10 Horse Bacing. 



number on the Telegrapli, and the jockey mulcted 

 lOZ. for not previously weighing by Kules 36-37. 

 Errors are occasionally made by putting up 

 wroDg numbers or by an omission ; the latter is 

 freely forgiven and overlooked when it alludes to 

 a beaten horse, but unmercifully condemned when 

 he turns up the winner. The King complains 

 when a number is taken down after that horse has 

 been backed ; this occurrence hits the fieldsmen 

 in a non P.P. race, but sometimes it happens that 

 a horse wins whose number has never appeared ; 

 that produces a similar despondency on the minds 

 of the backers of the favourites. There will be 

 no advantage to either party by twisting or alter- 

 ing the laws to meet these contingencies. The 

 Tomato case at Ascot was a singular instance of 

 the unaccountable ignorance of the 'Kules of 

 Betting.' It was wonderful that there should 

 have been a difference of opinion respecting the 

 bets, when the race was officially adjudged to 

 Tomato ; it was clear as the English language 

 could dictate, that in this instance the interests of 

 the stakes and the bets were inseparable. It was 

 afterwards proposed, with a view to patronize the 

 gambling interests at the expense of the horse 

 owners, to disqualify every horse whose number did 

 not appear on the Telegraph fifteen minutes before 



