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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8303, 5 December 1906, Page 1

MauHcevllle Sports. —IHE Twentj-sixth Annual Gathering will be held on those picturesque grounds known as tho Horseshoe Bend, two minutes walk from the Mauriceville tailway station on Boxing Day, December 2Gth. Programme includes Gupssins Competitions, Quoits Match, Running, Jumping, Horse Jump, Horse l'rot, Ladies and Childrens Events, Etc., Etc , Etc. Mnuiiceville Handicap, £2l. Oce Mile Handicap, £7. Half Mile Handicap, £7. Brass Band in attendance. Send Secretary foi programme. CHAS. BROOKS, Secretary. Tho Vomivtg Sports CF THE WAIRftRAPA CALEDONIAN SOCIETY. TUESDAY, JANUARY 'ASTERTON PARK OVAL. £244 in Prizes and 13 Gold Medals. ENTRIES for all Handicap Races, ineluding Flat Races, Cycle, Quoils, Bushfelliag, Chopping, Hewing and Sawing Competitions, and Two-men Maiden Sawing Competition, close on SATURDAY, December Bth, 1906. at 8 p.m. ACCEPTANCES on THURSDAY, December 20th, 1906, at 9 p.m. Pees .must accompany Nominations and Acceptances. Entries for other eventa receiv a on ground. Special Attractions. Bagpipe Music, Highland Dances, Bicycle, Hurdle and Flat Races, Hewing, Bushfelllng, and fc-'awing Competitions, Wrestling and Jumping. Quoits Competition under rules of Wairarapa Quoits Clubs' Association. Wood-chopping Events under the rules of the N-Z. Axemen's Association. Cycle Events run under the League of New Zealand Wheelmen rules. All other events conducted under rules of the N.Z. Athletic Union. GRAND SCOTCH CONCERT in TOWN HALL, SAME EVENING, at 8 o'clock. Full programme can be seen at this Office, or obtainable on application to JOHN B. EMMETT. Secretary, Masterton. SHHURST ~-TJIOHANQINAI TRACING

ANNUAL'MEETING. To be held oil the ASHHURST RACECOURSE, FRIDAY, DECEMISER 28th 1906. f PROGRAMME.! . IRIAL HURDLE HANDICAP, of 100 sovs second horse to receive zo sovs and the third horse 10 sovs from the stake, Over 6 flights ol hurdles 3ft 6in high. Open to horses that have never won a hurdle race at time of starting. Nom 1 sov,, ace 30/- xj miles. 2. FLYING HACK. HANDICAP of too sovs; second horse to leceive i 5 sovs, and third horse io~ sovs from the stake. Nom 1 sov, ace 2 sovs. 6 furlongs. 8. ASHHURST GUINEAS of. iqo guineas; second horse to receive 20 guineas, and the third horse 10 sovs from the stake._ Forjpr-.-sent 3-year olds that are not nominated for other than hack races at time of entry and have not won a race of over 40 sovs at time of starting, hack and hunter races excepted. Colts Bst lolb; fillies and geldings Bst 51b. The winner of any race to carry a penalty of 7lb, two or'more races lolb. Final payment of 31s on night of general entry 1906. Closed with 5o nominations, t mile. 4. ASHHURST CUP, (Open). A handicap of 600 sovs; second horse to receive 70 sovs, and the third horse 30 sovs from I the stake. Nom 1 1 sov, ace 4 sovs. 1} miles. 5. MANAWATU GORGE HACK HANDICAP of 100 sovs; second horse to'receive 16 sovs, and the third horse ,ro sovs' from the stake. Nom 1 sov, ace 2 sovs. 7 furlongs 6. MAIDEN HACfK. SCURRY of 100 sovs; second horse to receive i 5 sovs, and the third horse 10 sovs from tne stake. For 3-year-olds and upwards that have never won a race at time ot starting and have never started in other than hack or hunter races.- V'eight qst. Entrance £2 10s. 5 furlongs. 7. POHANGINA HANDICAP, (open), of 300 sovs; second horse to receive 60 sovs, and th third horse 25 sovs from the stake. Nom sov, ace 3 sovs. C furlongs; 8. K.OMAK.O WELTER HACK HANDICAP, of 100 sovs; second horse to receive i 5 sovs, and the third horse 10 sovs from the stake. Minimum weight Bst 51b. Nom 1 scv, ace 2 sovs. 1 mile. Stakes paid in full. No race eas than 100 sovs. Total amount of stakes 1405 sovs. No third money less than 1O sovs. NOMINATIONS, WEIGHTS l& ACCEPTANCES. Nominations for all races_ and entries for the Maiden Scurry, also Guineas' payments close with the Secretary, Ashhurst, on Saturday, December Ist, at 9 p.m. Handicaps will be declared on ot about December lOth. .Acceptances close on Friday, December 14th, |at 9 p.m. The necessaiy fee must accompany each (entry, and the names of horses must be registered with the Racing Conference, ASHHURST GUINEAS, 1907. The second jjayment of 10s 6d due night of general entry Saturday, December Ist, 1906. ASHHURST GUINEAS, 1908. Nominations will be received on or {before Thursday, January 24th, 7907, for the Ashhurst Hack Guineas, of 100 Guineas, second horse to receive 20 Guineas and the third horse 10 Guineas from the stake. For the present yearlings that are not nominated for other than hack races at time of entry and have not won a race of oyer 40 sovs at time of starting, hack and hunter races excepted. Colts Bst lolb; Fillies and Geldings Bst sib, The winner of any race to carry a penalty ol 71b; twoor more races lolb. To be run on the Ashhurst Racecourse in December, 1908. Nomination 10s 6d, a second payment of 10 6d on night of general entiy, 1907, and a final payment of 21s on night of general entry, 1907. Distance I mile. Nomination papers on application to the Secretary, Approved in accordance I with the Rules of Racing—October 3rd, 1906. P. MOFFATT, Secretary Wanganui Jockey Club, GEORGE HERON. BAIN MERCHANT, GROCER, AND GENERAL STOREKEEPER Chapel ana Hall Streets MASTERTON.