Murray Bridge Cup Shake Up

Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00

One of South Australia's feature staying events has had its distance slashed and prizemoney increased for its 2002 running next month.

The listed Murray Bridge Gold Cup, which will be run on Saturday September 28, is now worth $60,000, of which the winner will received over $40,000 plus a trophy.

This year's race will be run over 1600 metres, shortened some 800 metres from last year's distance of 2400 metres.

Last year's running of the race was won by the Victorian visitor Fraar Magic, who got up to beat the local outsider Accelerating in the shadows of the post.