British sport past and present . RACING bay mare was thrown down by a jostle and killed, and the rider,Mr. Scott, violently bruised. Again at Loughrea, Co. Galway,in August of the same year, Mr. Dalys Gelding was throwndown in the third heat and killed by the fall. Such incidents grow rarer as we look through the Calendars,and twenty years later their total cessation suggests thatcrossing and jostling had been given up in Ireland also. Matches formed a prominent feature of most meetings inthe latter half of the eighteenth century. Taking a Calendarat random (it happens to be that of 1772) and
British sport past and present . RACING bay mare was thrown down by a jostle and killed, and the rider,Mr. Scott, violently bruised. Again at Loughrea, Co. Galway,in August of the same year, Mr. Dalys Gelding was throwndown in the third heat and killed by the fall. Such incidents grow rarer as we look through the Calendars,and twenty years later their total cessation suggests thatcrossing and jostling had been given up in Ireland also. Matches formed a prominent feature of most meetings inthe latter half of the eighteenth century. Taking a Calendarat random (it happens to be that of 1772) and turning to theNewmarket Second Spring meeting, we find that the six daysracing, 11th to 16th May inclusive, consisted of fifteen sweep-stakes, subscriptions and plates, and twenty-nine matches ;while in eighteen other matches which had been arrangedforfeit was paid. At most meetings the stake was usuallythe £50 minimum allowed by law (13 Geo. ii., c. 19), and thebig prize of the meeting fortunate enough to secure it was aRoyal
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