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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 337, 23 January 1856, Page 1

' CANTERBURY RACE MEETING. r PO take place on Wednesday and Fki- -*- day, 12th and 14th March. Stewards. W. K. McDonald, Esq. W. Smart, E*q. J. T. Brown, Esq. F. W. Devon, Eiq. C. G. Huslewuod, Esq. First Day. Hubdlk Racb for £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses; weight for age. Jockey Club plate weights, two miles, over six flights of hurdles, 3ft. 6\n. high. The winner to pay £2 to the Racing- Fund. The CANTEttBUi'.r Cup, value £ , added to a Sweepstakes ofs£ each, Tor all horses, weight for age. J.C.P. weights, second horse to save his stake, heats two miles. The winner to paj £b to the Racing Fund. Thk Licensed Victuallers' Purse of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake, fourteen hands high, Bst. 7lbs. Seven ibs. allowed or carried extra for every inch under or over. The winner of the Canterbury Cup to carry 7lbs. extra. Heats, one mile. Hack Stakes of ss. each, with three sovereigns adde<!, for norses not entered to run in any other race of the meeting. The last horse to pay the second horse's stake. Post entry, one mile. Second Day. , The Jockey Club Plate of £20, added to a Sweepstakes of £2 each, second horse to save his stake, for all horses foaled iv the Province of Canterbury. Weight for asre —2 years old, 6si. lOlbs., 3 years, 85t.91b5.,4 years, 9st|l3lbs., 5 years, lOst 71b5.,6 years and aped, lOst. lOlbs. One mile and a half. The winner of the Canterbury Cup to carry 71 bs. extra. The Ladies Pchsb of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake. Weight forage—J.C.P. weights. The winner of the Jockey Club Plate or Canterbury Cup to'carry 7lbs., of both, Idlbs, extra. The winner to pay £o to the Racing Fund. Two miles and a half. Thr Selling Plate of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses. Weight for age —J.C.P. weights. The second horse to sare his stake. Heats, one mile. The winner to be sold by auction at an upset price of £70, in the usual way, within one half hour after the deciding heat; the upset price to go to tbe owner, the balance, if any, to go to the Racing Fund. Consolation Stakes ut'£ added to a handicap sweepstakes of £ each, p. p., second horse to save his stake, for horses that have started and not won in any of the previous races. Horses to be entered and stakes paid to the stewards within a quarter of an hour after the deciding heat of the Selling Plate, and to be handicapped by the stewards or whom they may appoint. Once round and a distance. Forced Handicap of ten sovereigns each, h. ft. for the winners o[ the previous races, excepti.ig the Hurdle Race, Selling Plate, Hack Stakes, and Consolation Stakes, unless desired by the owner of any such winner, open to any other horse that may have started in the meeting. Horses (o be entered and stakes to be paid to the stewards at the same time that the entries are miide fur the Consolation Stakes, and to be handicapped in the same manner. CONDITIONS. In all R-.ices an allowance of 4 lbs. will be made to inures and geldings, ami an addditioiial allowance of 4 lbs. will he made to all horses brought from the other Provinces of New Zealand, should tlioy arrive within two calendar months from the first day of the meeting. No person not a subscriber of £l to the Fund will be allowed to enter a horse for any Rate excepting the Hack stakes, nor for that race, unless n subscriber to. the amount of 10s. All horses, excepting for the Hack Stakes