Prize money will be increased from $2400 to $4000 for this year’s SA Country Cup heats, to be run at Murray Bridge (530 m – Friday, September 20), Mount Gambier (512 m – Sunday, September 29) and Gawler (531 m – Sunday, September 29).

And the final of the $8500 SA Country Cup will be run at Angle Park over 530 metres on Adelaide Cup final night, Friday, October 11, as a G-SIX event.

The Mount Gambier Club will be permitted to include non-SA trainers provided the interstate trainer has had starters at 10 Mount Gambier meetings in the previous 12 months and the interstate trainer has trained the greyhound nominated for the previous two months.

Applying to all tracks is that the greyhound must have started at least twice in the past 12 months at the track it is attempting to represent.

There will be a maximum of two heats per club with the winners of each heat qualifying. If there is only one heat conducted then the first two placegetters will qualify.