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TWO MILES AND A QUARTER AND LESS THAN THREE MILES:

Three yrs

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Four yrs

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FORM OF CERTIFICATE

OF HAVING WON

A QUEEN'S PLATE.

THESE are to certify, that her Majesty's Plate of a Hundred'

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Master of the Horse to her Majesty.

[The signature of the Lord Lieutenant alone is sufficient; but that can seldom be obtained without first producing to him a certificate signed by the Steward and Clerk of the Course.]

N.B. The certificate, when properly signed, is payable at three days' sight to the winner of the Plate (or to any other person, if endorsed by the winner) at the Office of the Clerk of her Majesty's Stables in the Royal Mews, Pimlico.

The Plates at Chester, Hampton, Goodwood, Huntingdon, Shrewsbury, Leicester, Liverpool, Northampton, Egham, and the 100gs added to the Whip at the Curragh, are given from a different fund, and the Certificates are to be addressed to the Keeper of the Privy Purse.

The Clerk of the Stables requires the person presenting a certificate for payment to pay for a receipt stamp.

*If the Lord Lieutenant be officially out of the kingdom the signature of the Vice Lieutenant is admissible. The certificates for the Ascot Heath Plates must be signed by the Master of her Majesty's Hounds, instead of the Lord Lieutenant.

RULES OF RACING.

At a GENERAL MEETING OF THE JOCKEY CLUB, held at Newmarket on Wednesday in the Craven Meeting 1858, to receive the Report of the Committee appointed on the 4th December 1857, to take into consideration the Rules and Orders of the Jockey Club and Rules concerning Horse-Racing in General-the Rules, revised and newly arranged, were read at length, and it was unanimously resolved that they should come into operation on Monday, April the 19th, 1858, and that all former Rules of the Jockey Club were repealed on and from that day.

Since then some additions and alterations have been from time to time made, which have been incorporated with the Rules of 1858. In 1870 numerous fresh Rules were adopted on the recommendation of a Committee, as appears in the usual report of the proceedings of the Club for that year, and the following Rules concerning Horse-Racing in General comprise the laws of Racing up to this date.

*The rules which have been altered during the year 1875 are printed in italics for easier reference.

RULES CONCERNING HORSE-RACING IN GENERAL.

Catch
Weights.

Feather.

Maiden horses.

Plates.

1. No race meeting shall commence before the week which includes the 25th of March, nor continue beyond the week which includes the twenty-second of November, unless the week including the 25th of March shall be Passion Week, in which case race meetings may be held in the week preceding.

2. Race-horses take their ages from the 1st of January.

3. Catch weights are, each party to appoint a person to ride without weighing.

4. A feather-weight shall be considered 5st 7th, and the usual declaration must be made when the jockey carries more than that weight.

5. A maiden horse or mare is one that has never won a plate or sweepstakes in any country.

6. A plate is any prize given to be run for, without any stake being made by the owners of the horses to go to the winner.

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.

7. Where a stake is deposited by the owners of the horses, which is to go to the winner, such race is a sweepstakes, and if an additional sum of money, cup, piece of plate, or other reward be offered to the winner, the race is still a sweepstakes, though such addition should be denominated a plate by the donor.

Thrée subscribers make a sweepstakes, and if a stake has the required number of subscribers at the expiration of the time of closing, and the number is afterwards reduced by death (or, in the case of a produce stake, by failure of produce), the race is not void as long as there are two horses left, the property of different persons, and if the number is reduced to two it is still a sweepstakes.

When the public money added to a sweepstakes is less than 50 sov. all forfeits and entrance money shall go to the winner, or some other horse engaged in the

race.

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8. No plate or sweepstakes shall be run for of less value than 50 sov. including the winner's own stake, excepting in cases of prizes left by will. This rule not to prevent the walking over for a less sum.

9. For a post match or sweepstakes each subscriber names two or more horses of the proper age, but can only run one, unless a greater number is allowed by the conditions of the race.

10. When any match or sweepstakes shall be made, and no weight mentioned, the horses shall carry 8st 10lb each, and if any weight is given the highest weight shall be 8st 12lb.

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11. When any match or sweepstakes shall be made of Course and no Course mentioned, the Course shall be that

which is usually run by horses of the same age as those engaged, viz:

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If yearlings, two furlongs
If two yrs old, six furlongs
If three yrs old, one mile

If at Newmarket

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If four yrs old, two miles

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If five yrs old or upwards, four miles

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And if the horses should be of different ages, the Course

shall be fixed by the age of the youngest.

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12. If no day is mentioned for a race it shall be run on the last day of the meeting, unless otherwise agreed by all the subscribers.

The Stewards of a meeting have the power, in cases of urgent necessity, of putting off the races from day to day until a Sunday intervene.

As to Nominations.

13. In all nominations for sweepstakes and plates, the horse or mare entered must be clearly identified. The name of the sire and dam must be given, and if the dam has no name in the Racing Calendar or Stud Book, such further pedigree and description must be added as will distinguish the horse intended to be named from any other of a similar pedigree. If the dam was covered by more than one stallion, the names of all of them must be mentioned.

14. If a horse has once been entered with his name name is suffi- and pedigree in a race published in the Racing Calendar, it will be sufficient afterwards to mention him by his name only, even though he has never started; and in entering a horse for the first time by his name in several races closing at the same time, it will be sufficient to give his pedigree in one of these nominations, and his name only in the others.

When the

If the name of a horse which has run be changed, it is necessary, in entering the said horse, to give his old as well as his new name in every nomination until the change has been duly registered in the Book Calendar; and if his name be changed again, all his names must be repeated for the like period: but if a horse's name be changed before he has run in public, it shall be sufficient to give his new name in the first entry made after such change.

15. In naming for a race in which horses of difage must be ferent ages are admitted, the age of the horse named must be mentioned.

mentioned.

No yearlings can run for public stakes.

No two years old shall run in any handicap before the 1st of October, and then only with horses of the sae age.

No two years old shall run more than six furlongs for ny plate or sweepstakes till the 1st of September. No three years old or upwards shall run a shorter di tance than five furlongs for any plate or sweepstakes.

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