Horse Racing - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: horse racingHorse-racing
Horse-racing, a lawful pastime. By 13 Geo. 2, c. 19, no plates or matches at horse-races under 50l. value could be run, under penalty of 200l. to be paid by the owner of the horse or horses, and 100l. by the advertiser of the plate. This was repealed by 3 & 4 Vict. c. 5. Formerly wagers of not more than 10l. on a legal horse-race could be recovered by action, but now all wagers are void by the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), and 'no better illustration can be given of a wagering contract than a bet on a horse-race', Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co., (1892) 2 QB 490, per Hawkins, J. See also RAE COURSE and GAMING.The horse-racing is a sport which primarily depends on the special ability acquired by training. It is speed and stamina of the horse, acquired by training, which matters. Jockeys are experts in the art of riding. Between two equally fast horses, a better trained jockey can touch the winning post. K.R. Lakshmanan v. State of Tamil Nadu, AIR 1996 SC 1153: (1996) 2 SCC 2...
Handicap horse race
Handicap horse race, the very concept of handicap race goes to show that there is no element at chance in the regular horse-racing. It is a game of skill. Even in a handicap race-despite the assignment of imposts the skill dominates. In any case an occasional handicap race in a race-club cannot change the natural horse-racing from a game of skill to that of chance, K.R. Lakshmanan v. State of Tamil Nandu, AIR 1996 SC 1153 (1165). [Tamil Nadu Gaming Act (3 of 1930), s. 11)]...
Horsy
Pertaining to or suggestive of a horse or of horse racing as horsy manners garments of fantastically horsy fashions...
parimutuel
A form of betting where winners share the total amount wagered in proporation to their bets and less a portion for the management used commonly in betting at horse racing track In parimutuel betting the payoff for a bet does not have fixed odds but depends on the amount bet on each outcome...
Dope book
A chart of previous performances etc of race horses a racing form...
Racer
One who or that which races or contends in a race esp a race horse...
Houyhnhnm
One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities subject to them were Yahoos a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men...
Horse jockey
A professional rider and trainer of race horses...
bangtail
a horse bred for racing...
Produce race
A race to be run by the produce of horses named or described at the time of entry...
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