32 Horse Booing, 



bridgeshire without the 7 lbs. penalty. The fraud 

 might be punished by expulsion from Newmarket. 

 I put a hypothetical case, which may never occur, to 

 show the impossibility of any law to debar roguery 

 if the horse owner is so inclined. In order to pro- 

 mote fair play, it is imperative that after the 

 numbers have been TelegTaphed under official 

 authority, that objections should be made before 

 the race to protect the public, in default of which 

 the bets go to the horse which comes in first, even 

 if the nominator is subsequently ascertained to be 

 dead, or if the legality of the scratching be dis- 

 puted without fraud or culpable misrepresentation. 



In cases of incorrect nomination — for instance, 

 entering a horse which has won for a Maiden Plate. 



2nd. In the case of Newcastle named for the 

 Stakes, at York, 1859, for horses which had never 

 won 100/., he having previously won a larger sum ; 

 or, 3rd, Starlight winning a 50Z. Sweepstakes for 

 horses not engaged in the Newmarket Stakes, in 

 which he was nominated. 



4th. Horses in the forfeit list thereby dis- 

 qualified to run in public being ignorantly allowed 

 to be entered ; but if the owner of the horse was 

 aware that his horse was on the registry, it be- 

 comes a fraudulent entry, and may be investigated 

 within one year from the date of the offence ; bets 

 and stakes would then go to the second horse. 



