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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 346, 23 February 1856, Page 8

CANTERBURY RACE MEETING. TO take place on Wednesday and Thursday, 12th and 13th March. Stcn-ards. W. K. McDonald, Esq. W. Smart, Esq. J. T. Brown, Esq. F. W. Devon, Esq. C. C. Haslewood, Esq. First Day. Burble Race for £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses; weight for age. Jockey Club plate weights, two miles, over sfx flights of hurdles, 3ft. 6in. high. The winner to pay £2 to the Racing Fund. Thk Canterbury Cup, Value £ , added to a Sweepstakes of: £ 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. Thk Licensed Victuallers' 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 7ibs. extra. Heats, one mile. Hack Stakes of ss. each, with three sovereigns added, for noises 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 age —2 years old, 6st. IOILs.* 3 years,"Bst.9lbs.,4 years, 9st|l3ihs., 5 years, lOst 71b5.,6 years aud aged, 10st. lOlbs. One mile and a half. The winner of the Canterbury Cup to carry 71 bs. extra. The Ladies Purse 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 cany 7lhs., of both, lOlbs. 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 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 heat; the upset price to go to the owner, the balance, if any, to go to the RacingFund. 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 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 of the previous iaces, excepting the Hurdle Race. Selling Plate, Hack Stake-, and Consolation Stakes, unless desired by the <>wner of any such v. inner, open to any other horse that may have started in the meeting. ii> ses to he entered and stakes to be paid to the stewnids at the same lime that the entries are made for the Consolation Slakes, aud to be handicapped in the same manner, imile. CONDITIONS. In all Rices an allowanceof 4 lbs. will be made to mares and geldings, and an adddilional allowance of 4 lbs. will be mane to all horses brought from the other Provinces of New Zealand, -houM U-.--Y arrive within two calendar months IVion the first day of the meeting. N<» person not a subscriber of £T to the I'uud wiil tie allowed to enter a horse for any Race excepting the Hack Makes, nor for 'hat race, unless a subscriber u> the amount of 10s. All ho.res, excepting for the Hack Stakes Consolation Stakes, and forced Handicap, to he named, and colours of the riders to he declared under sealed cover to the Secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club, at the Golden Fleece Hotel, Christchurch, on or before 7 p.m. on Wednesday, sth March. Horses fur the Hack Stakes, 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, unless three horses, the bona fide property of separate owners, do start.