AUCKLAND PROGRAMME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 15

AUCKLAND PROGRAMME.

FOR SPRING MEETING.

SLIGHT REDUCTION IN STAKES.

In view of the marked slump in totalisator betting during the recent months, it was expected that when the committee of the Auckland ' Trotting Club drew up their programmes for the present season there would be made a free use of the pruning knife when the stake money was being allotted. The committee yesterday approved of the programme for the spring meeting, and this fixture is really the meeting corresponding with that of the Otahuhu Club held last October. In making a comparison it is found that, the present financial stringency being considered, the committee of the A.T.C have been very generous to owners, as the stake money for the meeting to be held on October 25 and 27 next is only £3-50 less than that given by the OtaLuhu Club in the spring of last season. The principal event each day has been reduced from £700 to £600, and in four instances stakes have been reduced by £50, while in one case, the Papatoeioe Handicap on the second day, there is a £50 increase. The total prize money allotted 13 £4550, of which £22-50 is attached to the first day, and £2300 to the second. The complete programme is given below: —

FISST DAT, OCTOBER 25. Introductory Handicap of 200sovs, one mile and a half, unhoppled trotters, limit 3.43, for horses who hare never won a race better than f.23 to "the mile at time of starting. Mount Eden Handicap of 200sovs, one mile and a quarter, limit 3.0. Spring Handicap of 600sovs, two miles, .limit- 4.33, for horses who have done or been hancßcapped to do 4.35 or better at time of nomination.

Onehnnga Handicap of 200sovs, two miles, limit 4.30: October Handicap of 250 soys, two miles, unhoppled trotters, limit 4.43. Masser Memorial Handicap ,of 300sovs, one mile and a qnarter, limit 2.50. Grey Lynn Handicap of 200sovs, one mile and a half, limit 3.32. Orakei Handicap of 230sovs, one mile, limit 2.10.

SECOND DAT, OCTOBER 27. Innovation Handicap of 2Qosovs, two miles, nnhoppled trotters, limit 5.0,- for horses who have never "won a race at better than 2.23 to the mile at time of starting. Devonport Handicao of one mile and a half, limit 3.32, for horses who have done 2.24 to the mile and not won in better thai* 2.17 at time of nomination. - - - Handicap of 600sovs. two miles, limit 4.:>3. for horses who have done or been handicapped to do 4.35 or better at time of nomination. Franklin Handicap of 250sovs, two miles, limit 4.35. Visitors' Handicap of 250sovs, two miles, unhoppled trotters, limit 4.42. Whitford Handicap of SOOsovs, one mile and a quarter, limit 2.49. Papatoetoe Handicap of 250sovs, two miles, limit 4.44. Eoval Oak Handicap of 250sovs, saddle, one mile, limit 2J.7.

One of the best free-legged pacers at present in Australia is Amazing Don, another of the Don Pronto family. When Mr. Simpson was in Auckland a few years back with several Jiorses, aIL of them being for sale, Amazing Don was one of the young ones of "the team, but nobody wanted to buy him.