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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 339, 30 January 1856, Page 8

CANTERBURY RACE MEETING. TO take place on Wednesday, and Fiud.vy, 12th and 14th March. Stewards. W. K. McDonald, Esq. XV. Smart, E«q. J. T. Brown, Esq. F. W. Devon, Esq. C. C. Haslewuod, Esq. First Dm/. Hcrulk Rack for £ , added to a Sweepslakes ol £ each, for nil horses: weight for age. Jockey Club plate weights, two milrs, over six flights of hurdles, 3ft. Gin. high. The winner t«» pay £'2 to the Racing Fund. Tm; Cantkkbih;v Cri\ value £ , added to a Sweepsiakts oi\£ each, for all ho:ses, weight forage. J.G.P. weights, second horse to save his stake, heals iwo miles. The winner to pay £5 to the Racing Fund. The Licensed Victuallers' Purse of £ added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake, fourteen hands high, Sst. 7ibs. Seven lbs. allowed or carried extra for every inch under or over. The winner of the Canterbury Cup to dairy 7lbs. extra. Heats, one mile. Hack Stakes of ss. each, with three sovereigns added,-for. horses 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 Platk of £20, added to a Sweepstakes of £2 each, second horse to save bis stake, for all horses foaled in the Province of Canterbury. Weight for age—2 years old, 6s". lOlls.', 3 years,"Sst.9ibs.,4 years, 9st jlSlbs., 5 years, lOst 7lbs., 6 years and aged, lOst. lOlhs. One mile and a half. The winner-of the Canterbury Cup to carry Tibs, extra. The Ladies Perse of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake. Weight for age — J.C.P. weights. The I winner of the Jockey Club Plate or Canterbury Cup to carry 7U>s., of both, lOlbs. extra. The winner to pay £5 to the Racing Fund. Two I miles and a half. " I Thr Selling Plate of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses. Weight for age—J.C.P. weigius. The second horse to save his slake. 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 the owner, the balance, if any, to go to the Racing Fund. Consolation- Stakks of£ 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, ami to be handicapped by the stewards or whom tiiev may appuim. Once round and a distance. roECED Handicap of ten sovereigns each, h. ft. for the -.vinueis of the previous laces, excepting the Hurdle Race. Sf-iling Plate, Hack Stakes, and Consolation Stakes, unless desired by the owner of any such winner, open to any oiiier horse linn may have started in the meeting. Horses to "be entered and stakes to be paid to the stewaids at she same time I'nit die entries are made fur,, the Consolation Stakes, and to le handicapped in the same manner, imile. CONDITIONS. In all Races an allowance of 4 lbs. will be made to mares and geldings, and an adddilional allowance of 4 ]\>>. will he made to all horses brought from the other Provinces of New Zeaiami, >hould they 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 hoise for any Hace excepting the Hack stakes, uor for iha'l ntuc, unless a subscriber to the amount of ]os. All hoifes, excepting for the Hack Slakes Consolation Stakes, and forced Handicap, to be nutnetl, hud colours of the nders to be" declared iHid'.-T sealed cover to the Secretary of the Canteibury Jockey Club, at the Golden Fleece Hotel, Christcimrch, on or before 7 p.m. vii Wednesday, sth March. Horses for the Hack Stakes, Consulatioti Stakes, and Foiced Kandi-ap to be entered on the ground. No other post entries islluwcd. No jiubiic uiuiit-y will be added to tie sweepstakes or cmrancs-s, by the Mi-wards, unless three horses, the buna fide properly of i-c parate ownei:-:, do start.