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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 344, 16 February 1856, Page 8

CANTERBURY RACE MEETING. TO take place . on Wednesday and Thdiisdax, 12th and 13th March. Stewards. W. K. McDonald, Esq. W. Smart, Esq. .I.T. Brown, Esq. F. W. Devon, Esq. C. C. Haslewood, Esq. First Day. Hubdlk Race for £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses: weight for asre. Jockey Club plate weights, two miles, over six flights of hurdles, 3ft. 6iu. high. The winner to pay £2 to the Racing Fund. The Canterbury Cup, value £ , added to a Sweepstakes ot|£ 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 Victuallers' Ptjkse of £ added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake, fourteen hands high, Bst. 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 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. Tiie Jockey Club Plate of £20, added to a Sweepstakes of £2 each, second horse to save his stake, for all horses foaled hi the Province of Canterbury. Weight for age—2 years old, 6st. lOlbs.i 3 yearsrSst.9lbs.,4 years, *9st.jl3lbs., 5 years, lOst 71b5.,6 years and aged, lOst. lOlbs. One mile and a half. The winner of the Canterbury Cup to carry vlbs. extra. The Ladies Puese 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 71bs., of both, lOlbs. extra. The winner to pay £o to the Racing Fund. Two miles and a half. The Selling Plate of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses. Weight for age—J.C.P. weights. The second horse to save 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 beat; the upset price to go to the owner, the balance, if any, to go to the Racing Fund. Consolation Stakes 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 alter the deciding heat of the Selling Plate, ami 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 of the previous races, excepting the Hurdle Race, Selling Plate, HackStakes, 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 to be entered and stakes to be paid to the stewards at the same time that the entries are made for jib. c Consolation Stakes, and to be handicapped in the same manner, lmile. CONDITIONS. In all Races an allowance of 4 lbs. will be made to mares and geldings, and an addditional allowance of 4 lbs. will be made to all horses brought fftm the other Provinces of New Zealand, should thf-y arrive within two calendar months fr..rn the first day of the meeting. No person not a subscriber of £l to the iundwiilbe allowed to enter a horse for any Race excepting the Hack stakes, nor for >hat race, unless a subscriber to the amount of 10s. Al! hnrees, excepting for the Hack Stakes Consolation Stakes, and forced Handicap, to he named, and colours of the riders to be declared under sealed cover to the Secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club, at the Golden fleece Hotel, Chnstcluirch, on or before 7 v ln on Wednesday, 6th M.'.rch. Horses for the Hack btakes-, Consolation Stakes, and Forced Handicap to be entered on the ground. No other post entries allowed. No public money will be added to the sweepstakes or entrances, by the stewards, unKss three horses, the bona fide property of sepaiate owners, do start.