be liable to a penalty of ten pounds, or an imprisonment not exceeding two months.

6. Any person who shall be the owner or lessee or in pos- Penalty on session or occupation of any open or enclosed land or place owners and for which a licence for horse-racing is required under this act, occupiers of ground where and upon which any horse-race shall be held after the said unlicensed twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and horse-races eighty, without such licence having been obtained, shall be take place. guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punishable for every such offence with fine or imprisonment at the discretion of the court, such fine not to be less than five pounds nor more than twenty-five pounds, and such imprisonment not to be less than one month nor more than three months.

7. Every horse-race held or taking place in contravention Unlicensed of the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be a nuisance, horse-races to and any person injured or inconvenienced thereby shall have be deemed a nuisance, and all such rights and remedies against all persons taking part in liable accordthe same, and against owners, lessees, and occupiers of the ingly. land or place, as he would have in case of a nuisance at common law.

8. This act may be cited as the Racecourses Licensing Act, Short title. 1879.

QUEEN'S PLATE ARTICLES (a).

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

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

2. Every person that putteth in a horse, or mare, 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.

3. Horses that run for any of Her Majesty's Plates shall start at the time appointed by the Steward or Stewards of the Races at which such Plate is run for.

4. Each horse's or mare's place, as he or she come by the ending-post, shall be determined by the Judge appointed by the Steward or Stewards of the Races at the place where the said Plate is run for.

5. Every rider shall, immediately after the race be run, be obliged to come to the usual place of weighing, with his horse or mare, then and there to alight, and not before, and there to weigh to the satisfaction of the person appointed for that purpose.

6. And in case of neglect or refusal thereof, such owners and riders shall immediately be declared incapable of running or riding any more for this or any of Her Majesty's Plates hereafter.

7. No horse or mare that runneth on the wrong side of the post or flags shall have any claim to the said Plates.

8. None of Her Majesty's Plates to be run for in heats. 9. When the age or qualification of a horse entered for any of Her Majesty's Plates shall be objected to, either before or after running, the Stewards of the Races at which such Plate

(a) From the Racing Calendar, 1881.

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 they may require, and their decision to be final unless they shall think fit to refer the matter to the Stewards of the Jockey Club for the time being, in which case the decision of the said Stewards of the Jockey Club shall be final. A Certificate shall not be granted to any horse objected to until the question of his qualification shall be decided in the manner herein prescribed.

10. Her Majesty's Plates to be run for between the 25th of March and the week which includes the 22nd of November, both inclusive, in each year.

11. The distance shall not be less than two miles, and the weights, regulated according to the months in which the races are run, are to be according to the subjoined Schedule.

12. And in case any difference shall arise in running, or respecting any matters not hereinbefore provided for, or as to the interpretation of these Her Majesty's orders, the same shall be determined by the Master of the Horse, or by such person or persons as he shall appoint.

The following regulations were published by order in November, 1875:

The Master of the Horse gives notice that after 1875, with a view to encourage a greater number and a higher class of horses running for Her Majesty's Plates, the number of plates will be reduced and their value doubled.

No plate to be given at a meeting not held annually and otherwise supported by public money.

No geldings to be allowed to run, and no plate to be confined to mares.

(Signed) BRADFORD, Master of the Horse.

Until further notice they will be given as follows:

The places mentioned in the first column will have the

Plates in 1882. Richmond commenced in 1877.

(Signed) WESTMINSTER, Master of the Horse.

The Plates for Scotland, viz., for Edinburgh and Royal Caledonian Hunt come from a different fund from the above, are granted annually, and are only of the value of 100gs.

QUEEN'S PLATE WEIGHTS.

From this date, the weights for Her Majesty's Plates will be in accordance with the new Scale of Weight-for-age and Distance approved by the Stewards of the Jockey Club.

London, March 2nd, 1880.

(Signed)

BRADFORD.

Form of Certificate of having won a Queen's Plate.

THESE are to certify, that Her Majesty's Plate of Two Hundred Guineas

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C. D. Clerk of the Course.

The Duke of Westminster,

Master of the Horse to Her Majesty.

* Lord Lieutenant of the County.

N.B. The certificate, when properly signed, is payable at three days' sight to the winner of the Plate (or to any other person, if endorsed by the winner) at the Office of the Clerk of Her Majesty's Stables, in the Royal Mews, Pimlico.

The Plates at Chester, Hampton, Goodwood, Huntingdon, Shrewsbury, Leicester, Liverpool, Northampton, Egham and Plymouth, and the 100gs. added to the Whip at the Curragh, are given from a different fund, and the Certificates are to be addressed to the Keeper of the Privy Purse.

The Clerk of the Stables requires the person presenting a certificate for payment to pay for a receipt stamp.

*If the Lord Lieutenant be officially out of the kingdom, the signature of the Vice-Lieutenant is admissible.

RULES OF RACING (a).

At a Special Meeting of the Jockey Club, held in London on Monday, the 18th of December, 1876, to take into consideration the new Rules of Racing as submitted by the Committee appointed for that purpose, and discussed during the preceding Houghton Meeting, it was resolved that the following Rules should come into operation on the 1st of January, 1877, and that all former rules be repealed on and from that day. **The alterations made in the Rules during the year 1881 are printed in italics.

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I. Interpretation and Application of these Rules.

II. Management of Race Meetings and Powers of Stewards.
III. General Conditions and Restrictions.

IV. Entry and Subscription for Races.

V. Stakes and Forfeits.

VI. The Race.

VII. Objections and Complaints.

VIII. Special Conditions (Claiming and Selling Races; Produce Races;
Post Races; Handicaps; Sale with Engagements).

IX. Miscellaneous.

RULES OF RACING MADE BY THE JOCKEY CLUB AT NEWMARKET.

PART I.—Interpretation and Application of these Rules.

1. "Race" includes plate, match or sweepstakes, but does General not include or refer to a steeplechase or hurdle race, or a definitions. hunters' race on the flat.

"Horse" includes mare or gelding.

"Plate" means a race to be run for money or other prize given without any stake being made by the owners of the horses engaged to go to the winner.

"Sweepstakes" means a race in which stakes are to be made by the owners of three or more horses to go to the winner; and any such race is still a sweepstakes, even although the number is reduced by death to two subs., or although money or any other prize be added, and although the word "plate" be used in the official or ordinary name or description of such race.

"Recognised meeting" or "recognised race," used with reference to a foreign meeting or race, means a meeting or race included in the list of foreign meetings and races to be made as directed in these rules.

A "maiden" means a horse which has never won a plate or sweepstakes at any meeting in Great Britain, or at any recognised meeting in any other country.

A match at "catch weights" means a match in which the riders need not weigh before or after the race. Catch weights are permissible only for matches.

"Registry office" means such office as is for the time being appointed as the registry office by the Jockey Club; and ex(a) From the Racing Calendar, 1881.