CENTENNIAL CUP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 8

CENTENNIAL CUP

STAKE OF £4OOO APPROVED DUNEDIN JOCKEY CLUB’S FEBRUARY MEETING The conditions attached to the Centenial Cup race to be run on the first day of the club’s centennial meeting, on February 26 and 28, 1948, were completed at a meeting of the committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club yesterday. Mr L. C. Hazlett was in the chair, and there were also present—Messrs C. N. Draper, A. Clark. K. Clark, W. H. Elliott, A. P. Greenfield, R. C B. Greenslade, W. Garrett, J. A. Gow, D. M. Reid, and Dr E. R. Harty.

The race, which will be known as the Dunedin Centennial Cup, will carry a stake of £4OOO and a cup valued at 200gns, the.winner to receive £2600 and the cup, the second horse £BOO, the third horse £4OO, and the fourth horse £2OO. The race is a handicap for three-year-olds and upwards over one mile and threequarters. The minimum weight is 7.0 and the maximum 9.12. Winners may be rehandicapped. The race will not be run in divisions. In the event of the number

of acceptors exceeding the safety number, a reduction in the number of starters will be made by elimination by ballot, if necessary, from all the horses on the minimum weight, and if required by elimination by ballot from all the horses equally weighted above the minimum weight. Permission to use the racecourse grounds for picnic purposes \yas granted to the Dunedin and Suburban Operative Eutchers’ Union on January 24, 1948, and to the Otago Harbour Board Picnic and Social Committee on March 13, 1948.

The financial statement was tabled, and accounts amounting to £1365 6s Id were passed for payment. It was reported that the balance of the sealing repair work of the main drive at the Wingatui racecourse had been completed. In view of necessary maintenance work carried out at the seven-furlong barrier area, it was decided to alter all sevenfurlong races on the programme of the meeting on December 26 and 27, 1947. to distances of six furlongs 142 yards.