126 



Horse Racing. 



Feather. 



Maiden 



horses. 



Plates. 



3. A feather-weight shall be considered 

 5st. 71b., and the usual declaration must be 

 made when the jockey carries more than that 

 weight. 



4. A maiden horse or mare is one that has 

 never won a plate or sweepstakes in any 

 country. 



5. A plate is any prize given to be run for, 

 without any stake being made by the owners 

 of the horses to go to the winner. 



6. For a plate, no person can run, either in 

 his own name or in that of any other person, 

 two horses of which he is wholly or in part 

 owner, unless permitted to do so by a special 

 clause in the conditions. 



Sweepstakes. 7. "Where a stake is deposited by the owners 

 of the horses, which is to go to the winner, 

 such race is a sweepstakes, and if an addi- 

 tional sum of money, cup, piece of plate, or 

 other reward be offered to the winner, the 

 race is still a sweepstakes, though such addi- 

 tion should be denominated a plate by the 

 donor. 



Three subscribers make a sweepstakes, 

 and if a stake has the required number 

 of subscribers at the expiration of the time 

 of closing, and the number is afterwards re- 

 duced by death (or, in the case of a produce 

 stake, by failure of produce), the race is not 

 void as long as there are two horses left, 



