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Clause of 13 Geo. 2. c. 19. recited,
and repealed after 24 June, 1745.
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11. And whereas in an Act passed in the thirteenth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled “An Act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an Act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled ‘An Act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming,’” it is (among other things) enacted, that from and after the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and forty, no horse, mare, or gelding, being of the age of five years, shall be entered, started, or run for any plate, prize, sum of money, or other thing whatsoever, unless such horse, mare, or gelding shall carry ten stone weight, computing fourteen pounds to each stone weight; and that no horse, mare, or gelding, being of the age of six years, shall be entered, started, or run for any plate, prize, sum of money, or other thing whatsoever, unless such horse, mare, or gelding shall carry eleven stone, computing fourteen pounds to each stone weight; and that no horse, mare, or gelding, being of the age of seven years, shall be entered, started, or run for any plate, prize, sum of money, or other thing whatsoever, unless such horse, mare, or gelding shall carry twelve stone weight, computing fourteen pounds to each stone weight; and in case any person or persons shall enter, start, or run any horse, mare, or gelding, of either of the ages aforesaid, for any plate, prize, sum of money, or other thing, carrying less than the weights herein-before directed to be carried, such horse, mare, or gelding, or the value thereof, shall be forfeited, and the person or persons so entering, starting, or running such horse, mare, or gelding shall forfeit and lose the sum of two hundred pounds: And whereas the thirteen royal plates of one hundred guineas each, annually run for, as also the high prices that are constantly given for horses of strength and size, are sufficient to encourage breeders to raise their cattle to the utmost size and strength possible: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons, from and after the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, to run any match, or to start and run for any plate, prize, sum of money, or other thing of the real and intrinsick value of fifty pounds or upwards, at any weights whatsoever, and at any place or places whatsoever, without incurring or being liable to the penalty or penalties in the said Act of the thirteenth year of his Majesty's reign, relating to weights as afore-mentioned, and in the same manner as might have been done if the said Act had never been made, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding
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