[The charges for stake-holding at Ascot and Goodwood are the same as at Newmarket, with the exception of handicaps, for which the charge is one per cent.]

31. The Keeper of the Match-book is entitled to Fees for rocharge a fee of 2s. 6d. on all nominations at New- minations. market, if published in the Racing Calendar before running, but not on the entries which are made at Newmarket during the week of running.

fees.

32. The weighing fee for plates and stakes is 10s. Weighing each horse, and 10s, extra for the winner; the former is to be paid to the Keeper of the Match-book at the same time with the stakes, and for plates at the time of entry.

The Keeper of the Match-book shall charge the proprietors of such horses as receive forfeit, and shall be excused from appearing, with the same fees for weights and scales as if they had come over the Course. No weighing fee is charged for matches.

33. Towards defraying the expense of repairing the Heath tax. Course and Exercise-ground, four guineas annually shall be paid in respect of every horse that shall be trained at Newmarket, and one guinea annually for every horse that goes there for any race-meeting and uses the ground for exercise, or runs any private trial or public race thereon. Any horse remaining at Newmarket more than six weeks, including either the Spring or three October Meetings, or more than three weeks in July, shall be considered as trained at Newmarket, and be liable for the full Heath Tax, but no horse remaining a less time than three weeks, whether during the race time or not, shall be charged more than one guinea. And the same shall be paid by the stable-keeper or servant having the care of such horse, and be charged by him to the owner of such horse. The Stewards shall make such orders as they think fit relative to the returns to be made by the stablekeepers or servants, of horses under their care, and if any stable-keeper or servant shall fail to make a true return according to this order, he will be surcharged one guinea for each horse omitted in his list.

N.B.-At present all trainers are required to send in on the 1st of February, a list of the horses which have

Licence

market.

to

been under their charge from the 1st of January, and on the t of every succeeding month a list of any additional horses that have been under their care since the preceding return.

34. Every trainer who wishes to train horses on train at New- the lands belonging to, or in the occupation of, the Jockey Club, must apply annually to the Stewards for a licence, and on making such application must specify the horses then under his charge, and the names of their owners.

Entrance to

plates.

Plates and

A trainer shall be liable to have his licence withdrawn for breaking the rules laid down by the Stewards for the management of the ground, or for any misconduct on the Turf, or in matters connected with it, and the prohibition to use the lands of the Jockey Club attached to the refusal or withdrawal of a licence shall extend to the Race meetings.

The payment of Heath Tax shall not be taken to confer on the person paying the same any legal rights which shall interfere or be inconsistent with the absolute control the Club now has over all persons using or going on to their grounds.

Should the Stewards find it necessary to refuse, or withdraw a licence from any trainer, they will report that they have done so at the next General Meeting of the Club.

35. The entrance to a plate at Newmarket shall not exceed 3 sov.

36. When a plate given from the funds of the Jockey Sweepstakes Club is walked over for, only half the amount is paid, walked over and if a sweepstakes to which money is added by the Jockey Club is walked over for, only half the added money shall be paid.

for.

Starting

Relating to other matters not before specified.

37. Every groom shall have his horse at the post, ready to start, at the time appointed by the Stewards; and every jockey is to be there, ready to start at the same time. Every groom or jockey making default herein shall forfeit 57., to be paid to the Keeper of the Match-book, and by him accounted for to the Stewards.

The person appointed to start the horses shall mark in his list the time when the horses in each race actually started; and if there have been any false starts, the first of them shall be considered as the time of starting for

that race, and he shall make a report thereof to the Keeper of the Match-book in the afternoon of the day the races are run. And if any delay shall have taken place, he shall state by whom, or by what cause, the delay was occasioned. He shall regulate his watch by the Coffee-room clock, which shall be considered as the true time for this purpose.

38. No races for gentlemen riders are allowed at Races for Newmarket during the regular meetings without the Gentlemen sanction of the Stewards, and, that accorded, such races

must be the first or last of the day.

39. Any member of a Racing Club riding in with the leading horses in a race shall be fined to the amount

of 257., and all other persons to the amount of 51.

Riders.

40. Rule 42, concerning Horse-Racing in general, Raising extends at Newmarket to the highest weight left in at weights in ten o'clock the preceding evening in handicaps for handicaps. plates and stakes, where there is no declaration of forfeit, and where the weights are fixed the night before running.

41. No trainer shall engage any lad, or other stable servant, without previously referring to hi last employer, and receiving a satisfactory reply. Any trainer infringing this rule shall not be allowed to train horses at Newmarket, or at other meetings where the Newmarket Rules are enforced.

Any boy prevented from obtaining employment by this rule shall have the right of appeal to the Stewards for an enquiry.

Every jockey at the termination of his apprenticeship is free to form engagements for himself, irrespective of any which may have been made for him during such apprenticeship.

42. No rule or alteration of a rule of the Jockey Club takes effect until it has been published in the Racing Calendar, unless specially ordered to the contrary at the time the said rule or alteration is adopted; and no new rule of the Jockey Club can be passed, and no rule be rescinded without previous notice being given in the Sheet Racing Calendar, nor at any meeting at which less than nine members are present.

1872.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOCKEY

CLUB DURING THE YEAR, ABRIDGED FROM THE SHEET CALENDAR.

The Annual General Meeting was held at Newmarket on Wednesday in the Craven Meeting (April 17th).

A Ballot took place for the Jockey Club, when T. E. Case, Esq., was elected a Member.

The accounts for the year ending December 31, 1871, were presented and passed, having been examined and allowed by Lord George Manners, the retiring Steward.

In the absence of Lord George Manners, Lord Calthorpe proposed that Viscount Falmouth should be the new Steward, which was unanimously agreed to.

Lord Calthorpe read to the meeting a letter from the Marquls of Ailesbury, Master of the Horse, proposing that in future one Queen's Plate of 300gs should be run for at Newmarket, in lieu of the three plates of 100gs each now given, the race to be run over one of the Two-mile Courses in one of the October Meetings. After some discussion, it was determined, by a large majority, to recommend that the three plates should continue to be given as heretofore, but that the distances should be altered-the plate in the Craven to D.I., and that in October to Cesarewitch Course, the July Plate being run the Round Course, as at present, and with the consent of the Master of the Horse, the Plate in the First October Meeting, 1872, was run the Cesarewitch Course.

On the motion of Lord Calthorpe it was resolvedTo add to the laws relating to the Forfeit List the following:

Forfeits one published in the Forfeit List must be paid direct to Messrs Weatherby, and cannot be struck out till this is done.

And to pass the following Rule, on the subject of the payment of entrances, in the place of that repealed at the Houghton Meeting

Rule 27. Eatrances to Plates, and to Sweesptakes where there is an entrance to go to the fund, are payable at the time of nomination; but if payment is not then insisted upon, they may be claimed afterwards under Rule 28, and published in the Forfeit List like unpaid forfeits.

A General Meeting was held at Newmarket on Wednesday in the First Spring Meeting.

Colonel Dudley Carleton was elected a Member of the Jockey Club.

Admiral Rous then brought forward the motion of which he had given notice, viz.—

That no person starting one, two, or more horses shall give orders to his jockey to pull up a horse that has a chance of winning, on any plea of declaration, or under any circumstances.

Lord Calthorpe seconded the motion in the absence of Lord Falmouth. General Peel spoke against it, and moved the previous question, which was seconded by Lord Wilton, and Baron Rothschild also spoke against the motion.

On a division there appeared

For the amendment

For the original motion

The motion was therefore lost.

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Lord Calthorpe then brought forward the motion on the subject of regulating the training at Newmarket by the granting of Licences, of which notice had been given by the Stewards, and stated the reasons which induced them to make the proposal.

Some discussion took place, and on the suggestion of General Peel, the question was postponed for further consideration.

A General Meeting was held at Newmarket on Wednesday in the Second Spring Meeting.

The Stewards again brought forward the question of granting licences to train on Newmarket Heath. The resolutions, of which notice had been given, were read at length, and, after a few observations, were passed unanimously in the following form. A definition of the length of training which should render a horse liable to the full Heath Tax was appended to Rule 33.