Horse-racing: Its History and Early Records of the Principal and Other Race Meetings : with Anecdotes, EtcSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1863 - 446 strani |
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100 guineas action alluded amount amusement annually Answer.-Yes appears Ascot bell betting breed Charles Charles II Chester considered course Courser Court Derby day Doncaster doubt Duke Duke of York England English Epsom evidence fact favour fillies gaming gentlemen George II give given Grand Stand ground guineas handicap heat held honour horse horse-racing House House of Lords interest Jockey Club King King's Knavesmire Leger Lord Lord G Majesty mare match matter meeting miles Newmarket occasion owner particulars parties Pasha pastime penalty period person plate present day Prince prize proceedings purpose Queen's Plates question Qui Tam actions race-course race-horse regard reign respect ride riders Roodee Royal says shillings silver bell speaking sport stakes starters stewards stud subscribers sum of money sweepstakes taken Thornton tion town Turf wager weight winner winning York
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Stran 93 - That all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any Court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Stran 70 - ... any person or persons whatsoever, where the whole or any part of the consideration of such conveyances or securities shall be for any money, or other valuable thing whatsoever, won by gaming or playing at cards, dice, tables, tennis, bowls, or other game or games whatsoever, or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do...
Stran 92 - That every person who shall by any fraud, or unlawful device, or ill practice in playing at or with cards, dice, tables, or other game, or in bearing a part in the stakes, wagers, or adventures, or in betting on the sides or hands of them that do play, or in wagering on the event of any game, sport, pastime, or exercise...
Stran 21 - Three jockeys, or sometimes only two, as the match is made, prepare themselves for the contest ; such as being used to ride know how to manage their horses with judgment : the grand point is, to prevent a competitor from getting before them.
Stran 95 - ... such person shall be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction (with or without hard labour), as to the justice or justices shall seem meet, for any term not exceeding two calendar months...
Stran 47 - ... and balladines to win their bread with: but the exercises that I would have you to use, although but moderately, not making a craft of them, are, running, leaping, wrestling, fencing, dancing, and playing at the caitch, or tennise, archerie, palle-malle, and such like other fair and pleasant field-games.
Stran 99 - ... calendar month at least before prosecuting the same, nor unless such action, suit, information, or other proceeding, shall be brought or commenced within three calendar months next after the act or omission complained of, or in case there shall be a continuation of damage, then within three calendar months next after the doing such damage shall have ceased.
Stran 46 - Good Mr. Jowler, we pray you speak to the King (for he hears you every day, and so doth he not us) that it will please his Majesty to go back to London, for else the country will be undone ; all our provision is spent already, and we are not able to entertain him longer.
Stran 65 - ... at any one time or meeting, upon ticket or credit or otherwise, and shall not pay down the same at the time when he or they shall...
Stran 65 - ... pounds, to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record...