SOMETHING LIKE A PROGRAMME.
JEarly thfe month — an the 6*-h, to be exact — the time will expire for the making of nominations for the minor events of rha A.J.C. spring meeting, which is to be disposed of on October 2, 4, 6, and 9, and horse-owners ar a distance should be careful to remember it. We may not bs. abk to boast (says the Sydney Telegraph) of our Melbour <c Cup, with it* 5000sovb, butthe A.J.C. Is no on"-eicnt programme; and, as will be gathered elsewhere, it literally bristles with tit-bir». Owners whose " representatives are not quite of sufficient calibre to got their expenses out of weight-for-a.H:e'rac?b have a liberal array of handicaps placed at their disposal. The best of horses have Three wcight-for-age races arranged for their benefit, to each of which the ciub adds 1000 mm s;^ and nowhere cfee in the Commonwealth is that to bs found. But if the V.R.C. has 5000sovs added to it's Melbourne Cup, our Derby of 300&50vs add>;d is ths richest in the Commonwealth, and the A.J.C. gives 1500so\s to Epsom Handicap, 300050v6 to Metropolitan, and 1500sovs to Breeders' Plate. With sudh an assortment a? this it might be supposed that all the good things are exhausted, but there are other plunw availab.e in tho following list, for which entries are to remain open until the date stated. A glance at the programme will bo sufficient •o show that there is nothing shoddy associated with it Tho squib is net catere* fcr, his place is elsewhere, and he ;s; s not wanted ; but despite tht unavoidable clash . with the Caulfield Cup meeting it^-seems quite fair to anticipate that the A.J.C. programme will be found attractive enough to entice Victoria's best once more to Randwick. Awaiting patronage are the following: — First day: Hurdle Race, 300 soys added, about two miles; Trial Stakes.300sovs added, one mile and a-quarter. Spring- Stake 8 , lOOOsovs added, one mil and a-ha!f ; Kensington Handicap, 300so\a - added, seven furlongs. Second day • Shorts, 500sovs added, six furlongs; Nev Stakes. 600scvs added, one mile one fui - long; Firit Steep!eohase, 300sovs added, about two mi lee and a-half ; Squatters' Handicap, 40Qsovs added, one mile and aquarter. Third day : Second Hurdle Race.
300sovs added, about two miles and a-haJf ; Craven Pkute, lOOOsovs added, one mile and a-quarter; Suburban Handicap, 400sovs added, one mile; Grantfoan Stakes, 508sov8 added, one mile; Sydney Handicap, 50030VS added, one mile and a-half. Fourth day: High weight Handicap, 300£0.s added, six furlongs; Waverley Handicap, 500soys~ added, one snile and three-quarters ; Dwwling Steeplechase, 400sovs added, about three miles; Members' Handicap, SOOsovs added, one mile* and one furlong; Randwksk Pkute, lOOOsovs added, two miles; Fins] Handicap, 300sovs added, -one mile and a-quarter.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 54
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