CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1926, Page 7

CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB

ALTERED CONDITIONS.

(By Teleoraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to alter the conditions for a number of races. At the Spring Meeting, the stake for the Spring Hurdles will be increased from 400 to 500 soys. The distance for the Linwood Handicap is increased from six to seven furlongs. The stake for the Port Cooper Hurdles is reduced from 400 to 300 soys. The Electric Plate will be abandoned, and there will be substituted the Stony hurst Handicap, of £500 for three-year-olds, one mile. At the Summer Meeting, the hack conditions are to be deleted from the Hornby Handicap, and the following substituted: "For horses that at the time of entry have competed three times in a steeplechase or liuruie race, and for horses eligible to run in hack races." The Midsummer Handicap distance will be reduced from a mile and a half to a mile and a quarter. At the Autumn Meeting the Kildare Hurdles will be altered to a flat highweight handicap, minimum 9.0, and wiil be for horses that at the time of entry have competed three times in a steeplechase or hurdle race andfor horses eligible to run in hack races; distance one mile and a quarter. In the Russley Plate, the hack conditions will be deleted, and' the race made open. , In the Gimcrack Handicap the distance will be increased from six to seven furlongs, and in the Courtenay Welter Handicap, the distancec will be reduced from a mile to seven- furlongs. The Poerswick Hurdles will be altered to a flat high-weight handicap, minimum weight 9.0, and will be for horses that at the time of entry have competed three times in a steeplechase, or hurdle race, arid for horses eligible, to run in hack races; distance nine furlongs.' The'Yaldhurst Welter dis-tance-will-be-increased from seven furlongs-, to a mile. The Templeton Handicap distance will be increased from six to seven furlongs, and it will be the.last race on the programme instead of the seventh. The final handicap will be called the Papanui Handicap, and will be the seventh race instead of the last race;