4 Horse Racing. 



Brighton Club, and gives general satisfaction. 

 Then the horses would be fairly run out to secure 

 the second money. 



One hundred and thirty years ago, so many 

 robberies took place on the minor race-courses in 

 England, in running for petty prizes, which are 

 re-established in the present day, with the same 

 result, that an Act of Parliament was passed in 

 1740, to render illegal every plate under the value 

 of 50Z., with a penalty of 100Z. to the printer or 

 publisher of the programme, and a fine of 200Z. 

 for any person who started a horse for a smaller 

 stake, excepting at Newmarket and Hambleton. 



This Act was repealed in 1844, without due 

 consideration. It was hurried through Parliament, 

 to assist a private job, an information having been 

 laid against an influential person for running two 

 horses in a race, which forfeited the best horse to 

 the informer. 



What happened before, always happens again. 

 We are now retrograding to wretched 307. Plates 

 and small prizes, and it is again advisable to renew 

 a similar Act. 



In the amusing statistics which appear in the 

 sporting papers during the recess, no editor ven- 

 tures to trespass on the forbidden ground, viz. the 

 actual amount of money given for racing prizes in 



