Racing Calendar for ..., Volume 37Racing Calendar and Turf Register Office, 1858 |
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25 added 25 sovs 50 added 50 sovs added aged agst Aldcroft allowances back his Stake bad third Barber's beaten Bedford's Birdcatcher black cap Blue Bray Brother Bullock canter Capt carried Challoner Chanticleer Charlton Cossack Course Dales Dawson's dead distance Ditto Duke fifth fillies Flatman Flying Dutchman Fordham four fourth half a length Handicap head heat horse Howard's Hughes Jackson's Jockey Club King Lady Land lead Little Lord Maid mares Mary Meeting Melbourne Mellish's Merry's mile Miss neck Newmarket olds and upwards Orlando Osborne's Owner paid 5 sovs Parr's Plumb Purse Pyrrhus Queen race Robinson's round Saxon's second and third second recd back Sister sleeves Snowden sold Stewards straight Subs Subscribers Surplice Sweepstakes three lengths three quarters three-year olds Touchstone White winner paid Won easily yrs old
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Page xxxviii - Jockies must ride their Horses to the usual place for weighing the riders, and he that dismounts before or wants weight is distanced ; unless he be disabled by an accident which should render him incapable of riding back, in which case he may be led or carried to the scale. 16. Horses' plates or shoes not allowed in the weight.
Page xxii - ... without so doing, the prize shall be withheld for a period to be fixed upon by the Stewards, at the expiration of which^ time, if the qualification be not proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards, he shall not be entitled to the prize, though his horse shall have come in first ; but it shall be given to the owner of the second horse. When the qualification of a horse is objected to after that time, the person making the objection must prove the disqualification.
Page xvii - If a match or sweepstakes be made for any particular day in any race-week, and the parties agree to change the day to any other in the same week, all bets must stand : but if the parties agree to run the race in a different week, all bets made before the alteration shall be void.
Page xiv - ... per cent. shall be allowed. All forfeits shall be paid before twelve o'clock at night of the day fixed for the race, and on those forfeits which shall not be so paid the deduction for the timely declaration of such forfeit shall not be allowed. No horse shall be considered as struck out of his engagement, unless the owner, or some person authorised by him, shall give notice to the Keeper of the Match-hook, or to his Clerk, or to one of the Stewards present.
Page xii - ... subscription of a new member. And the name of every member whose subscription shall be in arrear for one year shall be placed over the chimney-piece in the New Rooms and in the Coffee-room at Newmarket, in the Craven Meeting of each year.
Page xx - When any match or sweepstakes shall be made, and no course mentioned, the course shall be that which is usually run by horses of the same age as those engaged ; viz. If yearlings, the Yearling Course.
Page xii - In all nominations and entrances for stakes, subscriptions, and plates of horses, &c., which have not started before the time of naming, or entering, the sire, dam, and grandam of the horse, &c., named or entered must be mentioned, if known, unless the dam has a name which is...
Page xxviii - At a Meeting of the Jockey Club, held on the 16th of October, 1838, it was resolved, that any member of a...
Page xvi - When a person has a horse engaged in the name of another person, and is entitled by purchase or otherwise to start the horse for such engagement, but is prevented by any of the preceding laws from starting his horse without previously paying up forfeits to which he is not otherwise liable, he may, if he...
Page xxxix - For a plate, no person can run, either in his own name or in that of any other person, two horses of which he is wholly or in part owner, unless permitted to do so by a special clause in the conditions.