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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 341, 6 February 1856, Page 8

CANTERBURY RACE MEETING. TO take place ou Wednesday and Friday, 12th and I4tb March. Stewards. W. K. McDonald, Esq. W. Smart, Esq. J. T. Broun, Esq. F. W. Devon, Esq. C. C. Haslewood, Esq. First Day. Hdkdlk Race 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. 6in. high. The winner to pay £2 to the Racing Fund. The CANTERisimr Cup, value £ , added to a Sweepstakes otT>£ each, for all horses, weight for age. J.C.P. weights, second horse to save his stake, heats two miles. The winner to pay £5 to the Racing Fund. The Licensed Victuallebs' Purse of £ added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake, fourteen hands high, Sst. 7lbs. Seven lbs. 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 added, for noises not entered to rmi 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 his stake, for all horses foaled iv the Province of Canterbury. Weight for age—2 years old, i 6st. 1011:5.,*3 years, 85t,91b5.,4 years, 95t.|131b?., 5 years, lOst Tibs.,6 years and aged, lOst. lOlbs. One mile and a half. The winner of the Canterbury Cup to carry 7lbs. extra. | The Ladies Pukse of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake. Weight for age—J.C.P. weights. The winner of the Jockey Club Plate or Canterbury Cup to carry 7lbs., of both, lOlbs. extra. The winner to j JiiV £q to the Racing Fund. Two miles and a half. The Selling Plate of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses. Weight forage—J.C.P. weights. The second horse" to save bis stake. Heats, one mile. The winner to be sold by auction at an upset price of £?0, in the usual v,ay, 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 ihe Selling Plate, and to be handicapped by the stewards or whom they may appoint. Once round and a distance. FoncKD Handicap of ten sovereigns each, h. ft. for the winners of the previous races, excepting 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 vneeu ing. Horses to be entered and stakes to be paid to the stewards at the same time ibat the entries are made for the Consolation Plains, and to be handicapped in the sa:ne manner, lrrnle . CONDITIONS. In all Races an allowance of 4 lbs. will be made to marcs and geldings, and an additional allowance of 4 lbs. will be ma.ie Xo all horses brought from the other Provinces of New Zealand, should Liipy arrive within two calendar months Jn.m the first day of the meeting. ' No person not ;i subscriber of £\ to fue ! Funawi.il be nlh,v;,A ln ei-i^r v iu^e for any Hace fcxecntihj; the Hack stakes, nor for bat race, unless a Sulacrihny ;„ t } ie amount of ]o s , j Ai. - -k^s. IW the iJ ;H ;k Stakes Hx-Ar-, ;ni'l forced I*r"v!;c-;p i«, fee !i..:!;.--J, an.l c-!ou!s of tlie ri-icrs to bJ'.?c- \ cored u,.<i<r m-;,!-,] rover to tbr? Serv-iarv of '' the CaiiN.-.b.-try J, iC kev Club, at the (l;Up» \ lMeecc rlui,-,, Chvisici-.ur.;',,, .„, „r hufoy, 7 „..„,. ! on \\"t\ney)uy. Oih Muicii. Hoists i)>r'<h<- I IJuokSt^es C.MiM.liiiiou Stakes, anr! K 0|1 '.,.,] i H.ui.fi-a., (o !)e e ,, rrre( | 01] the „,.,„., ui _ i oiher ;kj.>i enfrits iiliowr-fl. c ' ' ! No p.ihlic monuy will be added to the ! swcopslukes or enirauces, by the stewnrds, im- ! less three horses, the bona fide prrbeiiy of separate owners, do start.