The Racing Calendar: Steeple chases past, for the year ..., Volume 4

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Page xxi - Any horse running for a selling stake or plate is liable to be claimed by the owner of any other horse in the race for the price for which he is entered to be sold, and the amount of the stake — the owner of the second horse to be first entitled to claim...
Page xii - 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 xiii - When any person has more than one nomination in a stake, he shall not be allowed to start any horse for it unless the forfeits be paid for every horse which does not start, belonging to him, or standing in his name, or in the same name as the horse which runs, as well as the stakes for those which do.
Page xxi - ... on the day of the race, otherwise the party claiming shall not be entitled to demand the horse at any future period; but, nevertheless, the owner of the winning horse may insist upon the claimant taking and paying for the horse claimed. 59. When it is n condition of a selling race that the Stale...
Page xxiii - Plate is run for shall have the power to order an examination of the horse's mouth by competent persons, and to call for all such evidence as...
Page iv - The charge for postage is not included in the above prices to non-subscribers. 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.
Page xx - A walk over shall in no case be deemed necessary, either after a dead heat or otherwise. It shall be sufficient if a horse be weighed for, mounted, and proceed to the starting post, when, if no competitor appear in due time, he shall be considered the winner of the race. Such horse shall be liable to carry extra weight as a winner.
Page xiv - For a plate, no person can run, either in his own name or in that of any other person...
Page xiii - ... notes, payable on demand, and be paid into the hands of the person appointed by the Stewards to receive the same; and in default thereof by any person, he shall pay the whole stake as a loser, whether his horse came in first or not, unless such person shall have previously obtained the consent of the party or parties with whom he is engaged to his not staking.
Page xxiii - ... if he shall start his horse without so doing, the prize shall be withheld for a period to be fixed upon by the Stewards, at the expiration of which time, if the qualification be not proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards, he shall not be entitled to the prize, though his horse shall have come in first ; but it shall be given to the owner of the second horse. When the qualification of a horse is objected to after that time, the person making the objection must prove the disqualification.

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