SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 61, 1 August 1914, Page 4

SPORTING

AUCKLAND CUP, £2t>so. LEADING SPORTING EVENT IN THE DOMINION. Per Press Association. Auckland, Lost Night. Tie committee appointed t~ draw up tile programme for the meetings proP°*« to be held at Kllerslie jmder the au pices of the Auckland Racing Club during the comag M<uon ha, completed iU labors. As A Pwu.t of deliberations the prize Money for the season's racing has been increased by BrMj, wringing tie total «m for co,npetition to £42.C00. There

*re niaiT marked alterations. the most notable being in c< '.motion with the j Aueklun.l Cup. the \ of which has le*n rarscd from £2l .V ► to £2650, including a cap valued at f 1.59, so that it ha= now bctome the .< spotting event ln the Dominion. In nearly every instance the minor events have been bnilt ■p a»U there i< now no flat race in the dob'* programme of a less value than z2OO, and many of them are above thif •tandari, while th; smallest stake offered i* £l5O. Noteworthy features of the winter »eeti»g programme is that both the Great Northern Hurdie Baud and the Great Northern Steeplechase have beeil »i»ed from £IOOO to £1250 each. A pleating feature of the summer prop»mma ia that the stake for the Auckland Plate kaa been increased from £SOO to £OOO.