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We may now get on to the Jockey Club's ' Third 

 Period,' from 1835 to the present day, having first 

 remarked that a measure of the respect paid by that 

 date to the opinion of the Club may be obtained from 

 the significant fact that the appearance in the records 

 from 1819 to this day of Antonio as the winner of 

 the St. Leger in 1819, is due to a decision of the 

 Stewards of the Jockey Club, to whom the question 

 had by agreement been referred as to whether the 

 Stewards of Doncaster Eaces had been right in allow- 

 ing a second race to be run (on the ground that cer- 

 tain horses had not been ready to start in the first), 

 and who promptly overruled the Stewards of Don- 

 caster, and gave the race to Antonio, a non-starter 

 for the second race. The power and influence of the 

 Club were still farther extended and consolidated in 

 1844, when, in consequence no doubt of the ' Kunning 

 Kein ' case, it was arranged that the Stewards of the 

 Jockey Club for the time being should be ex officio 

 Stewards of Epsom ; in 1857, when the like provision 

 was applied to Ascot ; and some time between 1878 

 and 1881, when Goodwood also was included in their 

 (joint) Stewardship. 



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