PREMIUMS — PRESCRIPTIONS 



Premiums. — King's Premiums are the money prizes 

 awarded under the direction of the Royal Commissioners to 

 a limited number of thoroughbred stallions, whose owners 

 agree that they shall travel certain districts of the country 

 during each forthcoming season at a fee of 40s. It is further 

 agreed that a horse shall serve not fewer than fifty half-bred 

 mares at this fee, and shall not compete for prizes at any 

 other show during the season. The limit of age is from four 

 years to twenty years, and the number of premiums awarded 

 is twenty-eight, of the value of i^ 150 each. The original source 

 from which the money came to provide for these premiums 

 was the Queen's Plates, which were established for the purpose 

 of encouraging thoroughbreds which could stay over a long 

 distance. In the year 1883, however, it was decided to apply 

 the sum in question to the purposes of Queen's Premiums, 

 as described above, the title, of course, being changed to 

 King's Premiums when King Edward ascended the throne. 

 (See Hunter, Hunter Szres.) 



Prescriptions. — The following is a list of simple pre- 

 scriptions which most horse owners will be able either to 

 make up themselves or else procure at any chemist's shop. 

 It is perhaps necessary to state that the weights of medicines 

 as given below are apothecaries not avoirdupois weights. 



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