Wellington stakes up

Press, 27 November 1979, Page 22

Wellington stakes up

PA Wellington Two feature races on the! second day of the Welling-! (ton Racing Club’s summer! i meeting, the Wellington Derby and the Dalgety Centennial Stakes have received further stakes increases. Earlier in the year, the Derby Stakes was announced; at $26,000 and the Dalgety} 1 at $15,000. But those have; • now been increased. I The Derby will now be! , worth $30,000 and the Dal- ; . gety $20,000. t Both races will be run on} 1 the second day of the Wei-; lington meeting at Trentham,; - January 21. i Interest in the Derby is s high at this point with the} 1 possible meeting of Little! > Brown Jug, New Zealand’s} »top-rated three-year-old, and 1 - the Australian-raced, New} ■ Zealand-bred filly, Brava > Jeannie. ■ I Brava Jeannie won the! >lOaks in Melbourne at her ;}most recent outing and she}} ’I has the Australasian! Derby as her next mission}! : late next month. The Wei- ; ; lington Racing Club though • plans to contact the filly’s ■ racing owner, Mr Spencer ’ Dawe, of Melbourne, in the • hope of bringing her to the ; country for the W.R.C. summer meeting.