SUGGESTED REFORM IN NOMINATIONS. 259 



The names of the owners and the names and ages of the 

 horses would be arranged as follows : — 



Name of Owner. Name of Horse. 



Duke of Redhill JoJin Barleycorn, 4 yrs. 



Lord Southdown Bay Windham, 3 yrs. 



Mr. Jones Iron Master, aged. 



In due course the weights would be allotted thus : — 



S'. 11)S. 



Jolin Barleycorn, 4 yrs. old 107 



Iron Master, aged ... ....100 



Bay Windham, 3 yrs. old 7 o 



Three weeks before the race the acceptance would be 

 signified and the nomination be made, thus, let us say : — 



yrs. St. lbs. 



Lord Southdown nominates /^///^ i?^r/£;;'r(3;7/ . 4 10 7 

 Mr. Jones nominates Bay Windham ... 3 70 



TJiG Dnke of Redhill did not accept, and Iron Master is struck 

 out. 



In all races for horses of the same age, the entries could 

 be made by subscribers' names only, and a week or two 

 before the race the names of their horses (and their ages 

 if a weight-for-age race) should be sent in by the nominators. 

 The betting in all cases would be on the nominations and 

 not on the individual horses. Of course every nominator 

 would be at liberty to name and run ' his own horse, or 

 any other that was duly qualified, provided the owner or 

 nominator were not a defaulter, or otherwise incapacitated 

 from doing so by the rules of racing. 



I must guard myself from being understood to propose that 

 nominators should run their horses in each other's names as 



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