112 Horse Bacing. 



10. A Dead Heat Stakes Divided Bets Paid in 

 Proportion. 



The Duke of Kutland and Mr. Wyndham, whose 

 filly and colt ran a dead heat for a sweepstakes in 

 the Craven Meeting, 1822, agreed to divide the 

 stakes : but it being necessary for one of the 

 horses to walk over, a doubt arose as to the mode 

 of settling bets, and the following cases were sub- 

 mitted to the Jockey Club : 



First A bets B 5 to 2 on the field against one 

 of the horses which ran the dead heat ; secondly, 

 A bets B 5Z. on the field against the other horse 

 which ran the dead heat ; thirdly, A bets B 3 to 1 

 that one of the horses which ran the dead heat, 

 and Augusta in the Claret, did not both win. 



The stewards decided that in the first and second 

 cases the money betted must be put together and 

 divided ; and in the third case that the dead heat 

 being the first event the bet thereby became void. 



11. A Similar Case Heats Sweepstakes Divided 

 Bets Ditto. 



For the Lansdown Stakes at Bath, Mrs. Day's 

 Brother to Lusher, Mr. Sadler's Achilles, and Mr. 

 Wreford's Wilna had each won a heat ; Wilna was 

 then drawn; Mrs. Day and Mr. Sadler agreed 



