HEAVY STAKE REDUCTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20979, 16 September 1931, Page 7

HEAVY STAKE REDUCTIONS.

WELLINGTON SPRING RACES. TOTAL CUT OF £2600. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.I WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Wellington 'Racing Club Ims made the following reductions in stakes for the spring meeting, Inst year s stakes being in parentheses:— Glen Hurdles, £2OO (£350); Tnita Handicap, £IOO (£200); Wainui Handicap. £250 (£100); Rimutakti Handicap. £1(X) (£2GO); Wellington Handicap, £SOO (£750); W ellesley Stakes, £750 (£1000) ; Shorts Handicap, £2.jo (£100) • October Handicap, £IOO ( £ - r,0 . ) • Kona Hurdles. £2OO (£300); Spring Trial Stakes, £IOO (£200); Tararua Handicap. £IOO (£200); Roseneath Handicnp, £250 (£400); Pcareo Handicap, £350 (£500); Harcourt Cup. £soO x (£1000); Nuinai Handicap. £250 (iMOO); Ruahine Handicap. £IOO (£200). The reductions total £2OOO. TROTTING HORSE STOLEN. INCIDENT IN MELBOURNE. TAKEN FROM POLICE DEPOT. Somo consternation • has been caused among Victorian trotting officials by the mysterious theft of the* trotting gelding Landmark, which was seized by the officials at a Melbourne suburban trotting meeting on August 17. The trotter since then had been under police guprd, whom the thieves outwitted. The owner of Landmark is Mr. J. A. Dempsey, of New South Wales. The tiheit took place at the St. Kildu Road police depot. OWNERSHIP OF RED LION. ADJOURNMENT OF INQUIRY. An inquiry into (he ownership and training of Ked Lion between the time he was pold by Messrs. J. C. and P. S. (ileeson, of Auckland, and his entry into A. Cook's stable at Te Awaniutu. was commenced by the Auckland district committee oil Monday and "was adjourned until next Tuesday. Red Lion, who cost Messrs. Glecson 1001"' guineas as a yearling and won only one race for tliem, was twico successful at the Tauruarunui meeting at Ellerslie last. July, racing in the ownership of Mr. P. Livingstone und being trained by Cook. PETERWAH'S PROGENY. WINNERS IN WELLINGTON. The American sire Peterwah was well represented in the straight-out trotters' events at the Wellington meeting last Sat; iiiday. both Great Way. winner of the Nai Nai Handicap, and Wah, winner of the Wilford Handicap, being sired by him. These two are endowed with fine speed, but they are lacking in solidness, otherwise they would have been racing in better company ere this. Medway, dam of Great Way, was bred in Australia, being by Rock Huon from Redbook, but while she possessed speed, she was vmreliablo in her races. As a two-year-old Great Way was purchased by Nfessrs. Bridgcn Brothers, of Auckland for four figures, but after failing to win in his first few stalls, ho was acquired by Mrs. E. Berryniah, of Wellington, for a, hundred less, and was plnced in C. S. Donald's charge. As a threo-year-old. Great Way dead-heated with Great Nelson in the Foibury Park Trotting Stakes, a race which Peterwah won in 19*2-1. and for which he holds the timo record of 3m 36 3-ss. Wah, who was got from the Harold Dillon mare Amy Dillon, raced successfully as a three-year-old for his breeder, 11. C. Fiskcn. who shortly afterwards sold him to Mr. Morgan O'Brien, of Christchureh. Placed in W. J. Tomkinson's hands, Wah soon showed marked ability on the tracks, but ho seldom reproduced it with the colours up. Last, season he was transferred to the charge of S. A. Eagan, of Blenheim, and fiticceeded in winning on Saturday and defeating a warm favourite. King's Guarjl. TROTTING FIXTURES. October 3—Met.hven Trotting Club. October 10—New Brighton Trotting Club. Ocfober 10 —Waikato Trotting Club. October 21. 2G—Auckland Trotting Club.