396 RACING, STAKEHOLDERS AND STEWARDS. 



adjourn to a given day, or the first open day. At the 

 time when the contract in question was made, the day 

 appointed for the Fehruary meeting was Tuesday the 

 2nd of February, 1841. On Wednesday the 3rd, the 

 plaintiff and defendant were there, but frost prevented the 

 meeting from being then held, and it was adjourned to 

 Tuesday the 9th, weatlier permitting. The frost, however, 

 continued beyond that day, and the meeting was ultimately 

 held on Tuesday the 16th. On Wednesday the 17th the 

 plaintiff came with his dog ready to run the match, but 

 defendant did not appear. 



It was held, first, that the construction of the contract 

 was, that the match should be run on the Wednesday during 

 the February meeting, whenever it should be actually 

 held, and that the plaintiff' performed his part of the con- 

 tract by being ready to run on Wednesday the 17th ; 

 secondly, that the plaintiff was not bound to produce the 

 printed rules, but that it was enough for him to show that 

 the February meeting was then actually held ; and also 

 that evidence was admissible to show what the parties 

 intended by the letters "P. P." subjoined to the agree- 

 ment (/). 

 Ordering off The Steward of a race-course can order any person off the 



stand^^"*^ grand stand or inclosure, though he has paid for his ticket ; 



but in such case the steward or his agent had better tender 

 the price of the ticket to the party at the time of giving him 

 notice to quit the stand or inclosure to which the ticket 

 has given him admittance. But the person who sold it 

 to him should return the money, for otherwise the holder 

 of it would probably have a right of action against the 

 person from whom he had purchased it, or against those 

 who had authorized its being issued and sold ; such action 

 however would be founded on a breach of contract, and not 

 on his having acquired by the ticket any right to go on the 

 stand or inclosure in spite of the owner of the soil. The 

 authority of the steward was confirmed in the folio wdng case, 

 where the question was fully discussed before the Court of 

 Exchequer. 



In 1843, Lord Eglinton being steward of Doncaster 

 races, tickets were sold in Doncaster at one guinea each, 

 which were understood to entitle the holders to admission 

 into the grand stand and its inclosure, and to remain there 

 during the races. They were issued with Lord Eglinton's 



{J) Baintree v. Hutchinson, 10 M. & W. 87, 89. 



