Sir T. Gascoigne...... White, with black sleeves and black cap Lilac body, yellow sleeves, and black cap Orange Black body, light blue sleeves, and black cap Dark green, with black cap Green, with red cap Yellow body, black sleeves and cap Straw colour, with black cap Blue, and brown cap Pink body, blue sleeves & cap White, with black seams and black cap, tied with white ribband Light blue, with black cap Grass green satin, with black velvet cap Pink and white stripe Yellow and snuff-brown broad stripe, round the body Light blue Mr. Tatton Sykes.... Orange body & purple sleeves of satin, purple satin cap White and straw colour, Mr. Peirse....... quar White and dark blue stripe round the body Pea green White body, mazarine blue Deep orange, with black cap White, with red cap Brown body, orange sleeves, and brown cap, tied with an orange ribbon Purple body & yellow sleeves Brown Lilac Scotch plaid Purple stripe, with blue cap Crimson and white stripe. White body, pink sleeves, and striped cap Crimson, with yellow seams Red, with black cap THE THE EXACT LENGTHS OF THE COURSES AT NEWMARKET, N. B. 220 Yards are a Furlong. 1760 Yards, or 8 Furlongs, are one Mile. The last mile and a distance of B. C. 1 From the turn of the Lands, in...... 0 1 1 0 Abingdon Mile 0 ...... Two middle Miles of B. C....... 1 Two year old Course....... Yearling Course .... Round Course, old one destroyed and the new one not finished Bunbury Mile VOL. XXXVII. LAWS OF RACING. WITH a view to promote the uniformity of Decisions, as well as to prevent the trouble of applications to the Stewards of the Jockey Club, on points already decided, we intend, with the consent of the Stewards, to publish occasionally such adjudged Cases as may be useful as precedents. CASE I. JULY 4, 1776. A Subscription of 10gs each, for Hunters that never won either Plate, Match, or Sweepstakes, 12st. each, one 4-mile heat, &c. To be named on or be fore the 1st of April, 1777, to the Clerk of the, &c. &c. The Stewards of Newmarket were requested to give their opinion, whether a horse having won a Subscription on the 23d of April, 1777, was qualified to run for the above. Answer. The Stewards are of opinion that a horse being duly qualified at the day of nomination, is entitled to start. Signed, by order, &c. CASE II. A. B. and C. ran for a Subscription, the best of heats. A. wins the first heat, B. the second.-C.'s rider, after saving his distance the second heat, dismounts between the distance post and the end, but remounts, rides past the ending post and weighs, as usual; usual; starts and wins the third heat, and weighs, without any objection being made. A. being second the third heat, in a short time afterwards demands the Subscription (not knowing till then, that C.'s rider had dismounted) and refuses to start for the fourth heat, which B. and C. run for, and C. wins. Quere-Which is entitled to the Prize? Answer. The Stewards are of opinion, that no objection having been made to C.'s starting for the third heat, C. is entitled to the Prize. Signed by, &c. &c. CASE III. A. and B. have a Match at Newmarket, for 200gs, H. ft. to be run on Tuesday. On the preceding day it was agreed that A. should pay forfeit on certain conditions, to which B. agreed, and accepted the forfeit. B.'s horse did not walk over the Course on Tuesday. Quere Is A. obliged to pay the forfeit? Answer by the Stewards and two Noblemen nominated by the parties. We are of opinion that the agreement between A. and B. on the Monday ought to stand. CASE IV. The winner of a Plate, whose horse had distanced all the others, applied for the Stakes, or Entrancemoney, which was advertised to be paid to the secondbest horse that won a clear heat-one of the distanced horses had won the first heat. |