STAKES KEPT UP

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1049, 13 August 1930, Page 14

STAKES KEPT UP

SLIGHT DECREASES IN CLASSICS

AUCKLAND’S NEW PROGRAMME

A decision not to reduce the stakes for the new season, other than in classic events, as agreed upon last season, was made by the committee of the Auckland Racing Club yesterday, when the programmes for 1930-31 and for future classic races were approved. The reductions in stakes for classic t events, operating this season for the "V first time, are as follow: —Great North- £ ern Guineas, from £1,500 to £1.000: , Great Northern Derby, from £3,000 to £2,500; Royal Stakes, from £3,000 to £750; Great Northern St. Leger Stakes, from £I,OOO to £750. These reductions total £3,500, making the aggregate stakes for the season £57,050, compared with £58,550 last season, when division races caused the actual prize-money distributed to be increased to £59,000. The stakes for all handicap events and for classic races other than the four mentioned remain the‘same as for last season. Details of Prize-Money The prize-money for the Auckland Cup is £3,000; for the Great Northern * Steeplechase, £2,000; Great Northern Hurdle Race, £3,750; Auckland Racing Club Handicap, Easter Handicap, £4,500, plus sweepstake of £3O each for starters; Railway Handicap, £3,250, plus sweepstake of £lO eac/i for starters; Mitchelson Cup, £1,250; Great Northern Foal Stakes, £1,250; Welcome Stakes, £1,000; Summer Cup, £1,000; Grandstand Handicap, £1,000; Great Northern Champagne Stakes, £1,000; Autumn Handicap, £1,000; Cornwall Handicap, £1,000; Winter Steeplechase, £I,OOO. There will this season be 17 races of !? the value of £I,OOO or over, as com- * pared with 19 last season. The prize- . money is distributed among the meet- ' ings as follows:—Spring, £9,300 (£9,800 last season); summer, £23,850 ® (£24,600); autumn, £10,200 (£10,450); l winter, £13,700 (£13,700). J Hack Conditions Altered c Horses nominated for hack events 3 will now be able to run out their entries, and the maximum weight in 3 those events has been deleted. Hither- t to the conditions have read:- —“For * three-year-olds and upwards that have \ not won a flat race of the value of £250, j or flat races of the collective value of 1 £SOO at time of starting.” Now they have been altered to read “at time of nomination,” and the maximum weight of 9st has been abolished. The races affected are as follow: Spring meeting: First day, Gordon : Handicap, one mile; second day. Normanby Handicap, one mile; Hobson Handicap, seven furlongs. Summer meeting: First day, The Queen’s Plate, one mile (for which the set weights of three-year-olds Bst, four-year-olds and upward Bst 91b, with 51b allowance for mares are retained); Robinson Handi- i cap, seven furlongs; second day, Fer- \ gusson Handicap, one mile; Waitemata t Handicap, one and a-quarter miles £ (but the condition that no horse will be eligible which has at time of starting \ won a flat race of an advertised distance of more than seven furlongs is ] retained); third day, Ellerslie Handi- • cap, one mile; County Handicap, seven j furlongs; fourth day, Grey Handicap, one mile. Autumn meeting: First day, ] Eden Handicap, one mile; second day, l Nelson Handicap, one mile. j In the case of the three hack races 1 at the winter meeting, the Jervois Handicap, one mile, on the first day, and the Ranfurly Handicap, seven furlongs, and the Fitzroy Handicap, one mile, on the second day, the maximum weight of lost has been abolished. The Onehunga Steeplechase on the second day of the spring meeting will in future be open to horses eligible at time of nomination to run in hack steeplechases and to qualified hunters. Previously the conditions read:—“For horses that have not won a steeplechase of the value of £250 or steeplechases of the collective value of £SOO at time of nomination.” 1

MARTON FIXTURE

ENTRIES ON FRIDAY AN INTERESTING PROGRAMME The Marton Jockey Club will hold its spring meeting on Staurday, September 6. This fixture is always popular with Auckland owners, and it is likely that this year a large number will patronise the meeting, as it precedes the? Wanganui Jockey Club’s spring meeting on September 11 and 13. An attractive programme has been arranged, the chief event being the Marton Handicap, of £2OO, li miles. The Railway Handicap, of £l7O, 6 furlongs; the Tutaenui Hack Handicap, of £l3O. 1 mile and 137 yards: the Electric Hack Handicap, of £l3O, 5 furlongs; the Trial Plate, of £IOO, 6 furlongs, and the Spring Hack Cup, of £lio, including a silver cup valued at £ 20, 7 furlongs, are the other flat events. The Hunt Cup Steeplechase of £3 35 and silver cup, about 2 h miles, and the Rata Hack Hurdles, of £l3O, 1J miles, complete the programme. The Officials

Mr. H. Coyle (Wellington) is the handicapper, and Mr. A. Tronson (Auckland) is the judge, and Mr. C. O’Connor (Auckland) is the starter. Nominations for all events will close with the secretary. Mr. A. Way,’ Marton, at 9 p.m. on Friday next, August 15, and stabling and accommodation for horses at the club’s hostel and stables will be booked on application to the secretary.

NEW BLOOD

BRED IN AUSTRALIA MR. NELSON’S IMPORTATIONS The two horses. Lang Viridis and George Richmond, purchased by Wright. Stephenson and Company, Ltd., on behalf of Mr. L. W. Nelson at the sale of bloodstock on account of the estate of the late Mr. John Brown, arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday. George Richmond is a seven-year-old gelding by Richmond Main from Princess Simile and hang Viridis. is also a seven-year-old by X J rince Viridis from Sweet Cup. The horses were railed through to Whangarei yesterday afternoon. GONE TO QUEENSLAND INCONSISTENT EDEN HALL Mr. T. C. Trautwein, the New South Wales sportsman, has disposed of Eden Hall to a Queensland buyer. The Quin Abbey gelding won four races for his late owner, but proved very unreliable. All his wins on the other Mda were recorded at .Canterbury Park.