Racing Calendarproprietor Robert Hunter, 1831 - Horse racing |
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SUBSCRIPTIONS , Advertisements , and Intelligence , for the RACING CALENDAR , are received at the Publishers ' Office , No. 7 , Oxenden - street , near the Haymarket , where may be had most of the Volumes for the last sixty years ; also ...
SUBSCRIPTIONS , Advertisements , and Intelligence , for the RACING CALENDAR , are received at the Publishers ' Office , No. 7 , Oxenden - street , near the Haymarket , where may be had most of the Volumes for the last sixty years ; also ...
Page xxix
... received in London , or any other parti- cular place , cannot be declared off on the Course . 26. If a match or sweepstakes be made for any particular day in any race - week , and the parties agree to change the day to any other in the ...
... received in London , or any other parti- cular place , cannot be declared off on the Course . 26. If a match or sweepstakes be made for any particular day in any race - week , and the parties agree to change the day to any other in the ...
Page xxx
... receiving forfeit shall not be deemed a winner . 38. An untried stallion or mare is one whose produce has never run in public . 39. A maiden horse or mare is one that has never won . 40. It being an established rule that no person can ...
... receiving forfeit shall not be deemed a winner . 38. An untried stallion or mare is one whose produce has never run in public . 39. A maiden horse or mare is one that has never won . 40. It being an established rule that no person can ...
Page xxxiv
... received or considered as valid , so as to entitle the person naming to start his horse , & c . unless he shall , before the time of the closing of the stake named for , have paid up all arrears of stakes and forfeits ; but he shall be ...
... received or considered as valid , so as to entitle the person naming to start his horse , & c . unless he shall , before the time of the closing of the stake named for , have paid up all arrears of stakes and forfeits ; but he shall be ...
Page xxxv
... received as if no such omission had hap- pened . 23. A day - book shall be kept by the person appointed by the Stewards to receive the stakes ; in which shall be entered an account of all matches , subscriptions , and sweepstakes , to ...
... received as if no such omission had hap- pened . 23. A day - book shall be kept by the person appointed by the Stewards to receive the stakes ; in which shall be entered an account of all matches , subscriptions , and sweepstakes , to ...
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2-mile heats 20 added 9 subscribers agst allowed 3lb Beardsworth's Blacklock Capt carry 3lb Catton Cholstrey close and name Comus Day's distance Emilius extra Figaro Filho da Puta fillies five four yrs old Gayhurst Gentlemen riders gold Cup Grafton's grandam Handicap Sweepstakes horses not thorough-bred Lady Ld Anson's Ld Chesterfield's Ld Derby's Ld Grosvenor's Ld Jersey's Ld Mountcharles's Ld Orford's Ld Scarbrough's Ld Tavistock's Leeds's Lottery mare untried Master Henry Merlin Middleton Morisco Mostyn's Muley Newmarket Nowell's once round Orville owner Partisan Peter Lely Petre's Plate of 501 race recd Richmond's Rubens Sadler's Scott Stonehewer's sister six and aged Smolensko sold St Leger Stakes Stakes of 25 Stanley's started Stewards subscription Sultan Sweepstakes of 50 Thornes's Thornhill's three yrs old THURSDAY Tiresias Tramp twice round two-mile heats untried mares untried stallions WEDNESDAY Whalebone Whisker winner Wood's Wynn's Yates's yrs old colts
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Page xxviii - ... horses, or between either of them and the field, must be settled by the money betted being put together and divided between the parties, in the same proportion as the stakes shall have been divided.
Page xxxvii - 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 yearlings, the Yearling Course.
Page xxxvi - Newmarket shall be weighed immediately after the same, and shall be allowed -16 above the weight specified for his horse to carry, and no more, unless the weight he actually rode be declared as the weight he intended to ride : and if any horse shall carry more than...
Page xxxvii - 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.
Page xxxviii - In naming or entering for any race where there shall be any particular conditions required as a qualification to start, it shall be sufficient if the horse were qualified at the expiration of the time allowed for naming or entering; and he shall not be disqualified by anything which may happen after the expiration of that time, unless so specified in the article...
Page xxxii - If any horse, &c. shall be named or entered without being identified as before directed, he shall not be allowed to start in the race, but his owner shall be liable to pay the forfeit, or, if a play or pay race. the whole stake.
Page xl - C's rider, after saving his distance the second heat, dismounts between the Distance-post and the end, but remounts, rides past the Ending-post, and weighs as usual ; starts and wins the third heat, and weighs, without any objection being made. A. being second the third heat, in a short time afterwards demands the subscription (not knowing till then that C's rider had dismounted), and refuses to start for the fourth heat, which B and C run for, and C wins. It was decided that, no objection having...
Page xxxvii - Every groom shall have his horse at the post, ready to start, within five minutes of the time appointed by the Stewards. And every jockey is to be there, ready to start, within the same time.
Page xxvii - Jockies must ride their horses to the usual place for weighing the riders, and he that dismounts before, or wants weight, is distanced ; unless he be disabled by an accident which should render him incapable of riding back, in which case he may be led or carried to the scale. 16. Horses' plates or shoes not allowed in the weight.
Page xxiii - Plates are appointed to be run in heats, the Horse, mare or gelding that winneth any two heats winneth the Plate, but if three several Horses, mares, or geldings win each of them a heat, then those three and only they to run a fourth heat, and the Horse, mare or gelding that winneth the fourth heat shall have the Plate.