Bonus scheme

The £1-million All-Weather Bonus scheme, which runs from October 21 to Good Friday, April 3 has returned, Arena Racing Company (ARC) announced on Monday. Runners at ARC's four all-weather tracks - Lingfield Park, Newcastle, Southwell and Wolverhampton - will compete for a range of bonus prizes, including five 'Horse of the Month' competitions and the overall £100,000 'Horse of the Year' title. The number of bonus money on offer has increased by £150,000 for 2025/26 - along with a change to the points system for the Horse of the Month...

GBBPLUS, an extension of the Great British Bonus, will reward owners and breeders with two new separate initiatives tackling the current challenges facing Flat and National Hunt racing. The latest incentive initiatives will kick off Jan. 1, 2025. "GBB was an important incentive and intervention step to encourage the breeding, buying, and racing of fillies," the Thoroughbred Breeders Association Chairman Philip Newton said. "Its success now gives us confidence that we can influence behaviour in two other areas of the racing programme: the vital retention of stamina within the thoroughbred...

A participation bonus program for owner and trainers at the four-day 2024 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga, which runs from June 6 through June 9, was announced by The New York Racing Association, Inc. Tuesday. Highlighted by the June 8 GI Belmont S June 8, the four-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will include 24 stakes races with purses totaling $10.25 million, the highest purse levels and number of stakes offered since the launch of the multi-day Festival in 2014. Owners will be eligible for a starter bonus for horses...

Adaay In Devon (GB) (Adaay {Ire}) collected her fourth bonus from Great Britain Bonus in a conditions stakes at Leiscester Tuesday, becoming the first Flat filly to accomplish the feat since the scheme launched in 2020. "Adaay In Devon has been a pleasure to train and we've been absolutely delighted with her progress," said trainer Rod Millman. After three runs and two placings, Adaay In Devon had her first win, including a £20,000 bonus, at Windsor Aug. 7 where the filly won convincingly in a Class 5 Maiden Fillies' S....

Cape Racing Sales has launched a new Bonus Structure and Pinhooking Programme. Beginning with the 2023 June Winter Sale, bonuses of R100,000 will be paid for the first juvenile win of any race, including open maiden races won by juveniles. The bonuses will be limited to the first 40 juvenile winners. Justin Vermaak, Racing Operations and Bloodstock Executive for Cape Racing said, "We are returning R4-million in cash bonuses to our valued clients over 40 races, which we feel is an adequate number of races considering the number of horses...