WANGANUI RACES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 221, 13 December 1860, Page 5 (Supplement)

WANGANUI RACES.

13/A and 14/A December, 1800. STEWARD 3. Major .Traffoud. Maj.'-r Cooi’hr." John >’:xon\ Esq. Dr. Tuxe. W. S. Kussei.l, Esq. JUDGE. Db. Gibbon. CLERK OF THE COURSE. Samuel Deighton, Esq. FIRST DAY. 1. Produce Plate of A-50, (or more it subscribed) added to a Sweep Stake of £5 ss. each, PP., open to all horses foaled in the colony, and that have never run for public money previous to the ensuing racing season. 3 yrs. old, Bst. 71b., 4 yrs. 9st. 71b.,. 5 yrs. 10st., 6 yr 9. and aged lOst. 41b. Heats, mile and-a-half; second horse to receive £lO out of the stakes. No person allowed to enter a horse without he is a subscriber of at least one guinea to this Plate. 2. Scurry Stakes of £ , added to a sweepstakes of one guinea each, p.p. Heats, one mile and a-half. Catch weights. 3. Ladies' Purse of £ , added to u sweepstakes of £2 2s. each, open to all horses. 3 yrs. old, 10st. 41b, 4 yrs. list 41b., 5 yrs list. 101 b., 6 yrs. and aged, 12st Heats, 2 miles, second horse to save his stakes. 4. Stock-horse Race of £ , added to a sweepstakes of <£l each, for Stock-horses bona, fide the property of Stock-owners in the districts of /Wanganui and ifongitikei, that have been regularly ridden after stock for at least 12 months before the date of entrance, and that are not entered for any race of the present meeting. Weights same as for Wanganui Stakes, post entrances, single eyeut, two miles.

SECOND DAY. 1. Hurdle Race of £ , added to a Bwee]‘Stakes of 2s. each, p. p. 3 yrs. 9*t., 4 yrs. lOst, 5 yrs. 106 t. 71b., 6 years and aged lOst. lOlbs, Heats 2 miles, over six hurdles 4ft. high. Second horse to save his stakes. The winner of the Produce or Ladies’ Purse to carry 41b. extra. 2. Wanganui Stakes of £ , added to a sweepstakes of £3 33. each, open to all horses. 3 yrs. old 9st., 4 yrs. old lOst., 5 yrs. lOst. 71b., 6 yrs. old and aged lOst. 101 b. //'inners ami thoroughbred horses to carry 41b. extra, //eats 2 miles, second horse to save Ids stakes. 3. Welter Srakes o(. £ , entrance <£l Is. each, top weight l4st. Open to all horses, second horse to save his stake, post entrance, heats one mile. 4. Consolation Stakes of £ , entrance All Is. each, for all horses that have run and not won a race during this meeting. Post entrances, weights to be handicapped by the stewards, single event, once.rouud the course and u distance. Mares and geldings to be allowed 41hs. All jockeys tc appear in proper costume. 2’he following rules and regulations will be strictly adhered to: 1. 'lhtre shall be a distance post for each race. 2. Any person entering a horse must be a subscriber of AH Is. to the iiace Fund. 3. Notice is to be given to the Stewards of all Matches that may be wished to be run between any of the Paces. 4. No person will be permitted to gallop or ride on the course during the Race days. 5 All dogs found ou the course will he de

Btroyed. 6. The Eacea will commence punctually at 11 o’Clock; half-au-hour allowed between each Heat and Race. 7. All applications for Booths to be made to the Stewards, who will point out the sites and regulate the scale of charges for the occupation of the ground. 8. The llules of the Wellington Jockey Club will be strictly adhered to. Entrances for the Produce Plate to be made in writing to the Stewards, at the York Hotel, on or before Thursday, 29th November, at 10 o’Ciock, p.m. Ail Entries for the remaining R aces to close at the Commercial Hotel on the 10th December, at 10 o’Ciock. p.m. All disputes to be referred to the Stewards, whose decision wiil be final. Subscriptions will be received at the Oriental Bank Corporation. By Order of the /Stewards, HENRY STOKES, Hon. Sec and Treasurer N.D. —The Race days have been changed to the second week in December, on account, of the Supreme Court sitting at Wellington dining the first week. j Wanganui, . Sent. 20, 1880,