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seems to be fashioning racing on the Heath 

 pretty much in the same way as if the meet- 

 ings held under its auspices were gate-money 

 meetings. 



II. 



The " Rules of Racing," which have for a 

 long period given law to the turf, and the code 

 of honour pertaining thereto which all racing men 

 respect and obey, have been from time to time 

 revised and made more perfect by the Jockey 

 Club, which numbers at the present time about 

 one hundred members, and makes itself felt 

 through the stewards, to whom, for all practical 

 purposes, its powers are delegated. During their 

 period of office, to which they are nominated by 

 their predecessors, the stewards address those 

 who are interested in the sport of horse-racing 

 through the official "Calendar," which is published 

 in London by the Messrs. Weatherby, of Old 

 Burlington Street, who may be termed the mouth- 

 piece of the Club. In racing circles these gentle- 

 men are much respected, one of them being 

 " keeper of the match-book," and it would be 

 rather difficult to say what functions connected 

 with horse-racing they do not take part in. 



Messrs. Weatherby, in addition to being, as 

 may be said, clerks of the course for all races 

 run over Newmarket Heath, and therefore re- 

 cipients of entries, scratchings, etc., also officiate 

 in a certain sense as bankers to a considerable 

 number of gentlemen who own race-horses and 

 have payments to make in connection therewith. 



