New Bonus Race for South Island Sale Graduates

Entries are now open for New Zealand Bloodstock's 2011 South Island Sale of Two-Year-Olds & Mixed Bloodstock which features the inaugural NZB Southern Bonus Race for graduates of the two-year-old session.

New Bonus Race for South Island Sale Graduates

Entries are now open for New Zealand Bloodstock's 2011 South Island Sale of Two-Year-Olds & Mixed Bloodstock which features the inaugural NZB Southern Bonus Race for graduates of the two-year-old session.

Scheduled to be held on 12 August in Christchurch this year, the South Island Sale has a new incentive race in which its graduates can battle it out for a bonus of $50,000.

All two-year-old graduates of the Sale are eligible to enter for the 2012 Southern Bonus Race which will be an open three-year-old event over 1400 metres at the Canterbury Jockey Club's Riccarton Park racecourse on Wednesday 14 November 2012.

For an entry fee of $250 plus GST, eligible sale graduates will have preference in field selection over non-qualified horses, with the $50,000 bonus awarded to the first NZB Southern Bonus Race eligible graduate to cross the finish line.

With the owner, trainer and vendor all getting a slice of the pie, of the $50,000 bonus $40,000 will be awarded to the owners of the horse on raceday, $5,000 to the trainer, and $5,000 to the owner of the horse at the time of sale.

Click here for the Southern Bonus Race Conditions of Entry.

Entry Fees for the South Island Sale are $700 plus GST for Two-Year-Olds and $400 plus GST for Mixed Bloodstock. Entries close Monday 16 May 2011.

For entry forms for New Zealand Bloodstock's 2011 South Island Sale (12 August at Canterbury Agricultural Park, Christchurch) email mailto:maryjane.harvey@nzb.co.nz or phone 09 298 0055.