412 RACIKG, STAKEHOLDERS AND STEWARDS. 



adjourn to a given day, or the first open day. At the 

 time when the contract in question %yas made, the day 

 appointed for the February Meeting was Tuesday the 

 2nd of February, 18-11. On Wednesday the 3rd, the 

 plaintiff and defendant were there, but frost prevented the 

 Meeting from being then held, and it was adjoiu'ned to 

 Tuesday the 9th, veathcr permitting. The frost, however, 

 continued beyond that day, and the Meeting was ultimately 

 held on Tuesday the 16th. On Wednesday the 17th the 

 plaintiff came with his Dog ready to run the Match, but 

 defendant did not appear. 



It was held, first, that the construction of the contract 

 was, that the Match should be run on the Wednesday during 

 the February Meeting, whenever it should be actually 

 held, and that the plaintiff performed his part of the con- 

 tract by being ready to run on Wednesday the 17th; 

 secondly, that the plaintiff was not bound to produce the 

 printed llules, but that it was enough for him to show that 

 the February Meeting was then actually held ; and also 

 that evidence was admissible to show what the joarties 

 intended by the letters "P. P." subjoined to the agree- 

 ment {/i). 

 Ordering off ^]^q Steward of a Race-course can order any person 

 Stand^^^ off the Gfrand Stand or Inclosure, though he has paid for 

 his Ticket ; but in such case the Steward or his Agent had 

 better tender the price of the Ticket to the party at the 

 time of giving him Notice to quit the Stand or Inclosure 

 to which the Ticket had giving him admittance. But the 

 person who had sold it to him should return the money, 

 for otherwise the holder of it would probably have a right 

 of action against the person from whom he had purchased 

 it, or against those who had authorized its being issued and 

 sold ; such action however would be founded on a breach 

 of contract, and not on his having acquired by the Ticket 

 any right to go on the Stand or Inclosure in spite of the 

 owner of the soil. The authority of the Steward was 

 confirmed in the following case, where the question was 

 fully discussed before the Court of Exchequer. 



In 184'i, Lord Eglinton being Steward of Doncaster 

 Races, Tickets were sold in Doncaster at one guinea each, 

 which were understood to entitle the holders to admission 

 into the Gfrand Stand and its Inclosure, and to remain 

 there during the Races. They were issued with Lord 



{h) Baintrec v. Hntchinson, 10 M. & W. 87, 89. 



