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say that questions having something to do with 

 betting were those which chiefly occupied the Club's 

 attention. 



We may now consider some of the immediate con- 

 sequences of the proprietorship which the Jockey Club 

 had acquired by 1819 in certain portions of the 

 Heath. In July of that very year it was ' Eesolved 

 that . . . one guinea annually shall be paid in respect 

 of every racehorse that shall be trained and exercised 

 or shall run any private trial, &c., &c.' ; and ever 

 since that date, to listen to the jeremiads of trainers 

 and owners (who, of course, have to pay the piper 

 ultimately), what with a fine for this and a fee for 

 that, the Jockey Club has come to be regarded as 

 the horse-leech's two daughters, whose constant cry 

 was ' Give ! Give ! ' 



In 1821 comes the first instance recorded in the 

 book ' Calendar ' of a ' warning off,' when a poor 

 devil of a ' tout,' whose name was William Taylor, 

 alias Snipe (his nickname, no doubt), was ' warned by 

 notice from Mr. Weatherby to keep off the Heath 

 grounds occupied by tenants of the Jockey Club,' for 

 the heinous offence of * watching a trial with a tele- 

 scope,' and for ' refusing to say who his employers 

 were.' Apparently Mr. Snipe did not show fight 

 that is, did not withstand the Jockey Club, and render 

 an appeal to the law necessary ; but in 1827, when a 

 decision of the Stewards of the Jockey Club in the 

 case of a disputed bet (a sort of business which, as 



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