South Australian Country Trainers Welcome Subsidy
- Friday, 15 November 2002 00:00
Country trainers have welcomed the most which they said was overdue. Any horse which finishes out of a place at a country meeting would receive a $60 subsidy.
Trevor Trenowden, one of the state's leading country trainers who is based on the Far West Coast at Ceduna, was pleased with the announcement.
"It's nice for this subsidy to finally come through," Trenowden said. "We have been lobbying officials in the city for a long while."
Trenowden said the move would help to alleviate some of the excessive costs faced by country trainers.
"Trainers in the country are really up against it," he said. "Out here the feed is more expensive, there's extra travel and of course our stakes are so much lower."
The $60 subsidy, which is understood to have been mooted for a number of years, will start immediately according to TRSA Racing Manager Ian Hart.
"A $60 unplaced subsidy will be paid to non prizemoney earning horses at Non-TAB meetings," Mr Hart announced.
"This is in addition to existing float rebates particular clubs offer."
"This unplaced subsidy will support the efforts of the smaller clubs and provide some reward for connections of horses racing at the lower levels of competition," he added.
Ironically Trenowden's home club of Ceduna will be the first club who will be able to offer the subsidy.
Ceduna will be holding the next non-TAB meeting in South Australia on Saturday December 14.
Other clubs set to benefit from today's news will be Tumby Bay, Lock, Kimba, Streaky Bay, Penong, Hawker, Quorn, Clare (during Easter) and Kangaroo Island.
