BIG MONEY

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 11

BIG MONEY

Stakes Given At Ellerslie

(From "Truth's" Special Auckland Hep,) V '■ THE A.R.C, programme for this * season provides for no fewer than £66,650 m stake-money, which is £850 more than for the season just closed. •THE! value of the St. Leger goes up JL from £700 to £1000, while the, Brighton Hurdles next autumn will be worth. £650, which is £50 more than last autumn. The Winter Steeplechase will carry, the large increase qf £500, and is to be wprth £15Q0 next June. "' • ' , The Carbine Plate decided at the winter fixture is once again to be tried with gentlemen riders, while the distance ffoes back from ten furlongs to a mile, The Gordon. Handicap at the spring fixture is to be open for ajU horses of the hack class, not as of late years for horses that had not won a flat race of the value of £50 or flat races of the collective value of £250, It is now fop horses' that have not won a race worth £250 or races of the collective value of £500. The new Gordon Handicap conditions dp away with anything approaching a "maiden" or "trial" so far as A.R.O. racing is concerned.