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Horse Racing. 



Plate, but previously to the running for it, was to 

 carry 7 lbs. extra. 



The stewards of the Jockey Club gave it as their 

 opinion that she was not obliged to carry 7 lbs. 

 extra, and that a horse being duly qualified at the 

 expiration of the time of naming or entering for a 

 stake or plate should not be affected as to that 

 stake or plate by any subsequent event. 



It is a curious fact that the Jockey Club gave a 

 contrary decision against Mr. Batson's Cecilia, who 

 omitted to carry 3 lbs. extra, as the winner of a plate 

 the day before, w^hich was subsequent to her entry 

 for the plate in dispute ; but all similar cases have 

 been decided as above. 



At Newmarket in 1786, Quibbler, 6 st., carrying 

 feather weight, ran 23 miles in 57 m. 10 sec. 



At Newmarket in 1763, Cabbage, 13 st. 71b., 

 beat Trinket, 13 st., five times round the E. C. : — 



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