NEW TAKAPUNA RACES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1933, Page 4

NEW TAKAPUNA RACES

POPULARITY OF PLATES

The success that has attended the Takapuna Jockey Club'in connection with the Takapuna. Plate, and later the Wynyard Plate, has induced the Committee' to go a step further, and last week a decision was made to add two further such races to the programmes for next season. The Takapuna Plate and the Wynyard Plate are decided at the. Spring and Summer Meetings respectively. : They are for hacks,, and are run at special weights over seven furlongs. Now-it-is-proposed to substitute the Pupuke Plate, of 300 soys nine furlongs, at the Spring Meeting, for the Pupuke Hack Handicap, and the Devonport Plate, of 300 soys, nine ' furlongs, at the Summer Meeting, for the .Hauraki Hack Handicap. The conditions will be the same as for the Takapuna and Wynyard Plates, and these' events will be run.oh the second day of the meetings mentioned.' The winner of the Takapuna Plate, which is run on the first day of the Spring Meeting, will have to carry a penalty, to be decided later, if started in the Pupuke Plate, and the winner of the Wynyard Plate will'also have to carry a penalty for the Devonport Plate. The club has also decided to increase fj?kes in _the. Takapuna . Plate and the Wynyard Plate, from 275 soys to 300. soys. The club has also in view the question of increasing the stakes generally for next season; . .