ig8 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



to be had on Indian racecourses. Lord Ulick, after 

 stirring up the Calcutta Turf Club into active existence 

 again, drew out a regular code of rules, embodying, 

 those of the English Jockey Club with the special 

 local ones, though departing from the former on a 

 few points : such as providing that the progress of 

 a horse must be actually impeded to establish a cross ; 

 not disqualifying an animal on account of the death of 

 his nominator, &c. These rules were adopted b>- 

 the Calcutta Turf Club in the beginning of i86i^ 

 and have, with but few alterations, remained in force 

 ever since throughout India. The Madras and Bombay 

 Turf Clubs were not long in following suit. 



When Lord Ulick took up the question of weights, 

 the state of things was as follows. There was every- 

 where in India a single scale of weight for age for all 

 distances and all classes of horses, regardless of the 

 different times of foaling of the various classes ; although 

 in the Colonies and at the Cape horses take their age 

 from the ist August. Here is the old Calcutta 



scale : — 



St. lbs. 



3 years 7 4 



4 ,. '"^ + 



5 „ ^"^ 12 



6 „ and aged ... 9 3 



