HE RACING CALENDAR is published by subscrip

Ttion, commencing on the 1st of January.

The Numbers of the Sheet Calendar are published nearly every week during the year, and contain reports of Races Past, the earliest information of nominations for stakes recently closed, weights for handicaps, advertisements of future races, sales of blood stock, &c. The Book containing the Races to Come is published early in February; a Monthly Pocket Edition of Races Past, every month during the season from the end of March to the end of September; and the Book containing the whole of the Races Past as soon as possible after the conclusion of the Racing season.

Advertisements and reports of Steeple Chases under the Grand National Hunt Rules are included in the Sheet Calendar. The volume of Steeple Chases Past, appearing at the end of the Steeple Chase season, is a separate publication, the price of which is 5s., or post free, 5s. 3d.

Terms of subscription, payable in advance :—

For the Sheet Calendars, Monthly Parts, and both Books (carriage free)

£ s. d.

2 5

For the Sheets and both Books (carriage free) 1 16
For the Sheet Calendars only

For the Monthly Parts only (carriage free)

1 5

0 10

Price of the Volumes to Non-Subscribers:

0

1 6

0

0

The Volumes for former years may be had, in lots, at a reduced price, according to the number taken.

Subscribers commencing during the season, and not requiring the back numbers of the year, pay in proportion, but all subscriptions expire on the 31st of December.

**Post-office orders to be made payable to C., J., E., and J. P. Weatherby, at the Vigo Street money-order office.

N.B. All the Books will be delivered to subscribers, by post or otherwise, carriage free.

GRAND NATIONAL

STEEPLE CHASE RULES.

1. Race-horses take their ages from the 1st of January. 2. Catch weights are, each party to appoint a person to ride without weighing.

3. The term "winning horse," in reference to those liable to carry extra weight, or those to be excluded from any race, shall apply only to winners of steeple chases in any country of 20 sov. or upwards, not including the winner's stake, or of some prize of equal value; and not to the winners of hurdle races, flat races, or matches of any kind.

4. A maiden horse or mare is considered one that Maiden has never won a "steeple chase" in any country of horses. the value of 20 sov. or upwards, not including the winner's stake; and a horse that has never started is one that has never started for a "steeple chase " in any country of the value of 20 sov. or upwards, not including the winner's stake.

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

6. 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 Sweepstakes. 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.

Three 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 after

Post Match or Sweep

stakes.

Omissions,

-of weight:

wards 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.

8. 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.

9. When any match or sweepstakes shall be made how supplied and no weight mentioned, the horses shall carry 12st 71b each, and if any weight is given the highest weight shall be 12st 7lb.

10. 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 four yrs old, two miles and a half.
If five yrs old, three miles.

If six yrs old or upwards, four miles.

And if the horses should be of different ages, the Course shall be fixed by the age of the youngest.

11. 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.

As to Nominations.

12. In nominating a horse, gelding, or mare the first time for a steeple chase, its full pedigree must be given, if known, otherwise it shall be sufficient to state its age, colour, and the name in which it has and is hereafter to run, together with such description as will distinguish the animal from any other running in a similar name, either in flat races, hurdle races, or steeple chases.

13. Should the name of any horse be changed after having been once entered in either a flat race, hurdle race or steeple chase, it shall be necessary in all subsequent entries to state his original name, as well as any other names under which he may previously have been entered, until it has been duly registered in the book of Steeple Chases Past.