The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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ENTERING AND SHEWING.—Horses, &c. entered for plates or subscriptions,
shall not be required to be shewn, if such horse, &c. has before started
at Newmarket; and the owner of each horse entered for a plate or
subscription, shall declare to the Stewards, or the Keeper of the Match
Book, the evening before by eight o'clock, or when the list is read, at
half past nine o'clock, whether his horse is intended to RUN or NOT,
which declaration shall be deemed obligatory, if in the AFFIRMATIVE,
unless the horse be taken ill, or matched; and if in the NEGATIVE, his
name shall be erased from the list.
TEN PER CENT. SAVED IN FORFEITS.—That the owners of horses, &c. engaged
in MATCHES or SWEEPSTAKES, in which the forfeits shall amount to ONE
HUNDRED GUINEAS, or upwards, shall be entitled to a deduction of TEN PER
CENT. if they declare their forfeits by half an hour past nine o'clock
the evening before running.
TRIALS.—No gentleman shall try the horse of any other person, except his
declared confederate, without giving notice of such trial, by inscribing
the name of such horse, or horses, or their pedigrees, with the names of
their owners, before or immediately after such trials, in the Book at
the Coffee House.
Under a set of RULES and REGULATIONS so judiciously formed, so
unanimously adopted, and so willingly acquiesced in, it is natural to
conceive, every thing has been introduced, and every measure adopted,
that could be thought equitable and necessary, towards shielding the
property of opulent and eminent individuals from the depredations of
those rapacious sharks, and determined adventurers, (as well in HIGH as
in _low_ life,) with which every avenue to the TURF has been infested
for near a century past; and which nothing can totally prevent, but
drawing such heterogeneous line, as will infallibly exclude those
_nefarious_, well known _pests_ from the superior, liberal, and
unsuspecting classes of society, who do honor to their country.
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