16 Horse Racing. 



this principle, wliich has never been disputed, 

 a three-year-old can run for a plate for four-years 

 and upwards, or a two-year-old can be entered 

 for a three-year plate ; the interpretation signifying 

 they shall not exceed that age. This may be 

 wrong in theory, and not in accordance with the 

 articles of the race, but in practice it is harmless ; 

 if publicly known, it does not require revision. 



The greatest improvement we have made at 

 Newmarket, is the protection we have afforded to 

 the horses, trainers, and jockeys, by surrounding 

 the weighing-room with open iron palisades, by 

 which means we exclude the idlers, and we avoid 

 the noise and confusion inseparable to mixed society 

 in a small room where silence and good order are 

 essentially necessary to enable the Clerk of the 

 Scales to weigh-out twenty jockeys in a limited 

 period of time. In country race-courses this is a 

 serious evil — the horses unsaddle in the midst of a 

 crowd, where jostling and a transfer of loose weights 

 may be easily made, and the weighing-rooms are 

 crowded with persons who ought to be excluded 

 by the police. 



