GUILDFORD EDINBURGH HAMPTON LANCASTER IPSWICH three yrs old to carry 7st. 5fb. four, 9st. lib. five, 9st. 111b. six and aged, 10st. 2lb. twomile heats. CHELMSFORD EGHAM-weights as the preceding; two miles and a distance. GOODWOOD-three yrs old, 7st. 4fb. four, 9st. 2lb. five, 9st 13tb. six and aged, 10st. 41b. about three miles and five furlongs. YORK-three yrs old to carry 7st. 9tb. four, 8st. 121b. five, 9st. 4lb. six, 9st. 7lb. and aged, 9st. 9lb. two miles. CANTERBURY WARWICK LICHFIELD } three yrs old to carry 8st. 2fb. four, 9st. 6lb. five, 10st. six and aged, 10st. 3lb. two-mile heats. SALISBURY-weights as at Lichfield; one heat of three miles. LEWES-weights as at Lichfield; heats, New Course. LEICESTER) three yrs old, 7st. 111b. four, 9st. lib. five, 9st. 91b. BEDFORD ( six and aged, 10st. three miles. DONCASTER-three yrs old, 7st. four, 8st. 5lb. five, 8st. 121b. six and aged, 9st. 2tb. Cup Course; about two miles and five fur. longs. CALEDONIAN HUNT-three yrs old, 7st. 9lb. four, 9st. five, 9st. 9lb. six and aged, 10st. four miles. CARLISLE-three yrs old, 7st. 5lb. four, 8st. 9lb. five, 9st. 2fb. six and aged, 9st. 7tb. two-mile heats. LINCOLN three yrs old, 8st. 2fb. four, 9st. 41b. five, 9st. 11tb. six and aged, 10st. two-mile heats. YORK and RICHMOND alternate Plate-three yrs old, 7st. 21b, four, 8st. 7lb. five, 9st. lib. six and aged, 9st. 5tb. three miles. The first Newmarket Plate, and that run for alternately at York and Richmond, are to be run for by mares only, as heretofore. FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF HAVING WON A QUEEN'S PLATE. THESE are to certify, That her Majesty's Plate of a Hundred Guineas was won at the 's horse *Lord Lieutenant of the County. C. D. Clerk of the Course. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Master of the Horse to her Majesty. [The signature of the Lord Lieutenant alone is suficient; but that can seldom be obtained without first producing to him a certificate signed by the Steward and Clerk of the Course.] 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, Bedford, Shrewsbury, Leicester, Liverpool, Northampton, Lancaster, Egham, and the Hunters' Plate at Ascot, 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 Edinburgh and Caledonian Hunt Plates are paid at Edinburgh. The Clerk of the Stables requires the person presenting a certificate for payment, to pay for a receipt stamp of the proper value, which at present is two shillings and sixpence. * If the Lord Lieutenant be officially out of the kingdom, the signature of the Vice Lieutenant is admissible. The certificates for the Ascot Heath Plates must be signed by the Master of her Majesty's Hounds, instead of the Lord Lieutenant. RULES CONCERNING HORSE RACING IN GENERAL. WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A POST AND HANDICAP MATCH. At a meeting of the Members of the Jockey Club, held 25th April, 1833-It was resolved that from and after the end of the year 1833, horses should be considered at Newmarket as taking their ages from the first of January, instead of the 1st of May. With respect to other places, they will continue to be considered as taking their ages from the 1st of May, until the Stewards of those races shall order otherwise. Four Inches are a Hand. 1. CATCH WEIGHTS are, each party to appoint any person to ride without weighing. 2. Give-and-take Plates are, fourteen hands to carry stated weights, according to age, all above, or under, to carry extra, or be allowed the proportion of seven pounds to an inch. 3. A Post Match is to insert the age of the horses in the article, and to run any horse of that age, without declaring what horse, till he come to the post to start. 4. A Handicap Match is A, B, and C, to put an equal sum each into a hat; C, who is the handicapper, makes a match for A and B, who, when they have perused it, put their hands into their pockets, and draw them out closed; then they open them together, and if both have money in their hands, the match is confirmed; if neither have money, it is no match. In both cases the handicapper draws all the money out of the hat; but if one has money in his hand, and the other none, then it is no match: and he that has money in his hand is entitled to the deposit in the hat. VOL. LXXV. a 5. Horses are not entitled to start without producing a proper certificate of their age, if required, at the time appointed in the articles, except where aged horses are included, and in that case a junior horse may enter without a certificate as to age, provided he carry the same weight as the aged. 6. No person shall start more than one horse of which he is the owner, either wholly or in part, and either in his own name or that of any other person, for any race for which heats are run. 7. The horse that has his head at the ending-post first wins the heat. 8. For the best of the plate, where three heats are run, the horse is second that wins one heat. 9. For the best of the heats, the horse is second that beats the other horses twice out of three times, though he did not win a heat. 10. Where a plate is won by two heats, the preference of the horses is determined by the places they get in the second heat. 11. Where a plate or subscription is given to the winner of the best of three heats, a horse, to win the prize, must be the actual winner of two heats, even though no horse appear against him for both or either of the heats. 12. When three horses have each won a heat, they only must start for a fourth, and the preference amongst them will be determined by it, there being before no difference amongst them. 13. In running of heats, if it cannot be decided which horse is first, the heat goes for nothing, and they may all start again, except it be between two horses that had each won a heat. 14. If a rider fall from his horse, and the horse be rode in by a person that is sufficient weight, he shall take his place the same as if his rider had not fallen, provided he go back to the place where the rider fell. 15. 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. 17. Horses running on the wrong side of a post, and not turning back, are distanced. 18. Horses drawn before the plate is won are distanced. 19. Horses are distanced if their riders cross or jostle. 20. All complaints of foul riding must be made before or at the time the jockey is weighed. 21. No distance in a fourth heat. 22. A confirmed bet cannot be off but by mutual consent, except in the cases hereinafter mentioned. 23. Either of the betters may demand stakes to be made, and on refusal declare the bet to be void. 24. If a better be absent on the day of running, a public declaration of the bet may be made on the Course, and a demand whether any person will make stakes for the absent party, and if no person consent to do so, the bet may be declared void. 25. Bets agreed to be paid or received in London, or any other particular 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 same week, all bets must stand: but if the parties agree to run the race in a different week, all bets made before the alteration shall be void. 27. The person who lays the odds has a right to choose a horse or the field: when a person has chosen a horse, the field is what starts against him, but there is no field without one horse starts against him. 28. Bets and stakes made in guineas are paid in pounds. 29. If odds are laid without mentioning the horse before the race is over, the bet must be determined by the state of the odds at the time of making it. 30. Bets made in running are not determined till the plate is won, if that heat be not mentioned at the time of running. 31. A bet made after the heat is over, if the horse betted on does not start, is void. 32. Bets determined though the horse does not start, when the words "absolutely run or pay," or " play or pay," are made use of in betting. 33. Where horses run a dead heat for a sweepstakes or plate, and the parties agree to divide the stakes, such horses shall be liable to carry extra weight as winners: and all bets between such 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. If a bet be made on one of the horses that ran the dead heat against a horse that. was beaten in the race, he who backed the horse that ran the dead heat wins half his bet. If the dead heat be the first event of a double bet, the bet shall be void. |