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Racing NSW Inject a Further $20 Million Prize-Money | 2 | Thursday, February 25, 2021 JO MCKINNON SPEAKS TO premier power WOODSIDE PARK'S MARK INGLIS PREMIER YEARLING ROWSTHORN SALE SUPPLEMENT 2021 Your ultimate guide from our team of experts - PAGE 22 Thursday, February 25, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here TREVOR MARSHALLSEA | IT'S IN THE BLOOD - PAGE 20 INGLIS PREMIER PINHOOKERS - PAGE 27 Racing NSW inject a Read Tomorrow's Issue For Maiden Of The Week further $20 million What's on Metropolitan meetings: Eagle Farm (QLD) Race meetings: Wyong (NSW), Kilmore (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Bunbury (WA), prize-money Pukekohe (NZ) New metropolitan Midway races and boost to Epsom Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Pukekohe (NZ), Handicap part of increases across the board Burrumbeet (VIC) International meetings: Southwell (UK), Meydan (UAE) International Group races: Meydan (UAE) - Nad Al Sheba Trophy (Gr 3, 2810m), Dubai Millennium Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m), Meydan Classic (Listed, 1600m) MORNING BRIEFING NSW trainer’s three-year disqualification over horse deaths stood aside BY TIM ROWE Probabeel, winner of last year's Epsom Handicap SPORTPIX Leading Southern NSW trainer Trevor Sutherland has had a three-year disqualification thrown Among the changes is the creation of out by the Racing NSW Appeal Panel relating to BY ALEX WILTSHIRE | @ANZ_NEWS a new tier of race staged on metropolitan the euthanasia of two retired racehorses he had acing NSW yesterday announced Saturday racecards, to be named Midway re-homed to a third party prior to their death. increases in annual prize-money races, while prize-money levels for several Wagga-based Sutherland was yesterday in the to the tune of $20 million, in a Group races, including the Epsom Handicap process of re-applying for his trainer’s licence show of further investment to the (Gr 1, 1600m), will see significant after the appeal victory following six months on racingR industry from the state’s governing body. increases. Continued on page 2>> the sidelines. Continued on page 17>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Racing NSW inject a further $20 million prize-money | 2 | Thursday, February 25, 2021 << Continued from page 1 The Midway Races will feature as “These increases part of Saturday metropolitan racecards, taking the number of races on a broaden the spread of WE HAVE TO HAVE standard card to ten. They will be open exclusively to horses from small to prize-money and further RELATIVITY ON OUR PRIZE- mid-sized NSW metropolitan and provincial stables, with races carrying improve the dividends MONEY AND WE NEED TO a total purse of $100,000, and eligibility determined on a point-scoring back to our owners and MAKE SURE THAT OUR system with trainers assessed on the number and level of race winners participants. We also TRADITIONAL AND TIME- trained by them in the previous year. want to make sure that HONOURED RACES DON’T Increases to prize-money levels will be implemented across our traditional spring LOSE OUT the spectrum of racing in New South Wales, with prize-money for feature races continue to - PETER V'LANDYS Saturday metropolitan races increased by $5,000 to $130,000, while the attract quality fields and metropolitan TAB Highway races for country-trained horses will be maintain their prize-money relativity.” bolstered to $100,000, from its current level of $75,000. Racing NSW CEO, Peter V'landys, said the introduction of Midway Country racing will be the biggest recipient of the increases, with a total races to metropolitan racedays will offer smaller trainers the opportunity investment of $5,200,000, as minimum prize-money for TAB country races to bolster their stables. will see increases of $2,000, to $24,000, while 20 country race meetings will “The idea actually came from the trainers, it was Richard Freedman be elevated to Showcase status, with races carrying prize-money of $30,000. who put this to me some years ago,” said V’landys. Prize-money on the country racing circuit has increased $58 million “The country have their specialized races, the Highway race, but provincial since 2012, with the total on offer now standing at more than $91 million. and those metropolitan trainers that are in the smaller or mid-stream, they The changes will take effect from July 1, 2021. don’t get that opportunity every week. So now they have their opportunity to In announcing the new changes, Racing NSW chairman, Russell procure owners, because there’ll be a $100,000 race each week for those stables. Balding, said: “We are pleased to be able to announce this significant “The objective of the Midway Races is to build the competitiveness of increase in prize-money which will benefit country races as well as the small to mid-sized stables, and further develop the field sizes and quality Saturday metropolitan race meeting each week. for metropolitan racing.” Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by AMERICAN PHAROAH - New Group 1 winner Café Pharoah become his third Gr.1 winner t when scoring in the February Stakes-Gr.1 at Tokyo on Sunday. His others are Van Gogh (Criterium International-Gr.1 for 2YO’s by 4 lengths) and Harvey’s Lil Goil Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S.-Gr.1 on turf). FASTNET ROCK - More Group 1 horses ❝… Rocket Spade won Saturday's G2 Avondale Guineas and is now second favourite for next month's G1 New Zealand Derby... Fastnet Rock's biggest star in New Zealand is of course the seven-time Group 1 winner Avantage [3 Gr.1 wins in 2021]. … Back in Australia Parure looks a filly of considerable promise, having seen off the boys to win the [Group 2] Autumn Classic in style… Group 1 targets await later in the autumn… Chequerboard put her staying credentials on the board with her comfortable win [in the Tasmanian Oaks-L.]. Chequerboard may also head to Adelaide for a race like the G1 Schweppes Oaks…❞ TDN AUS/NZ, 23RD FEB. 2021 SO YOU THINK - Another potential Group winner Following on from the recent big wins for the 3YO colts Poland, Peltzer and Rocketing By, his Group-placed daughter Nimalee won well at Rosehill on Saturday. ❝It was a very good return... She’ll run most likely in the Gr.3 Aspiration Quality in a couple of weeks.❞ MATTHEW SMITH, TRAINER OF NIMALEE PIERRO - More top-class performances On Saturday Sacramento won the Parramatta Cup-L. at Rosehill, while at Caulfield his triple Gr.1 winner Arcadia Queen was second in the Futurity Stakes-Gr.1. Then on Sunday his Hong Kong Derby winner Furore was beaten only a short head by Golden Sixty in the Hong Kong Gold Cup-Gr.1. WATCH OUT FOR THE PROGENY OF OUR SIRES AT THE MELBOURNE PREMIER YEARLING SALE! Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Racing NSW inject a further $20 million prize-money | 4 | Thursday, February 25, 2021 << Continued from page 2 The time-honoured Epsom Handicap, won most recently by Probabeel (Savabeel) last year and which also includes Winx (Street Cry), Desert War (Desert King) and Super Impose (Imposing) on its roll of honour, will have prize-money boosted by $500,000, to $1.5 million, among several upgrades to the Everest carnival in the spring. In addition, Racing NSW announced a bonus prize of $1 million for any horse that wins the Craven Plate (Group 3, 2000m) and Rosehill Gold Cup (2000m) in the same year, with each race seeing an increase of $250,000 to its prize fund, taking both to a purse of $750,000. The Villiers Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m), inaugurated in 1892, will see it’s prize-money treble, receiving an increase of $500,000, while the Flight Peter V'landys RACING NSW Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), will receive an increase $250,000, a move that V’landys says will bring prize-money for these traditional races in line “We were in unknown territory last year when the pandemic hit, we with with newly-created spectacles possessing lucrative prize pots. didn’t know how long it was going to last, and what effect it would have on “We have to have relativity on our prize-money and we need to make sure our revenues, so we had to take a conservative approach,” V’landys said. “We that our traditional and time-honoured races don’t lose out,” V’landys said. restructured prize-money until we saw what the pandemic was going to do to “I think we’ve just rectified this to bring (prize-money levels) back and our revenue streams. relative to these new races.” “It certainly didn’t have as big an effect as we thought. It had an effect The newly-announced increases are a far cry from at this stage last year, on the race clubs, but the betting turnover increased dramatically over when racing bodies across the country were forced into implementing that period. So we were able to generate more revenue than expected and, reductions in prize-money levels due to the outbreak of Covid-19 and like any organisation, we turn those revenues back to our participants. V’landys said that Racing NSW had emerged from the pandemic in a “If we were a public company, our dividends are prize-money and strong position, allowing for these prize-money increases to take place. they can all compete to get that prize-money.” Race Name Prize - money from 1 July 2021 Annual Increase Aggregate ($) Epsom Handicap $1,500,000 $500,000 975,000 Villiers Stakes $750,000 $500,000 820,500 Flight Stakes $750,000 $250,000 740,500 Craven Plate $750,000 $250,000 719,000 Rosehill Gold Cup $750,000 $250,000 575,000 New Spring feature races x 2 $500,000 each $1,000,000 541,500 Lead up to The Hunter and The Gong $200,000 each $400,000 327,000 Bonus for winning both the $1,000,000 $1,000,000 231,000 Craven Plate and Rosehill Gold Cup.
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