AUCKLAND RACING CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1322, 26 August 1915, Page 18

AUCKLAND RACING CLUB.

The Auckland Racing Club’s programme committee have decided upon the racing even.s for the season now entered upon, and will give in stakes during the year uie sum of £42,550, made up as follows: —Spring, £6850; summer, £18,950; autumn, £7750; winter, £9OOO. At the spring meeting the tour hack races and the Hunters’ Steeples have each been increased in value from £l3O to £2OO, and the Welcome Stakes raised from £650 to £750, making a total increase for the meeting of £450. The only alteration in the summer’ programme is the raising of the County Handicap from £4OO to £5OO. Turning to the autumn meeting, the initial alteration is in connection with the title of the opening event, the Tradesmen’s Handicap, appropriately giving place to the President’s Handicap; the Great Northern Oaks from £4OO to £500; and with the Great Northern St. Leger Shakes, of £750, taking the place of a £350 handicap. The stake money for the autumn gathering thus goes up by £5OO. The only increase to be noted in connection with the winter programme is the raising of the value of the Jumpers’ Flat Race from £l5O to £2OO. It was decided to increase the distance of the Fitzroy Welter Handicap from six furlongs to one mile. Penalties are made 71b for flat races, 101 b for hurdles or steeples, except where graduated penalties are specified. In regard to future classics, nominations for which close next June, the stakes were increased by £350. The following are the alterations: —Spring meeting, 1916: The Welcome Stakes raised to £B5O. Spring meeting, 1917: The Great Northern Oaks —to be run at the spring meeting—raised from £6OO to £7OO, with no penalties or allowances. Autumn meeting, 1918: St. Leger raised from £B5O to £lOOO. The leading races in the programme for the season are: — SPRING' MEETING. Great Northern Guineas, lOOOsovs.; one mile.

Welcome Stakes, 75050v5.; five furlongs. City Handicap, lOOOsovs.; 1% miles. King Edward Memorial Handicap, lOOOsovs.; 11/I 1 /- miles. SUMMER MEETING. Great Northern Foal Stakes, lOOOsovs. ; six furlongs. Auckland Cup Handicap, 265050v5.; two miles.

Railway Handicap, lOOOsovs.; six furlongs. Islington Plate, w.f.a., 65050v5.; one mile. Summer Cup Handicap, lOOOsovs.; 114 miles. Great Northern Derby, 1500sovs.; IV2, miles. Newmarket Handicap, 65050v5.; six furlongs.

Auckland Racing Club Handicap, lOOOsovs.; 1% miles. Grandstand Handicap, lOOOsovs.; miles. Twenty-first Royal Stakes, lOOOsovs.; six furlongs. County Handicap, 500sovs.; six furlongs. Auckland Plate, w.f.a., 65050v5.; 1% miles. AUTUMN MEETING. Great Northern Oaks, 500sovs.; IV2 miles. Great Northern Champagne, lOOOsovs.; six furlongs. Easter Handicap, lOOOsovs.; one mile. Great Northern St. Eeger, 75050v5.; 1% miles. St. George’s Handicap, lOOOsovs.; IVz miles. Great Northern Hurdle Handicap, 125050v5.; 2% miles. Cornwall Handicap, 65050v5.; mites. Great Northern Steeplechase, 1250sovs.; 3Ya mites. Prince of Wales Handicap, 65050v5.; seven furlongs. York Welter Handicap, 65050v5.; one mile.

A member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly has given notice that he will move;—“That legislation be introduced to confine the conduct of horseracing to properly organised and licensed clubs that do not race for the benefit of private profit and racecourse proprietors or lessees.” Racing in Ireland is not to be discontinued, though members of the Jockey Club. authorised the stewards to order the suspension of racing should an intimation be received from the Government to the effect that racing in Ireland interfered in any way with the public service. An English paper states that never was so mtclf attention paid to horses as in the present war. The latest idea for their comfort is horse boxes mounted on motor cars for the transport of wounded horses to the base veterinary hospitals. Two b'oirses can be carried in each.