362 EACING, WAGERS AND GAMING. 



setting up such games or lotteries, and a penalty of 50?. 

 on every person adventuring at them (q). An Act was 

 also passed to make more effectual 33 Hen. 8, c. 9 (r) ; 

 and another to prevent the selling chances in foreign 

 lotteries (s). 



It was found after the passing of 9 Anne, c. 14, that 

 the number of horse races had very much increased ; and 

 in consequence of their being run under 101. a-side, and 

 therefore for small plates, they had contributed very much 

 to the encouragement of idleness, and the breed of strong 

 and useful horses was supposed to have been much pre- 

 judiced. The legislature, endeavouring to remedy these 

 evils, passed 13 Geo. 2, c. 19, in a.d. 1740, which was 

 " An Act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of 

 horse races." By this Act all horses were to be entered 

 by their real owners, and no person was to start more than 

 one for the same plate, under pain of forfeiting the horse (t). 

 'No plate was to be run for under the value of 50/., and 

 any person starting a horse for a plate of smaller value 

 was to forfeit 200/., and any person advertising such a 

 race was subject to the penalty of 100/. (u). An arbi- 

 trary standard of weights was fixed : a five-year- old horse 

 was to carry ten stone, a six- year-old eleven stone, and a 

 seven-year-old twelve stone, under a penalty of 200/. (x), 

 and every race was to be begun and ended in the same 

 day (y). The entrance money was to be repaid to the 

 second best horse (s). And gifts left for annual races were 

 not to be altered {a). 



There appears to have been a distinction in this statute 

 between a match and a race, for at whatever place a race 

 might be run, it must always have been for a plate of 50/. 

 or upwards (b). But it seems that a match was either to be 

 run at Newmarket or Black Hambleton, or the plate was to 

 be worth 50/. or upwards (c). This Act also prohibited a 

 game called passage, which had just then been invented, 

 and was in great vogue, and also aU games with dice except 

 backgammon (d). 



These enactments with regard to weights were probably 

 found so very inconvenient and useless, that in a.d. 1745, 



(q) 12 Geo. 2, c. 28, ss. 1, 2, 3. (x) Ibid. s. 3. 



()•) 2 Geo. 2, c. 28, s. 9, Appendix. (y) Ibid. 5. i. 



(s) 6 Geo. 2, c. 35, ss. 29, 30. (z) 13 Geo. 2, c. 19, s. 7. 



(t) 13 Geo. 2, c. 19, repealed in so («) Ibid. o. 8. 



far as it relates to horse-racing by 3 [b) Ibid. s. 2. 



& 4 Vict. c. 5. (c) Ibid. s. 5. 



{u) 13 Geo. 2, c. 19, s. 2. {d) Ibid. ». 9, Appendix. 



