CANTERBURY RACE MEETING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 348, 1 March 1856, Page 12

CANTERBURY RACE MEETING.

TO take place on Wednesday and Thursday, 12th and I3il> March. Stewards. W. K. McDonald, Esq. W. Smart, E*q. J. T. Brown, Esq. F. W. Devon, Esq. C. 0. Haslewood, Esq. First Day. Hbki>lk 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 winner topay £'2 to the Racing Fund. Thk Cantekbdhy 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 x£o to the Racing Fund. The Licensed Victuallers' Purse of £ added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, second horse to save his stake, fourteen hands high, Bst. 7ibs. Seven lbs. allowed or carried extra for every inch under or over. The winner of the Canterbury Cup to carry 7lbs. extra. Heals, •ne 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 lor age —2 years old, 6st. 1011s." 3 years, Bst.9ihs.,4 years, 9st|l3lbs., » 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 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 carry 7lbs., of both, lOlbs. extra. The winuer to pay £5 to the Racing Fuud. Two miles and a half. The Selling Plate of £ , added to a Sweepstakes of £ each, for all horses. Weight f«»r age—J.C.P. weights. The second horse to save bis 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 mvner, the balance, if any, to go to the Racing Fund. Consolation Stakks of£ added to a handicap sweepstakes of £ each, p. p., second horse to save his stake, for horses that have started ami not won in any of the previous races. Horses to he entered and stakes paid tti the stewards wiihin a quarter of an hour after the deciding heat of the Selling Plate, an<i to be handicapped by the stewards or whom they may appoint. Once round and a distance. Forced Handicap of ten sovereigns each, h. !t. for the winners of the previous races, excppti.ig the Hurdle Race, Selling Plate, Hack •Stakes, and Consolation Stakes, unless desired by the owner of any such winner, open to any other horse that may have started in the meeting. Horses to be entered and stakes to be paid to the stewards at the same time that the entries are made for- % the Consolation Stakes, and i.o be handicapped in the same manner. Imile. CONDITIONS. In all Peaces an allowance of 4 lbs. will be made to mares anci geldings, and an adddilional aliowar.cp of 4 lbs. will be made to all horses brut-;ht from the other Provinces of New ZeaInnii. .-ijoukl tlit-y arrive within two calendar uioiuhs from the first day of the meeting. No |w-rvii) not a subscriber of £l to the Fund win be allowed to enter a horse for any R.iec cxct-jiting the Hack stakes, nor for that race, unites a hubscriber to the amount of 10s. All !;>:'m-s excepting for the Hack Stakes <\;»}.MLiii.,n Stakes, and forced Handicap, to l>e »fitned, and colours of the riders to he de-«:!-Me<l tinder '.sealed cover to the Secretary of ih.a Canleibury Jockey Club, at the Golden FUeoe Hoit-i, <JhrisLcburch, un or before 7 p.m. mi Wi-cJijesday, st!i March. Horses for the Hack Siakts, Consolation Stakes, and Forced liatidi.ap to be entered on the ground. No s'.liur post entries ;illuwed. No piiiiiie money will be ridded to the sweej -u.kes <t t nuance?, by the stewards, un};s*. three burs< f-, the hona fide property of se* aruie owners, do start.

The riders in all the races, excepting the Hack Stakes, must appear in the usual jockey costume. . . f A hell will ring for saddling, nnd another for starting Not more than five minutes allowed after the last bell, when the horses at the post will be started. Horses to be at the post for the Hurdle Race, and the Jockey Club Plate at 12 o'clock on each The rules of the Canterbury Jockey Club will be strictly enforced. The entrances or sweepstakes in each race will be 10 per cent, on the amount of the plate or stakes. The prizes will be paid by the' Treasurer on Saturday, loth March, at 3 p.m., at the Golden Fleece Hotel. Subscription Lists open at the different hotels. Subscribers are particularly requested to pay the amount of their subscriptions to the Treasurer, W. G. Britlan,Esq., or to one of the stewards, on or before noon of Saturday, Ist of March, in order that the committee may be enabled to give due notice of the value of the several plates or stakes. ThoxMas Cass, Secretary, C. J. C.