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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 345, 20 February 1856, Page 12 (Supplement)

CANTERBURY RACE MEETING. TO take place on Wednesday and Thursday, 12th and 13th March. Stewards. W. K. McDonald, Esq. W. Smart, E>q. J. T. Brown, Esq. F. \V. Devon, Esq. C. C Haslewuod, Esq. First Day. Hurdle 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. Oin. high. The wiuner to'pay £2 to the Racing Fund. The Canterbury Cup, valued , added to a Sweepstakes olV£ each, for all horses, weight for age. J.C.P. weights, second horse to save his stake, heats two miles. The winner to pay £o to the Racing Fund. The Licf.nsed Victual-lees'. Purse of £ added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake, fourteen bands high, Bst. 7llis. Seven lbs. allowed or carried extra lor every inch tinder 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 uorses 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. Toe Jockey Club Pi ate of £20, added to a Sweepstakes of £0. each, second horse to save his stake, lor all horses foaled in the Province of Canterbury. Weight for age —2 years old, 6st. lOlbs., 3 years. Bst. 91b5.,4 years. *9st.[l3lbs., 5 years, lOst 71b5.,6 years and aged, lOst. lOlbs. One mile and a half. The winner of the Canterbury Cup to carry 7lbs. extra. The Ladies Purse of £ , added to a Sweepstakes oi £ 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. , l 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. He;its, 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 ofiJ added to a handicap sweepstakes of £ each, p. p., second horse to save his stake, for horses that have i started and not won in any of the previous races. Horses to be entered and stakes paid j to the stewards within a quarter of an hour ] after the deciding heat of the Selling Plate, | and to be handicapped by the stewardsor whom they may appoint. Once round and a distance. Forced Handicap of ten sovereigns each, h. ft. for the winners oi the previous races, ex- | ctpihig the Hurdle Race, Selling Plate, HackStakes, and Consolation Stakes, unless desired by the owner (if any such winner, open to any oiuer lior.se that may have started in the meeting. Horses to he entered and stakes to be puid to the stewards nt the same time that the entries ar° made for'the Consolation Stakes, and to be handicapped in the same manner, hnile. CONDITIONS. In all Race? an nilowanceof 4 lbs. will be made to marc* and geldings, and an addditional allowance oi 4 lbs. will be made to all horses brought fV-.m the other Provinces oi New Zealand, should th»y arrive within two calendar months fmnn \\\? first <W\v of the meeting. .No m-rv.!) not ;. subscriber of £\ to the Fund wi;l tie all,wed to enter a horse for any licce exceiiiiiH/ the Hack stakes, nor for rhat race, unless a subscriber to the amount of ]() s . All bosses, .rvc-c-nting for the Hack Stakes Consolation Stakes ami forced Handicap, to be na:m>d, ; nul colours of the riders !o be deeluml under sealed cover !o the Secretiirv of the Canterbury Jockey Club, at tbe. Golden i Fieece j-J<.:»l. (";bris:cl:!irol,, „„ O r before 7 p.m. on \Ve(i:i«?(iay, inh M.irch. Horses for'the H:.m4- S(;«kf:.«, Coi!S(.];.!i(iii ?U!l: f -?. aii'l Forced I HanrJi'-ap to be i-rs.t-rcr! on the ground. No | oiiior post pnfrieh .-liidueri. ! No piilihc nioiiey will be :,o.<h : <] to the sweepstakes or entrances, by ilie stewards, unJe.s^ three horses, the bona fide property of sv2>ar;t!.e owners, do start.