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"Lord Tavistock's Sister to Benedick, covered 

 by Middleton." There being two sisters to Bene- 

 dick, the nomination was incomplete, according to 

 the seventeenth rule. Lord Tavistock ascertained 

 that the other sister to Benedick was sent abroad 

 some time before the stake closed, and submitted 

 that the circumstance sufficiently identified his 

 nomination. 



The stewards of the Jockey Club declined to go 

 into evidence of this nature, and decided that the 

 nomination was invalid. 



Remark : This is a very injudicious selection of 

 an adjudged case. There was no reason why the 

 stewards should have declined receiving evidence, 

 because it might have been proved that the sister 

 to Benedick sen* abroad was actually dead at the 

 time the stake closed. 



42. Similar Case Evidence Eeceived. 



A question was submitted to the stewards of the 

 Jockey Club in the Craven Meeting, 1840, as to 

 the qualification of the Duke of Portland's Beiram 

 colt to start for the 200?. Stakes on Friday in that 

 meeting, for which stakes he was entered as a b c 

 by Beiram, dam by Eeveller, out of Veil. Veil had 

 produced two fillies by Keveller, one foaled in 



