AUCKLAND STAkES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 4

AUCKLAND STAkES

Prize-money to Jthe, value of £4250 will be distributed at the Auckland Trotting Club's- February Meeting,- ?to be held at Alexandra Park, Epsom;: on February 10 and 14. The principal handicap race on the first day, ' the Otahuhu Handicap, carries ;a stake oi £400, the (distance being reduced: from two miles to a mile and a i half * with a limit of 13.24. . '• i*-

The Alexandra Park Handicap* the main item on the second day,- is also worth...£4oo.and is, rim over two;miles, with a 4.34 limit. Other events* .for pacers of the"higher grade :are>'" the Papakura Handicap^of £275^ 1% miles, 3.27 class, and the Farewell 'Handicap, of £275, .1J rhiles, 2.48 class., run on the first and second day respectively. The Great Northern Centennial Trotting Derby, of £500, li miles, .••; will be contested the first day, .and on the second day two-year-olds will; have their first race of the season in the Great Northern Trotting Stakes, f £400, 1 mile. The final payment for these two races is due with the "secretary, Mr. A. E. Forrest, • on Friday, January 26, which is also,the date for receivings entries for all ■ other events on" the' programme.C;.^iS.v^-:\ft:''/..-v^v^^i: