SUGGESTED REFORM IN NOMINATIONS. 259 
The names of the owners and the names and ages of the 
horses would be arranged as follows :— 
Name of Owner. Name of Horse. 
Duke of Redhill John Barleycorn, 4 yrs. 
Lord Southdown Bay Windham, 3 yrs. 
Mr. Jones Iron Master, aged. 
In due course the weights would be allotted thus :—~ 
st. lbs. 
John Barleycorn, 4yrs.old. 2... 10 7 
Lron Master,aged. . * @ & we « TO°-O 
Bay Windham, 3 yrs. aia. pe Sa. Boke. “SFO 
Three weeks before the race the acceptance would be 
signified and the nomination be made, thus, let us say :— 
yrs. st. Ibs. 
Lord Southdown nominates J/ohu Barleycorn. 4 10 7 
Mr. Jones nominates Bay Windham . . . 3 #7 «O 
The Duke of Redhill did not accept, and Iron Master zs struck 
out. 
In all races for horses of the same age, the entries could 
be made by subscribers’ names only, and a week or two 
before the race the names of théir horses (and their ages 
if a weight-for-age race) should be sent in by the nominators. 
The betting in all cases would be on the nominations and 
not on the individual horses. Of course every nominator 
would be at liberty to name and run his own horse, or 
any other that was duly qualified, provided the owner or 
nominator were not a defaulter, or otherwise incapacitated 
from doing so by the rules of racing. 
I must guard myself from being understood to propose that 
nominators should run their horses in each other's names as 
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