Identification. Facts, testimony, certificates, pedigrees, 

 which help to distinguish a person or horse from all other per- 

 sons or horses. By tlie trotting rules, when a horse is nomi- 

 nated for a stake or purse, his color, sex, name, age, class, and 

 whether entered singly or in a double team, must be given. 

 Applied to a person making the entry it includes name, resi- 

 dence, post office address, and other facts to establish his iden- 

 tification, where personally unknown to the officers of a course. 

 Heavy fines and penalties are imposed for refusing to comply 

 with such rules, or for making wrong answers to questions. 

 Similar rules are enforced by the Turf Congress governing all 

 running races. 



Illegitimate Racing. [Eng.] An absurd formula 

 used by the sporting press as a synonym for steeplechasing, 

 hurdle-racing, and hunters' flat paces. Previous to the estab- 

 lishment of the Grand National Hunt committee, these sports 

 were unregulated by any code of law, and unrecognized by any 

 racing tribunal, and were then properly regarded as illegiti- 

 mate. They are now, however, as much under rules as flat 

 racing ; notwithstanding, the term continues to be applied to 

 them though it has lost its significance. 



In-and-out Horse. A horse that is one day good, and 



another off, and not to be depended upon ; either from being 



sick, sore, or from some unknown cause trotting a poor race. 



J. Q. was a peculiar horse and often trotted in-and-oiit races, and some- 

 times the public inuigines of such a hoi'se tliat his driver is not 

 honestly trying to win, wiien the facts of the case are otherwise. — 

 Life Witli the Trotters, John Splan. 



Inbred ; In-and-in Breeding-. To breed from ani- 

 mals of the same parentage, or from those closely related. 



Infield. The ground or lawn inside of the track or 



course. 



In-liand. [Eq.] A horse is said to be " in hand " when he 

 is sensible to the movements of the rider's legs ; bears the spur 

 without becoming excited ; does not displace his head or neck, 

 thus wasting his force, the reins bearing upon the sides of his 

 neck, and is ready for the word of the rider, being in perfect 

 equilibrium. 



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