STEWAEDS. 395 



evidence was admitted to show that the letters " P. P." 

 signified that the parties were bound either to run the 

 match or forfeit the stakes (g). 



So, also, where the race was what is termed a "selling" A "selling" 

 race, evidence was admitted to explain that it meant a ^^°^" 

 race for which horses were entered upon the terms that 

 the horse which won the race was to be sold by auction to 

 the highest bidder, but the owner was only to receive the 

 price put upon the horse when it was entered, the balance 

 going to the racing fund. That horses thus entered were 

 weighted according to the amount put upon them, those of 

 the highest price carrying the greatest weight (h). 



Where by the terms of a race the riders were to be A professional 

 persons who had never ridden as regular Jockeys or paid 3°''™y- 

 riders, it was held by Chief Justice Tindal, in the Court of 

 Common Pleas, that a regular jockey or paid rider is a 

 person who follows the business of a jockey or rider as a 

 means of gaining a livelihood. But that a person who had 

 sometimes received his expenses, but had never been paid 

 for his services, was clearly not disqualified [i). 



Where by the terms of a race the horse must have been Horse regii- 

 regularly hunted with some particular hounds, it is not ^"^Jl'Z Jj""*^*^ 

 necessary to qualify a horse to run that he should have 

 been hunted every day the hounds went out. It is suffi- 

 cient to show that the horse has been hunted /reg'wew^/y, 

 but one day's hunting is decidedly not enough ili). 



Where a match is made for a particular meeting which Match for 

 depends upon weather or other circumstances, of course the ^^g^^ "^ 

 match must be run when such meeting actually takes 

 place. Thus where an agreement in writing was made 

 between the plaintifF and the defendant to run a match 

 with greyhounds " on the Wednesday during the New- 

 market Meeting, 1841, P. P." It appeared that the 

 Newmarket meetings were meetings of a coursing club ; 

 that the power of appointing and adjourning them was 

 vested in the stewards, who were governed by printed 

 rules ; and that the practice of the club was to hold the 

 February meetings on the first or second Tuesday in that 

 month, iveathcr permitting ; and if at the meeting the 

 ground proved unfit for coursing, their practice was to 



(q) Baintreey. Sutehinson, 10 M.. («) Walmesley v. Matthews, 3 



&V. 89. Scott, N". R. 584. 



(h) See Sadland v. Price, Cor. (k) Weller y. Beakins, 2 C. & P. 



Lord Campbell, C.J., Q. B. Sittings, 618. 

 JS^ov. 29, 1853. 



