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Dunstan Times, Issue 648, 18 September 1874, Page 3

Dunstan jockey club SPRING MEETING. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1874. STEWARDS : Jas. Hazlett A. R. B. Thoihom S. Wblsfokd Wm. Eames B. Naylor Jas Cowak Judge :W; L. SIMSON, Esq. Starter: A. R. B. THOMSON, Eeq. Clerk of the Course; S. WELSFOBD. PROGRAMME. ALEXANDRA HANDICAP Of 15 Sovs. Open to all horses. Distance three quarters of a mile. Nomination, 10s. Acceptance, 1 Os. MAIDEN PLATE Of 10 Sovs. Open to’all horses that have never won an advertised prize. Weight for age. Distance, one mile. Entrance, 15s. Post entry. DXJNSTAN HANDICAP Of 20 Sovs. Open to all horses. Nomination, 16s Acceptance, 10s. Distance, One mile and a half, SELLING RACE Of 10 Sovs. Winner to be sold for .£ls, and the surplus (if any) to go to die Race Fund. Distance, three quarters of a mile. Heats. No weight under 9 stone. HURRY SCURRY. Of 5 Sovs. No weight under 10 stone. Distance, three quarters of a mil*. Entrance, 7s Gd. R U L E S. No entry will be received for ahy of the above races except upon the following conditions.—That all disputes, claims, and objections arising out of the racing shall be decided by the Stewards, or those whom they may appoint. Their decision upon all points connected with the carrying out of this programme shall be final. Nominations for the Alexandra and the Dunstan Handicaps to bo sent iu to the Secretary, enclosing Nomination and Qualification fees on Thursday, the 17 th September before 8, p.m. Weights to be declared in tha Cromwell Argus of the 22nd of September. Acceptances to be sent in to the Secretary before 8 p.m. of the 21th of September. No person will be allowed to enter a horse for either Handicap unless ha be a subscriber of at least one guinea to the race fund. The rules of the Dunstan Jockey Club will be strictly enforced. WM. FAMES, Hon. Secretary. yw THE CLYDESDALE ENTIRE HORSE SURPR 1 S E , WILL travel this Season in tho Clyde, Cromwell, Alexandra, and Blacks’ districts. SURPRISE, bred by John Hamilton, Esq., is by that well-known Clydesdale sire Thane of Clyde, imported to Southland by Hugh M'Lcan, Esq. Ham bred by A. Clerke, Esq,, Longford, Tasmania, and imported into this Province by the Messrs Clerke, Brothers, fur breeding purposes on their farm. SURPRISE is a dark dappled bay, stands seventeen hands high, and is now rising eight years. Ho is a remarkably compact and powerful horse, with immense bono, fine liat leg, unequalled action, and docile temper. He has proved himself a sure ioal-gettev, and bis stock arc not surpassed by the progeny of any horse which has ever served in the Southland district, where he has travelled three years in succession. SURPRISE took second prize at two, three, and four years’ old at the Invercargill Annual Show, against all comers. A paddock for tho accommodation of mares coining from a distance will be provided at Wai Ken Keri, free of charge, without responsibility. The greatest care taken. Terms, £3, payable on the Ist of February, 1875; Uroomage, ss. J. MARTHUR, Wai Kori Kori. £SO REWARD. THE above Reward will ho paid to any person who will give such information as will lead to the conviction of the person or persons, who, wrongfully, wilfully, and maliciously informed tlie Police that the underI signed either branded, drove, claimed, I or sold any horses, cattle or stock of any description, other than his own louafide properly, or who used hi* came as Laving done so. [STEWART M'COMB.