History of the British Turf: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 21879 - Horse racing |
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Page 366 - Course, or of any other irregularities occurring in the race, must' be made either by the owner, jockey, or groom of the horse, to one of the Stewards, to the Judge of the race, to the Clerk of the Course, or the Clerk of the Scales, within a quarter of an hour after the race.
Page 365 - Any money or prize which by the conditions is to go to the horse placed second, or in any lower place in the race, shall, if the winner has walked over, or no horse has been so placed, be dealt with as follows, namely : — (i) If it be part of the stakes or plate, it shall go to the winner ; or, (ii) If it was to be given as a separate donation from the race fund, or any other source, it shall not...
Page 85 - ... that sliding down them, it may break the force of his fall. Notwithstanding all this care, a toss generally makes him sing to a very scurvy tune and draw his phiz into a pitiful grimace. But unless he is totally stunned...
Page 363 - List shall be published in the first calendar of every month during the racing season. Such monthly list shall commence not less than three years before the time at which it is published, and shall be carried down to and include the latest Forfeit List which has been published in the Sheet Calendar as above mentioned.
Page 368 - ... remain under the same disabilities as if the purchaser had been the original subscriber. In all cases of sale by private treaty, the written acknowledgment of both parties that the horse was sold with the engagement is necessary to entitle either buyer or seller to the benefit of this rule...
Page 368 - The Stewards of the Jockey Club may from time to time approve any racing club for the purposes of this Rule, and prescribe the magistrate, mayor or public officer 'by whom a foreign certificate must be signed. They may also require any further proof or confirmation in any particular case, and may declare any horse disqualified in default thereof.
Page 80 - ... tag and rag, men, women, and children, of all sorts and sizes, with all the dogs in the town promiscuously running after him with their bull-clubs, spattering dirt in each other's faces, that one would think them to be so many furies started out of hell for the punishment of Cerberus, &c.
Page 360 - If the dam was covered by more than one stallion, the names of all of them must be mentioned. 13. If a horse has once been entered with his name and («digree in a race published in the Racing Calendar...
Page 365 - Every objection must bo made by the owner, jockey, or groom of some other horse engaged in the same race [or by the starter], or by a steward, and must be made to cue of the stewards, or to the judge, clerk of the course, or clerk of the scales.
Page 368 - ... but when the horse is sold by public auction the advertised conditions of the sale are sufficient evidence ; and if he has been claimed as the winner of a race of which it was a condition that the winner was to be sold with his engagements, this also is sufficient.