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allowance for class, after different changes, stood for 

 a long time as follows : — English horses to give Walers 

 7 lbs., Capes 21 lbs., Country-breds 2 st. 7 lbs., and 

 Arabs 3 st. 7 lbs. The improvement made by Aus- 

 tralians has been so great, that the 7 lbs. conceded 

 to them by English horses has recently been abolished. 



Another reform Lord Ulick effected was the sub- 

 stitution of class handicaps for winners' and losers' 

 handicaps. It had previously been the practice to have 

 on the last day of a race meeting, a forced handicap 

 for all winners of every class ; thus giving the stewards 

 the absurd task of bringing a good English or Austra- 

 lian horse with a winner of a maiden race for Arabs, 

 and again of trying to adjust the weights among the 

 losers of these classes. One of the last instances of 

 the old style of winners' handicap was at Sonepore 

 in 1867, when Colonel Robart's Rocket was weighted 

 at 12 st, 7 lbs., and an Arab wanner at 6 st. 7 lbs. ! 



