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Committee ' is said there to have decided in favour of 

 Sir Charles Bunbury, which need not have been a 

 Committee of the Jockey Club, for the case seems to 

 have been decided on the spot at a provincial race- 

 meeting), nor, either in Weatherby or in other records 

 which have been consulted, is there a word about any 

 protest, and we have seen that the Rule stands in 



* Pond.' Nor is anything said about the matter in 

 the ' Adjudged Cases ' ; so that, if Admiral Rous is 

 correct (which he certainly ought to be), there is in 



* Weatherby ' a very culpable omission of what un- 

 doubtedly ought to have been made known to the 

 public ; such an omission of information, interesting 

 and of importance to the public, as has given rise in 

 these latter days to a complaint that the proceedings 

 of the Club are not made so fully known as they 

 should be. 



However, the main point established is that the 

 Jockey Club first took cognisance (in the * Calendar ') 

 of General Rules of Racing in 1797, and first made 

 its own version of them in 1803 by expunging one 

 which had stood since the days of ' Pond ' (1751). 

 After this the Club published their own version of 

 those Rules pretty regularly, changing here a little 

 and there a little, from 1803 to 1833 ; and then, in 

 1857, having found themselves securely seated in the 

 saddle, they appointed a Committee which framed 

 what Sam Weller would have called a ' reg'lar new 

 fit out o' Rules,' that came into operation in 1858, 



