The Canterbury Trotting Club.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4904, 20 March 1894, Page 3

The Canterbury Trotting Club.

f A meeting o! the committee of the Can--3 tetbury Trotting Club was held at the Al b Hotel on Monday evening. A programme i for the club's next race meeting, to be held 0 on the Queen's Birthday, was drawn up. c The sum of 410 soys will be given away t in stakes, and the programme is as i, follows :— Maiden Trot (in saddle), of v 30 sovß, two miles ; Winter Handicap (in >. harness), of 45 Boys, two miles; Addington

Plate (in saddle), of 80 soys, two miles (6min limit) j Selling Trot (in harness), of 30 sovb, two miles; Canterbury Stakes Handicap (in harness), of 100 sovb, of three miles (9min limit) j Electric Handicap (in saddle), of 50 sovb, one mile ; Pony Trot (in saddle), of 25 soys, two miles. The conditions of the trot of 275 boys (the largest stake ever given in Canterbury or the South Island) were drawn up. The race is to be called The National Stakes 5 to be run at Grand National time; distance three miles, in harness, with a 9min limit. Full particulars of this race will be duly advertised. A good deal of discussion took place as to whether the race should be in harneßß or saddle, Mr Harris proposing the former, and Mr Tonks the laiter. On a division being called, the harness was carried by & majority of one. Some members of the committee were desirous of having the distance two miles, but were in ; the minority.