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1. No horse to run in any flat race after November 15th 

 or before March 24th, and no two-year-old before September 

 I St, any horse so running to be disquahfied from entering or 

 running at any meeting where the Jockey Club Rules are in 

 force. 



2. No entries for two-year-old races to be made more than 

 fifteen days before the day advertised for running. 



3. No horse under four years old to run in any handicap. 



4. No public money, cup. or other prize to be given in 

 any race to which two-year-olds are admitted, or any race 

 under a mile, or to any handicap. 



5. All entries to be made in real name of owner or part 

 owner. 



The Kingsclere Baronet also indicated some 

 reformation or widening of the Jockey Club by 

 his proposition "that the basis of the club be 

 extended, and that not only more gentlemen who 

 are large owners of race-horses, but those who 

 take interest in racing as a means of preserving 

 the breed of horses, be invited to become members." 

 Sir Joseph, in formulating his Turf Reform Bill, 

 undoubtedly indicated some of the blots incidental 

 to modern horse-racing, as indeed previous turf 

 reformers had done, and as has in some degree 

 been done since he died. Under the rules of 

 racing as now administered there can be no doubt 

 that the gambling element of the turf has far 

 greater scope than it would be allowed under the 

 stringent regulations formulated by Sir Joseph. 



Whenever any proposals are made for racing 

 reform of a substantial kind, strenuous opposition 

 at once begins, both within and without the Jockey 

 Club. The members of that self-constituted body 

 are difficult to move in such matters, some of 

 them at any rate being pretty staunch believers 

 in the doctrine of " use and wont." Some critics 

 have asserted that the gambling element is at 



