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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 483, 25 June 1890, Page 6

The” “ Two Thousand Pound Stake, which the Canterbury Jockey Club propose giving in the autumn of 1893, will be framed B ractically on the principle of the English 'erh}’ and the Lancashire Plate. Like the latter race, it will be for two, three, and four-year-olds, at weight for age, with a somewhat similar graduated systern of penalties and allowances. The nominations will nob all close at the same time. It is proposed that coming two-year-olds (foals of 1888) and yearlings (foals of 1889) shall be nominated on the Ist day of August, 1890, and foals of the ensuing season shall be nominated on the Ist February, 1891, the conditions of nomination being that the two-year-olds and yearlings _ become liable for a first payment of sgs if struck out on or before the Ist day of August, 1891;' if not struck out before August, 1892, 15ge, and if nob struck out before Ist February, 1893, 22gs, the final and only payment if left in till day of general entry being 25gs. Foals entered will be liable to a payment of 3gs if not struck out February, 1392, and will incur the same liabilities thereafter as the yearlings and two - year - olds. The penalties will be for winners only during the racing season in which the race takes place ; thus the four-year-olds (now coming two-year-olds) at the time of starting will hob be penalised for their two and three-year-old wins, and the three-year-olds will not be penalised for two-year-old wins. The penalties under the graduated system are nicelv worked out in view of the possibility of’a flyer like Titan coming on the scene. Winners collectively of the value of 250stvs will incur 31b penalty; 500sovs, 51b; 750iovs, 71b; l,000sovs,101b; 2,ooosovs, 141 b penalty. Maiden two - year - olds allowed s)b, three-year-olds 71b, four-year-olds allowed 101 b. The stake will be divided asUollows £2,000, from which £2OO goes to the second horse, £IOO to the third horse, Vnd £IOO to the nominator of the winner. The only condition which the C.J.C. propoise to insert when launching their proposal, before owners is that fifty two-year-olds shall remain in on August Ist, 1891. \