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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 347, 27 February 1856, Page 12

CANTERBURY RACE MEETING. TO take place on Wednesday and Thursday, 12th and l3ih March. Stewards. W. K. McDonald, Esq. W. Smart, E<q. J. T. Brown, Esq. F. W. Devon, Esq. C. C. Haslewood, Esq. First Day. Hcrdlk Racb for £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses; weight for age. Jockey Club plate weights, two miles, over sis flights of hurdles, 3ft. 6in. high. The winaer to pay £2 to the Racing: Fund. Thk Cantekbuky Cup, value £ , added to a Sweepstakes of££ each, for all horses, weigbt for age. J.C.P. weights, second horse to save his slake, heats two miles. The winner to pay x£s to the Racing Fund. The Licensed Victuallers' Puesb of £ added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake, fourteen bands 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, •ne mile. Hack Stakes of ss. each, with three sovereigns added, for noises not entered to run in any oilier 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 iu the Province of Canterbury. Weight for age—2 years old, 6st. iOlls." 3 years, Bst.9ibs.,4 years, 9st Jl3lbs., » years, lOst 71b5.,6 years and aged, lOst. lOlbs. One mile and a half." The winner of the Canterbury Cup to carry 7lbs. extra. Thk Ladies Pubse of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save bis stake. Weight for age—J.C.P. weights. The winner of the Jockey Club Plate or Canterbury Cup to carry 7lbs., of both, Idlbs. extra. The winner to pay £b to the Racing Fuud. Two Biilesaud 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 usuhl way, within one half hour after the deciding heat; the upset price to go to the nwner, 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, (or horses that have started and not won in any of the previous races. Horses to be entered and stakes p»id 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 they may appoint. Once round and a distance. Forced Handicap of ten sovereigns each, h. St. for the winners of the previous races, excepting the Hurdle Race, Selling Plate, HackStakes, and Consolation Stskes, unless desired by the owner o! any such winner, open to any other horse that may have started iu the meeting. Tlorsc-s to he entered and stakes to he paid to the stewards at the same time that the entries are made foivthe Consolation Stakes, and i.o be handicapped in the same manner. Imile. CONDITIONS. In all Races an allowanceof 4 lbs. will be made to mares and geldings, and an addditional allowance of 4 lbs. will be made to all horses broi-^b.t from the other Provinces oi New Zea!nn<i, .-honk] thry arrive within two calendar iiiombs from liie first day of the meeting. No person not a subscriber of £l to the Fund wili he allowed to enter a horse for any R.icc ;-xc.{.-;(tiiig the Hack stakes, nor for that liice. inii< —«, u t.-übserilier to the amount of l(Js. Aii :::-.<M-s excepting for the Hack Stakes Consolation Stakes, and forced Handicap, to he ii«:iied, and colours of the riders to be de-«:!-■!red usider '.sealed cover to the Secretary of lii-s Cameibury Jockey Club, at the Golden Fkece Hoiri, Christcburch, on or before 7 p.m. mi Wj'dijejday, sth March. Horses for the Mack Stakes, Consolation Stakes, and Forced Handi-ap to he entered on the ground. No ether post entries allowed. No public money will be added to the swee; ':=kcs <>r t nuance?, by the stewards, un}:s«. time bors'.s, the bona fide property of se» aruie owners, do start.