EASTER AND AUTUMN
The stakes for the Canterbury Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting next, month have been fixed at the same value as last year. The Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps will be worth £1000 each.
The brush hurdle race each day is to be changed to a race over open hurdles, and the distance of the Courtenay Handicap, a maiden event on the first day, is to be increased from six to seven furlongs. For the Great Autumn Handicap a proviso is to be added to the effect that the winner of the Sockburn Handicap, run on the first day, will not be rehandicapped. The Addington and Templeton Handicaps, previously the seventh and last races on the second day, will be transposed this year, and the distance of the former will be increased from six to seven furlongs.
Pleading, who showed up early in the Lyttelton Plate at Riccarton last Saturday, was having his first start and he may be good later on. He is a well-grown Solicitor General colt out of the Absurd —Eulogy mare Eulalie, winner of the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap, and he is owned by his breeder, Mr. G. B. Macdonald, a patron of the Chokebore Lodge stable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1940, Page 15
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202EASTER AND AUTUMN Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1940, Page 15
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