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the first Match is not run, and the last is, then it is a void 

 Bett. 



44. If two Persons by Agreement or casting Lot, to 

 chuse on two Matches, one is run and the other forfeits, 

 that which is run is determined, and that which forfeits is 

 void, they being two distinct Betts. 



45. Horses that forfeit are the beaten Horses, where it 

 is run or pay. 



46. Betts made on Horses winning any Number of 

 Plates that Year, remain in Force till the first Day of May. 



47. Money given to have a Bett laid them, not returned, 

 if not run. 



48. To propose a Bett, and say done first to it, the 

 Person that replies done to it, makes it a confirmed Bett. 



49. The Party in a Match, that does not bring his Horse 

 to the Post at the Time specified in the Articles, the other 

 at the Expiration of it, may go over the Course without 

 him, which intitles him to the Sum, or forfeit what the 

 Match was made for. 



50. Matches and Betts are void on the Decease of 

 either Party, before determined. 



Such, presented in the literal form in which it origin- 

 ally appeared, is Mr. Pond's List of Rules. It no doubt 

 has concealed somewhere about it a faithful statement of 

 the laws which were in his day accepted by the followers 

 of horse-racing as a pursuit or pastime, but the interpreta- 

 tion of those laws is rendered somewhat difficult and un- 

 certain by a grammatical construction which Mr. Pond 

 himself would perhaps have accounted for by saying that 

 he was 'no scholard,' but which, nevertheless, reminds 

 one forcibly of the greatly admired ^Eschylus and Thu- 

 cydides among the ancients, as well as of the celebrated 

 Mrs. Gamp among more modern and more fictitious 



