SPORTING.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14660, 8 May 1913, Page 9

SPORTING.

eANTEEBtrKY JOCKEY CLUB.

i A meeting of the committee of the- Cantor- * Jury Jockoy Club was held on Tuesday, lhe pr»srruntne of the South Canterbury Hunt I &ibi Point to Point Bteepl«ch*se waa ope 'proved Tho jockey'a license of W. Brown I • wo.) <njep«nded for non-payment of a fire to */ "tieT/aanate Kncin£ Ciub, as was thojockeye -» hfvii'o of William Caroll for leaving his era- < plryolent The apprentice jockeys' licenses ' • o' T 0 Connor end W. J. Humphreys were leinvtaicd. Tho apprentice jockeys' license of E McCarthy wae suspended for tho renuiader of the season for the use of bad languid at the racecourse. A fine of £2 wae , inno'«l on. tho jockey P. Gibbona for diatiWjint; order* at the racecourse., C. Price's i afjlication to have the remainder of his Icrra of (I remitted wae refused. A geat otnan rider's certificate wis grronted f to J S Mou-Byres,. and a jockey's licence to ' P. J Wormald. The following transfers were '*!> roved —J. F.. Buchanan to W. Nicholls, b f, Jyr, by Signor— Helen Portland: L. -Q. % U i»iand to W. C. Clarko and F. E. Shaw, • t dl s Gnome, by Obligado—Sprite. Tlie Pro* r ,• ernmnie Committee lubrnitted ft report, which ~ w»* adopts It Tecomiuend«d that the condi- , of. tho Ise\r Zealand Cap chen'd be j ad pled With regard to the Grand National j pr< gramme,ut recommended that j,h« followi ' in? increases ahould be made to tho etakes:— Vt al Hurdle Handicap £60, En field Steeplen i eh « illO, AugU3t Handicap £100, Beaufort Stiep!e-ha*e £150, HwiUicoto Handicap £100, Syilenliaal, Hurdle Handicap £150, Lincoln ir . t l>fr«p ec'uu>o X 250, "United Hunt Steoplechaeo <3C f und Hunters' Plate JE3O. The propoeod increases imounted to iSBO, making a, granu (otil for the ATe«ting of £7790. /The commit^ tee furtn«r recommended, that the penaltioa In tho Grand National Steeplechase should ac 1 a«r.oltowei—"The winner of any steeplechase i o! the value of SO aove after the declaration < of wigHte to oarry Clb, d 100 eota Bib. of * * •»"* race or races of the collective value oil S» wm 121b. of 300 eova 14!b extra,.provided i that any horsd handicapped at llot or over rKOill only carry one-half of «uch , extra »*i,'hte" The same conditione to bo attached . to tho Grand Xfltional Hurdle Race and the I "Winter Cup, but the decreased 'penalty to j «pply to ho;ses carrying lOet 7lb and ovor, ihr minimum weight beingr 7lb lees in the m Jwt two races than ia the Steeplechase.