Query: "Whether any horse according to any authentic documents ever ran the space of one mile in one minute of time? Signed, THOMAS HURST, and JOHN IVES."

Answer: "There is no authentic document of any horse having run one mile in one minute of time; and the report of Childers having done so is not believed. Signed (per order),

"24th April, 1801.

E. W."

16.-A Bet on Placing First and Second-A Dead Heat for Second.

At the Goodwood Races, 1838, A betted B 25 to 10 that in the Sweepstakes, gentlemen riders, Reuben and Caliph would not be first and second. The result was

Answer: The stewards were of opinion that this case must be put on the footing of two events or matches, where the first event was won and the second event terminated by a dead heat; they therefore recommended that the money should be put together and divided.

17.-Money Given for a P.P. Bet-Horse
Disqualified.

B gave D 2 gs. for the call of 40 gs., p.p. in a sweepstakes between their horses.

Query: "Will D's horse being disqualified authorize him not to pay B the 40 gs., though B started his horse and the other did not.

Resolved by the stewards of the Jockey Club that "if the articles of the sweepstakes alluded to were publicly known at the time the 2 gs. were given for the call of 40 gs. p.p. and no subsequent alteration tending to disqualify B's horse was made in them, that B, who started his horse, is entitled to the 40 gs.

66

Signed (per order), "Friday, Oct. 2nd, 1777. E. WEATHERBY.”

EPSOM, 1796.

18.-Horses having started, Compromise repudiated.

Lord Clermont's Hornpipe beat Lord Egremont's Atropa, Derby course, 50 gs. This match was compromised by Lord Egremont paying 35 gs.; but the fillies had started and run two or three hundred yards before the jockeys were informed of the compromise. Atropa's rider then pulled up, but having started, it was considered a race and the full money paid.

19.-The owner of a second horse claiming the bets, because the winner's number did not appear on the Telegraph board.

ASCOT, 1863.-Fern Hill Stakes.

The jockey who rode Tomato weighed after the usual time, and Hippolyta's number appeared on the board by mistake instead of Tomato. The owner of the second horse objected to Tomato receiving the stakes and the bets on that ground; but in the absence of any law to make the objection valid, the stewards decided that Tomato was the winner, and it was subsequently determined that the proposal to transfer the bets to the second horse was in violation of the 2nd Rule of Betting.

20-Objection made after the Race.

Claxton, which had been scratched on the 1st of August in the 'Racing Calendar' by his former owner, appeared coloured in the Huntingdon card, and was allowed to start on the representation of Mr. E. Parr, that he had bought the horse on the 28th of July, with his engagements. Lord St. Vincent subsequently declared that when he sold the horse no mention was made of engagements, and Mr. E. Parr having failed to produce the

written acknowledgment required by Rule 34, Suspicion, the second horse, received the stakes, and the bets, by Rule 2, were paid to Claxton, owing to no person making an objection to him before starting.

By Order of Her Majesty's Master of the Horse, the following Queen's Plate Articles are substituted for those hitherto in force.

January, 1861.

QUEEN'S PLATE ARTICLES.

[It is Her Majesty's Command, that these following Rules be observed by the Owners and Riders of all such Horses, Mares, and Geldings, as shall run for HER MAJESTY'S PLATES at Newmarket and elsewhere.]

I. Every horse, mare, or gelding, that runneth for any of the said Plates, shall carry the weight appointed in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

II. Every person that putteth in a horse, mare, or gelding, for any of the said Plates, shall enter the same with the name of the owner, and the age, name, pedigree, or sufficient description of the horse, according to the Rule of the Jockey Club regarding nominations, at the time and place appointed by the Steward or Stewards of the Races at which such plate is to be run for. The charge for such entry shall not exceed five shillings, and no further charge shall be made on the winner of the Plate.