AUCKLAND RACING CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1553, 29 January 1920, Page 14

AUCKLAND RACING CLUB.

AUTUMN MEETING

The programme of the Auckland Racing. Club for their autumn meeting appeared last week and will bear perusal, though nomination day is five weeks away. The Great Northern Champagne Stakes, of lOOOsovs., will see some of the juveniles fighting their .battles over again, and the Oaks should be an interesting race if only the best of the fillies that ran in Canterbury can be brought together. We continue to be at the mercy of visiting forces for these valuable classic events, and the St. Leger, of similar value to the Champagne Stakes, is the third classic on the programme. The Easter and St. George’s Handicaps, of lOOOsovs., take some winning, and we have nothing very formidable at this end of the Island to oppose the best of the probable visitors, so far as can be judged at the present time. There are so many meetings on about the same time and in the interval that it is possible that the good ones will be well scattered about. The best of the minor races are the Huia Handicap, a flat race of six furlongs; the Brighton Hurdle Race and Autumn Steeplechase, each of 500sovs.; two two-year-old handicaps of 275sovs. and 400sovs. respectively, and several other races, open or with special conditions, of from 275sovs. to 400sovs. in value. These races form part of a programme which will see a large increase in value next year. Nominations for the handicaps close on February 27 before 5 p.m., and forfeits for the classic races on March 12.