • ' The stake gradually rose, and in 1909 ' ' Spet'tatar writing in the Referee, said:>, •' A.VW in. tkeif .'Tcildest "flrghts of faiicv could hkye d'reaiUed jbi: the sport becomihg so populat in SitcTi H eompara- , tively i'ew yeuTs A '; . 1 The ehief face, ' the Ne\v Zealand Onp, carries a -stake Uf*£7G0.-"- -In this ycar tlie Cup was for , horses that could do better than 4min. | 45see. The Cup this year was restricted to 4.20 .class horses -or better.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1946, Page 6
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209THEN AND NOW Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1946, Page 6
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