54: Horse Racing. 



Rolfe, who tried the cause, and afterwards by the 

 full Court of Exchequer, that the right conferred 

 by the ticket was a mere licence to remain in the 

 inclosure until it was revoked. That Lord Eglinton 

 had the power to revoke it at any moment ; that 

 having done so, the plaintiff's right to remain in 

 the inclosure was at an end; and that, as he had 

 refused to depart, he was legally ejected. 



The grounds upon which that decision was 

 arrived at it is not necessary, nor would it be 

 useful, in this work to discuss. It is sufficient to 

 say that so was the law laid down, and so it is. 



THE CLERK OF THE COURSE. 



In drawing up the articles of the racing pro- 

 gramme, avoid the modern extortions from the 

 owners of horses; sales by auction, unless the 

 second horse receives half the profit; plates, the 

 winner to pay back a percentage, which is giving 

 with the right hand and stealing with the left. 



Do not tax the stable-keepers and the black- 

 smiths to encourage them to make horse-owners 

 pay double. Some country programmes state that 

 horses will be disqualified to win if they come 

 in first, unless they stand at the stable of a 

 subscriber, and are plated by a subscribing black- 



