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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TIME WHEN.—All stakes for matches, subscriptions, and sweepstakes, shall
be made before starting for the same; and in default thereof by any
person, he shall forfeit in like manner as if he had not produced his
colt, filly, horse, or mare, to start; and shall have no claim to the
stake or stakes of the MATCH, SUBSCRIPTION, or SWEEPSTAKES, should his
colt, filly, horse, or mare, have started, and come first; and this to
remain in full force, as an established agreement of the Jockey Club;
unless such person has previously obtained the consent of the party or
parties present, with whom he is engaged, to dispense with his making
his stake as aforesaid.
FORFEITS WHEN TO BE PAID.—All forfeits unpaid before starting, for any
MATCH, SUBSCRIPTION, or SWEEPSTAKES, shall be paid to the person
appointed by the Stewards to receive the same, at the Coffee Room,
before twelve o'clock at night, of the day such forfeits are determined;
and each person making default therein, shall forfeit and pay to the
person so appointed by the said Stewards, after the rate of five pounds
for every hundred pounds so forfeited; which shall be disposed of by the
said Stewards towards such uses as they shall think fit.
BETS MADE FROM SIGNAL.—And in order to prevent such frauds, notice shall
be given, that if any person make any bet or bets, from signal or
indication, _after_ the race has been determined at the post, such
person is not entitled to receive, or liable to pay, the same; as such
bet or bets are fraudulent, illegal, and totally void; and that if any
servant belonging to a Member of the Society should be found to have
made, or to have been engaged in the making, any such bet or bets, he
shall be dismissed his service, and no farther employed by any Member of
this Society.
FORFEITS AND COMPROMISES TO BE ENTERED.—That all forfeits, or money paid
on compromising any match or sweepstakes, shall BONA FIDE be declared
and entered in the day-book, in order that all BETTORS may be put upon
an equality with the persons who had the match or sweepstakes, and may
thus ascertain in what proportion they are to pay or receive.
AGE OF YOUNG HORSES.—The Stewards shall appoint some proper person to
examine every COLT or FILLY, being of the age of _two_, _three_, or
_four_ years, at the ending post, immediately after running, the _first
time_ any colt or filly shall start for any plate, match, sweepstakes,
or subscription, at Newmarket; and the said appointed person is to sign
a certificate of such examination, and his opinion thereupon, which
certificate is to be hung up before eight o'clock the evening of the
said day of running in the Coffee Room at Newmarket. But for all plates,
matches, subscriptions, or sweepstakes, where the colt or filly is
required to be shewn before running, the examination shall be made at
the time of shewing them; and the certificate of the person appointed,
shall immediately, in like manner, be fixed up in the Coffee Room at
Newmarket.
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