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be killed at the winning-post, provision is made 

 for his being carried to the scales to be weighed. 

 An explicit date is set down when flat racing 

 shall begin and end in each year. The powers 

 bestowed on the stewards of the different race 

 meetings throughout the country are generally 

 defined ; the gathering has to be under their 

 direction, they must regulate the conduct of all 

 officials and persons coming to the meeting on 

 business — that is, trainers, jockeys, and others. 

 The power of punishing evil-doers is vested in 

 the stewards, who may fine or suspend any 

 person in fault. Stewards of meetings, it is 

 commanded in the "Rules of Racing," shall exclude 

 from the stands, and other places under their 

 control, every person who has been "warned off" 

 Newmarket Heath, persons who are in the un- 

 paid forfeit list, also every jockey suspended 

 for corrupt practices on the turf, while as a 

 means of ensuring good order at meetings it 

 is ordained by the "Rules of Racing" that "the 

 clerk of the course, or corresponding official, 

 shall be the sole person responsible to the 

 stewards for the general arrangement of the 

 meeting," a clause evidently devised to bring 

 some kind of machinery to bear for the ex- 

 clusion of roughs and welshers from the race- 

 courses of the kingdom. 



The following remarks will be generally 

 accepted as being greatly to the point : " If an 

 individual member of the turf suffers a pecuniary 

 wrong, it is the Jockey Club to whom he 

 applies for redress ; and shor.ld his honour be 

 assailed, he places his reputation before the 

 same authority for vindication. In truth, looking 



