Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-09-21
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THURSDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 81, 1885.


the Laws OF hnchk'
Lord st. Vincent sold horse called Ctdr-
ton, o. he states, without his engagements
and, subsequently to the sale, struck MIN
out Of all those epgsgements, the Hun,
tiuRdoushire Stakes, OF course, included
in the number. On such grounds OF dis
qualification, II was quite clear that Cldr-
Ton copld have no right TO start for that |
race, aud that, II he did so, he not only |
would be debarred from receiving the stakes,
but would be liable to q fine forgalloping |
with the horses on the course, II II were
desirable to treat him as an intruder. In |
point Of fact, II Lord 81. Vincent possess
sed the right TO scratch the horse, he had |
no more business on the course during the
running of the Huntingdonshire Stakes,
than the once celebrated charger of the |
lamented Gomersall, of amPhitheatrical
notoriety. Regardless Of this view Of the
case. Ciaaton Is sent 10 the post for the
race in question-nobody objects to his
number, or his start-and he wins; Suspi-
cion being second. Oh ascertainiug that
Clarion had been previously struck out
by Lord St. Vincent the owner OF Suspicion
claims the stakes, and they ara awarded
to him by the Stewards of the Huntington
Races, the competent authorities to decide
the question. SO far, SO good; they had,
we presume, the necessary evidence be-
fore them, and believing Clorton to have
been sold without his engagements, they
properly decided that he was out Of race
from beginning to end. We do not well
see how they could have done otherwise
But now comes another phase of the
question. Gentlemen no longer race for
the stakes; they are not content to win
few hundreds, or to take the odds Of the
prizes to their entrance fees; neither have
they any longer the power of settling such
matters among themselves. No; the mighty
British public has usurped an interest in
the horse, and for its sake 1t is desirable
to know whether Smith Is to pay Jones
few hlndreds which he had laid on Suspi-
eion against a field In which competent
Judges have decided that CllIton had no
right TO appear. 1t would certainly have
simplifed matters ifthe Jockey Club had
been followed by Tattersalls in ignoring
all disputes relative to bets upon horse
racing But the committee Of Tattersall's
have not been so wise in their generation
and have consequently involved themselves
In grave and cisagreeable dilemma When
ever two or more gamblers see 1t TO call in
their assistance.
In accordance with this principle, two Of
the committee-Lord Westmoreland and
Mr.. George Payne-were envited to decide
whether the hackers of Clarion were to
receive from, or to pay TO-, Suspicion, or
whether all bets became void. There is a
rule of betting which states that "Bets are
inseparable from the interests Of the STAKE },
except when the winning horse is disqual
flied owing to default in making stakes"
30, good easy folks waited a decision in
favor of the hackers of Suspicion, and
were not prepared to submit without o
murmer to an adverse opinion. Lord
Westmorland and Mr.. Payne, however,
have decreed that the bets shall 20 to Clax.
ton, who came in first, in despite of the
Judgment of the stewards, who have given
the stakes TO Suspicion, who was behind
him.
Then there arose cry throughout the
land! Lord Westmorland and Mr.. Payne,
with discretion worthy of higher cause,
have hitherto declined to state the prem
ises by which they arrived at their conclu.
sion; and in the absence of that satisfac-
tory information, the British public clam
CURED for Admiral Rous. When a man
goes in search of fox, he sometimes has
to regret the success with which his search
Is rewarded; and they who only want Il
hear the tiger roar, have been, before now,
made acquainted with his f,ngs. The
Admiral was not long in responding to the
call; and endorses the decision with agene.
raj explanation of the grounds on which
1t was come to. If Admiral Rous be an
infallible judge of such matters, nothing
more need be said. If the racing laws
with regard to gambling were framed by
him, he ought to be capable OF understand,
ing his own meaning, and VIC believe
him to be quite honest enough to explain
1t properly; but we cannot allow a Ques
ton to be thus settled, even by such al
authority, which, al its present crisis, in
wolves the most start. ug contradiction o
common sense and language. We shal
not be satisfied till further evidence and
further argument be adduced on both sides
for there can be no doubt that the opinion
expires 1ed by Admiral Rous on the present
case is Numerically opposed to his opin-
ion on O similar one at the Goth page of the
Saws and Practice of Horse racing"
aud which has been most aptly quoted
. ,ainst him in a letter to the Times. For
these reasons we are rejoiced to ind that
the question Is to be reopened before the
full committee of Tattersall's during the
Doncaster week, when we hope that de-
cision will be arrived at, more consonant
with general opinion. The dispute, us fal
as 1t has now gone, Is dependent upon the
sort of disqualification under which ClaJ
ton labored. "If an objection be made,
says Admiral Rous, in clause ofthe Sc
cond rule, "to the qualification of a hors,
on He gFoHfH % incorrect pedtSTe Ut HOHtt
nation, after the raceis run, the bets shall
go to the horse that comes in first,
&C., &c. We are compelled here to disa
gree with SO eminent an authority. Cur
TOMS disqualification is of another kind alto
Rether; 1t arises from his having beef
struck out of the race by the man who wai
liable for the forfeit, thus making hin
morally defunct; and weshould dread les
aprecedent of this sort should only opel
fresh veins for the working of chlcaner,
in a mine which appears already to be on
ly too we'll worked by labOrers of yer,
INSCRIPTIONS class .-Lo,,don Field, al
gust %.
A MOTHERS LOVE. Il havestood besid
the mother when the terrifying intelligence