STAKES CUT DOWN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 9

STAKES CUT DOWN.

t Auckland Club Reviews i Programme. i DROP OF £IOOO IN BIG RACE. t o Per Press Association. J AUCKLAND, August 14. a. Owing to a serious drop in all rev- = enue last season the Auckland Racing e Club has decided to make a drastic ree duction in stake money for the spring - meeting and also in the principal hane dicaps at the summer meeting. t The total prize money for the spring - meeting has been reduced from £3300 to £7300. The principal reductions are 'j in the Mitchelson Cup, which is now _ £IOOO, and the Welcome Stakes, £650. The Auckland Cup at the summer ~ l meeting will be reduced from £3OOO to j £2OOO, the Railway Handicap from £1250 ,to £IOOO, the Summer Cup from £IOOO to £BSO, the Racing Club Handicap from £ISOO to £IOOO, the Grandstand Handicap from £IOOO to £BSO. Weight-for-age races remain the same as last season, but the remainder of the summer programme will be considered after the spring meeting. TOTE FIGURES DROP. A decrease of £10,593 10s was recorded in the totaiisator turnover at Riccarton yesterday, as compared with the same day last j f ear. The figures for the second day of the » C.J.C. meeting are as follows: [ 1931 £24,941 10 0 , 1930 £35,541 0 0 i An all-round drop has occurred in ■ totaiisator returns this year. The de- , crease#for the previous three days’ ! - racing of National Week was £22.252.