APPENDIX 



Up to the time at which the Jockey Club was established, 

 and for many years afterwards, the only Eules of Racing 

 (to be found in the records) consisted of two distinct parts, 

 of which one may be termed the Statute Law and the 

 other the Common Law. The former, in the shape of 

 ' An Abstract of an Act passed in the 13th year of his 

 Majesty's [George II. 's] reign, relating to Horse-Racing,' 

 and the latter, in the guise of a document copied verbatim 

 et literatim (but numbered, as it is not in the original), 

 are both inserted here, that the curious may see out of 

 what material the Jockey Club eventually elaborated its 

 present voluminous and minutely constructed code. There 

 were also separate articles referring to the Royal Plates 

 and issued under the authority of the Master of the Horse 

 for the time being ; but as the Plates, so far as England is 

 concerned, are obsolete, there is no occasion to deal with 

 those articles. 



Part of an Act passed in the 13th Year of Geokge II. 's 

 Reign, relating to Horse-Racing. 



Horses to be enter' d by the Oivners. And no more tha.n 

 one at a Time. — That from and after the Twenty-fourth 

 Day of June, one Thousand seven Hundred and Forty, no 

 Person or Persons whatsoever shall enter, start, or run 



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