CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1573, 17 June 1920, Page 9

CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB.

GRAND NATIONAL MEETING. The 1919-20 racing season in New Zealand is fast drawing to a close, and after the Napier Park Racing Club’s winter gathering, which is to be held on Friday and Saturday of this week, two meetings remain before the curtain is finally rung down on the season’s operations, these being the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club and Hunt Club fixture, to be held on June 23, 24, and 26, and the Wellington Racing Club’s winter meet-

ing, which takes place on July 14 and 17. The new season will be opened with the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National meeting, which is to be held at Rlc.car.ton on August 10, 12, and 14. The Grand National fixture is less than two months off, and already the prospects of probable candidates in the big jumping events at Riccarton in August next are being discussed in sporting circles, and each week will now witness additional interest being taken in the forthcoming fixture of the Canterbury Jockey Club. The two principal events to be decided at the meeting are the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase, of 1500sovs, three and a-half miles, and the New Zealand Grand National Hurdle Race, of 1500 sovs, about two and a-half miles, while next in importance come the Winter Cup, of lOOOsovs, one mile; Beaufort Steeplechase, of 500sovs, about two and a-half miles; Sydenham Hurdle Race, of 500sovs, two miles; and the Lincoln Steeplechase, of 600sovs, about three miles. Entries for all of the events named are due with the acting-secretary (Mr. F. C. Cother), Box 385, Christchurch, on Friday, June 25, at 8 p.m.