Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 - 1916), Thursday 12 March 1896, page 13


SPORTING. CAULFIELD CUP INCREASED TO £2500. A NEW RACE.—THE FUTURITY STAKES. (BY TELEGRAPH.) MELBOURNE, March 10. An important meeting of the V.A.T.C. was held to-day, when it was decided to increase the prize for the Caulfield Cup from £2000 to £2500, and to introduce a new race en-titled "The Caulfield Futurity Stakes," of 300 sovs. This race will be run over the mile course, and will not be introduced till the Autumn of 1897. Horses of both sexes and all ages are to be eligible, and entries of foals, which at the time of the race will be two years old, will be made next June. The entry will cost the breeder nothing, as first payments are not due until after his yearlings have been submitted to auction at the annual sale; but a breeder who enters the winner, should the race be carried off by a 2-year-old, will receive a prize. The race will be a handicap one. Opals found in the Norseman district have been described as "good road metal." These arrogant prospectors and miners will be paving their highways with diamonds before they are quite satisfied. The Tantanoola tiger is still fiercely bounding around Victoria. One week the ubiquitous animal is in Byaduk, the next in Gippsland, and the next in Benalla, in the North-eastern district. No tiger of ordinary speed could get over the country in this fashion, and it is suggested that, being an up-to-date modernised man-eater, the brute has taken to a bicycle.