THE LAWS OF RACING, BETTING, &c. RULES CONCERNING HORSE-RACING IN GENERAL 1. Race-horses take their ages from the 1st January. 2. [Catch Weights.] Catch Weights are, each party to appoint a person to ride without weighing. 3. Feather.] A feather weight shall be considered 5st. Tlb., and the usual declaration must be made when the jockey carries more than that weight. 4. [Maiden Horses.] A maiden horse or mare is one that has never won a plateor sweepstakes in any country. 5.[Plates.] A plate is any prize given to be run for, without any stake being made by the owners of the horses to go to the winner. 6. For a plate, no person can run, either in his own name or in that of any other person, two horses of which he is wholly or in part owner, unless permitted to do so by a special clause in the conditions. 7. [Sweepstakes.] Where a stake is deposited by the owners of the horses, which is to go to the winner, such race is a sweepstakes; and if an additional sum of money, cup, piece of plate, or other reward be offered to the winner, the race is still a sweepstakes, though such addition should be denominated a plate by the donor. Three subscribers make a sweepstakes; and if a stake has the required number of subscribers at the expiration of the time of closing, and the number is afterwards reduced by death (or, in the case of a produce take, by failure of produce), the race is not void as long as there are two horses left, the property of dif ferent persons; and if the number is reduced to two it 4 still a sweepstakes. 8. [Post Match or Sweepstakes.] For a post match or weepstakes each subscriber names two or more horses of the proper age, but can only run one, unless a greater number is allowed by the conditions of the 12. [Description necessary.] In all nominations for sweepstakes and plates, the horse or mare entered must be clearly identified. The name of the sire and dam must be given, and if the dam has no name in the Racing Calendar or Stud Book, such further pedigree and description must be added as will distinguish the horse intended to be named from any other of a similar pedigree. If the dam was covered by more than one stallion, the names of all of them must be mentioned. 13. [When the Name is sufficient.] If a horse has once been entered with his name and pedigree in a race published in the Racing Calendar, it will be sufficient afterwards to mention him by his name only, even though he has never started, and in entering a horse for the first time by his name in several races closing at the same time, it will be sufficient to give his pedi. gree in one of these nominations, and his name only in the others. If the name of a horse which has run be changed, it is necessary in entering the said horse to give his old as well as his new name in every nomination, until the change has been duly registered in the Book Calendar and if his name be changed again, all his names must be repeated for a like period: but if horse's name, be changed before he has run in public, it shall be sufficient to give his new name in the first entry made after such change, 14. [When the Age must be mentioned.] In naming for a race in which horses of different ages are admitted the age of the horse named must be mentioned. No yearlings can run for public stakes, and no horse which has run for a yearling stake is qualified to run afterwards at any place where these rules are in force. 15. [Nomination of Foreign Horse.] No horse foaled out of the United Kingdom shall run for any race until his owner has produced a certificate of some racing club of the country where the horse was foaled, or from the mayor or other public officer of the district, stating the age, pedigree, and colour of the horse, and the marks by which it is distinguished. 16. [Incorrect or insufficient Description a Disqualification.] If any horse, &c., shall be named or entered without being identified as before directed, he shall not be allowed to start in the race, but his owner shall be liable to pay the forfeit, or if a play or pay race, the whole stake. 17. Fraudulent Entry a Perpetual Disqualification.] If a horse shall fraudulently run, or be entered to run, for any race by a false description, such horse is thenceforth disqualified for running in any race; and the owner shall be compelled to return any sum of money won in plates, matches, or sweepstakes (whether handicap or not) which the said horse may have won. When a horse has been struck out of an engagement by the person legally entitled to do so, if the horse be permitted to start by mistake for the said engagement, he shall not be entitled to receive the prize though he come in first; and if he have been allowed to start in cousequence of fraud or misrepresentation on the part of the owner or other person having charge of the horse, that person shall be warned off Newmarket Heath, and the horse shall be disqualified from running for any public race thereafter. 18. [Qualification Dates from Time of Closing.] In naming or entering for any race where there shall be any particular conditions required as a qualification to start, it shall be sufficient if the horse were qualified at the expiration of the time allowed for naming or entering, and he shall not be disqualified by anything which may happen after the expiration of that time, unless so specified in the article; or unless he becomes disqualified under the rules relating to defaulters. If a brood mare engaged in a produce stake drops her foal before the 1st of January the nomination is void, and if she has a dead foal er is barren the nomination is void. 19. [Nominations not to be Changed after Closing.] No person who has once subscribed to a stake shall be allowed to withdraw his name, and no nomination shall be altered in any respect after the time of closing, without the consent of all the parties in the race. 20. [Exception to preceding Rule.] When a person takes a nomination for a stake in which the forfeit is to be declared by a particular time, and does not declare forfeit by the time fixed in the article, he shall thenceforth be considered to have taken the engagement on himself, and his name shall be substituted for that of the original subscriber. 21.[Use of Fictitious Names.] When any person enters a horse, or subscribes to a stake under a fictitious name, or in the name of a person not fully identified at the time, he shall be considered in all respects as the owner of the horse, and as the subscriber to the stake; and in the event of the forfeit not being paid, his real name shall be published in the Forfeit List. Every person who wishes not to engage his horses in his own name must adopt some one name, which must be registered at Messrs. Weatherby's office; and he cannot enter in any other until the change is duly notified to them, and the change shall be noticed in the first Sheet Calendar published after the receipt of such notification by Messrs. Weatherby. No person who enters horses in an assumed name shall be allowed to adopt and register as such the same name as that of any gentleman who runs his horses in his own name. A fee of one sovereign is to be paid on each regis tration, which shall be carried to the credit of the Bentinck Benevolent Fund. 22. [Nominations not required to be made on Sunday When the day fixed for the closing or naming for an stake, or for declaring ferfeit or produce, shall fall on Sunday, subscriptions, nominations, or declarations for such stake may be received on the following day, provided that there is an interval of one clear day between the day of closing, naming, or declaring, and the day of running. In case the day fixed for naming for any stake for which nominations are received by Messrs. Weatherby shall fall during a Newmarket race week, nominations may be made to them there, whether so expressed in the advertisement of the stakes or not. 23. [Void by Death.] All nominations are void by the death of the subscriber. 24. [Allowances to Produce of Untried Horses or Mares.] In every sweepstakes in which there shall be an allowance of weight to the produce of untried horses or mares, it shall extend to horses or mares whose produce never won a registered prize in any country, but such allowance shall be claimed by the subscriber before the expiration of the time of naming; and if not so claimed, no allowance shall be made." RESPECTING STAKES AND FORFEITS. 25. [Stakes to be paid before starting.] All stakes shall be made before starting, in cash, bank bills, or bankers' notes payable on demand, and be paid into the hands of the person appointed by the Stewards to receive the same; and in default thereof by any person, he shall pay the whole stake as a loser, whether his horse came in first or not, unless such person shall have previously obtained the consent of the party or parties with whom he is engaged, to his not staking. [And Forfeits in certain cases.] When any person has more than one nomination in a stake, he shall not be allowed to start any horse for it unless the forfeits be paid for every horse which does not start, belonging to him, or standing in his name, or in the same name as the horse which runs, as well as the stakes for those which do. 26. [Arrears of Owner and Namer to be Paid before Starting.] No person shall start a horse for any race, either in his own name or in that of any other person, unless both the owner and namer of such horse shall have paid all former stakes and forfeits. And thisrule shall extend to forfeits due elsewhere than at the place of running, provided a notice of such forfeits being due shall have been published in the Forfeit List, or have been delivered to the Stakeholder or Clerk of the Course by ten o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running. 27. [Arrears Due for a Horse to be Paid before he can Start. No horse shall start for any race unless all former stakes and forfeits due for that horse shall be paid before starting, provided notice has been given as above. 28. [These Rules extend to Ireland.] These rules relative to arrears of stakes and forfeits, extend to forfeits due at the Curragh and other established meetings in Ireland. THE FORFEIT LIST. 29. [To be published in Racing Calendar.] A list of unpaid forfeits, with the names of the subscriber to the stake, and the name or description of the horse, with the name or sufficient description of the stake, and the amount of the forfeit, shall be advertised in the Sheet Racing Calendar after the Newmarket July and Houghton Meetings every year. and should any such horse be discovered to have run and come in first, he shall be liable to be objected to at any time within six calendar months. 33. [ Suspected Nominations may be struck out.] In or der to prevent persons who are defaulters from evading these laws, and continuing to engage horses by the use of fictitious names, the Stewards shall have the power of calling upon a nominator to produce satisfactory testimony that the horse named is not the property, either wholly or in part, of any person whose name appears in the advertised list of defaulters, and if the nominator shall fail to do so, the Stewards may cause the nomination to be erased. 34. [Liability for Engagements of Horses sold.] When a horse is sold with his engagements, or any part of them, the seller has not the power of striking the horse out of the engagements with which he is sold; but as the original subscriber remains liable to the respective winners for the amount of the forfeits in each of these engagements, he may, if compelled to pay them by the purchaser's default, place the forfeit on the Forfeit List in the usual manner, as due from the purchaser to himself; and until this forfeit is re paid, both the purchaser and the horse remain under the same disabilities as if the purchaser had been the original subscriber. In all cases of sale by private treaty, the written, acknowledgment of both parties that the horse was sold with the engagement is necessary to entitle either buyer or seller to the benefit of this rule; but when the horse is sold by public auction the advertised con ditions of the sale are sufficient evidence, and if he has been claimed as the winuer of a race of which it was a condition that the winner was to be sold with his engagements, this also is sufficient. 35. When a person has a horse engaged in the name of another person, and is entitled by purchase or other wise to start the horse for such engagement, but is prevented by any of the preceding laws from starting his horse without previously paying up forfeits to which he is not otherwise liable, he may, if he pa these forfeits, start his horse and have the forfeits with the names of the horses for which they are due, placed on the Forfeit List in the usual manner as due to himself. WEIGHING. 36. The name of every horse intended to start must be notified to the Clerk of the Scales, and his number be exhibited one quarter of an hour before the race; and if any alteration be made in the numbers after they have been exhibited, the Stewards may call upen the owner or trainer for an explanation. If this is not satisfactory, the owner, or trainer, or jockey, may be fined, at the discretion of the Stewards, in any sum not exceeding £50, and the horse shall not be allowed to start, nor the jockey to ride again, until the fine is paid. 37. [To weigh before and after the race.] Jockeys a required to weigh at the usual place of weighing before the race, under a penalty not exceeding unless excused by the Stewards for some specis reason, when the fact must be notified to the Clerk of the Scales; and every rider is, immediately after the race, to ride his horse to the usual place of weighing, then and there to alight, and not before, and to weigh to the satisfaction of the person ap pointed for that purpose; and if a jockey, riding beaten horse, does not return to weigh, he shall be 30. [By whom Lists of Forfeits are to be sent for Pub- fined a sum of money not less than £10, or exceeding fication. The person appointed to receive stakes is to £25; and if it can be proved that the owner or traine send to Messrs. Weatherby a list of unpaid forfeits, as connived at this violation of the law, they shall be soon after the races as conveniently may be, in order fined £25 each, and the horse shall be disqualified to that the same may be placed upon the Forfeit List; run in public until all the fines are paid; and if the and if he shall omit to make such last-mentioned re-jockey dismounts before the proper time, or is short of turn within a reasonable time, it may be made by the weight, his horse is disqualified, unless he be disabled respective winners of the races for which the forfeits by an accident to himself or horse which should are due. These returns in all cases to be made in render him incapable of riding back, when he may writing, and signed by the parties making them. I walk or be carried to the scale. 31. [Persons appearing in Forfeit List not entitled to enter. No person whose name shall appear in the published Forfeit List shall be entitled to enter or run horse for any plate, sweepstakes, or subscription, Seither in his own name or in the name of any other person, until he shall have paid up all the forfeits, in respect of which his name appears in the list. 32. [Horses appearing in Forfeit List not qualified to be entered.] No horse which appears in the published Forfeit List shall be qualified to be entered or to run for any race whatever until the forfeits mentioned in the said list as due for such horse shall have been paid, It is optional for the jockey to weigh with his bridle, and the Clerk of the Scales will allow 1lb. for a cur or double bridle, but no weight is allowed for a snaffe bridle unless it is put into the scale before the horse is led away, and no whip, or substitute for a whip, shall be allowed in the scales. *、, 38. [Over-weight.] Each jockey shall be allowed 21b. above the weight specified for his horse to carry and no more, unless a declaration has been made to the Clerk of the Scales of the extra weight the jockey is about to carry, one half hour before the time fixed for the said race, and the extra weight shall be ap pended to the horse's number when it is put up. In default of such declaration the horse carrying more than 2lb. over his specified weight shall be placed as the last horse in the race, the jockey shall be fined £5 for his neglect, and shall not be allowed to ride until the said fine be paid; and the weight each horse actually carried, if more than 21b. above his weight, shall be published in the first list printed after the race, and also in the Racing Calendar. 39. [Raising Weights in Handicaps.] In all handicaps with twenty subscribers, when the highest weight ac cepting is under 8st. 121b., it is to be raised to that weight, and the others in proportion; but in all minor handicaps and in two years old handicaps, when the highest weight accepting is under 8st. 101b., it is to be raised to 8st. 101b., and the others in proportion. 40. No horse shall carry less than 5st. 71b. for any race, and horses which have run in violation of this rule shall not be allowed to run at any place where these rules are in force. STARTING. 41. [Horses going to the Post to be considered Starters.] When the riders of the horses brought out to run for any race are called upon by the person appointed to start them to take their places for that purpose, every horse which comes up to the post shall be liable to his whole stake. 42. [Power of the Starter.] The Starter has authority to order the jockeys to draw up in a line as far behind the starting-post as he may think necessary; and any jockey disobeying the orders of the Starter, or taking any unfair advantage, shall be punished, by fine or suspension, according to the nature and degree of his offence, at the discretion of the Stewards. No ockey can be suspended beyond the meeting at which the offence is committed, unless the case has been heard by the three Stewards of the Jockey Club; and in the absence of any of the Stewards, a member or members of the Jockey Club shall be deputed to act for the Steward or Stewards absent. The punishment inflicted shall not be declared till after the last race of the day on which it is awarded. A sentence duly passed upon a jockey cannot be remitted by the Stewards without the authority of a general meeting of the Jockey Club. The starter is prohibited from making a running start-the horses must walk up, and be started from a walk, and if the starter from negligence or inattention allows a start to take place on the wrong side of the starting-post, he shall be fined a sum of money not exceeding £50, and the start shall be declared null and void. 43. [Foul Riding.] If in running for any race one horse shall jostle or cross another, such horse is disqualified for winning the race, whether such jostle or cross happened by the swerving of the horse, or by the foul and careless riding of the jockey or otherwise; and where one horse crosses the track of another, it is deemed a disqualification, unless he be two clear lengths, or more, before the horse whose track he crosses. And if such cross or jostle shall be proved to have happened through the foul riding of the jockey, he shall be subject to such punishment as the Stewards may think fit to inflict. 44. Horses running on the wrong side of a post and not turning back are disqualified. SECOND HORSE. 45. [Money for Second Horse.] When it is a condition of a stake or plate that the owner of the second horse shall receive a certain sum of money out of the stakes, or out of the plate, and the race is walked over for, or no second horse is placed, the winning horse is entitled to the whole prize. If the money advertised to be given to the second horse is a separate donation from the Race-fund or other source, and the race is walked over for, or no second horse is placed, the money is not given at all. When the entrance money for a plate is advertised to be given to the owner of the second horse, and the plate is walked over for, or no second horse is placed, the entrance money is to be returned. · DEAD HEATS. 46. [When to be run over again.] If for any plate or sweepstakes, not to be run in heats, the first two or more horses shall come in so near together that the Judge shall not be able to decide which won, those horses shall run for such prize over again, after the last race on the same day; the other horses which started are deemed losers, and are entitled to their respective places, as if the race had been finally deter mined the first time. 47. [Effect of Dividing after a Dead Heat.] When horses run a dead heat for a sweepstakes or plate, and the parties agree to divide the stakes, such horses shall be liable to carry extra weight as winners of that race, and if there is any money for the second horse, they divide that also. 48. [Dead Heat for second place.] When horses run a dead heat for the second place they divide any money that may be payable to the second horse; and if there is any money for the third, they divide that also; and if any of these horses run for a race in which there is a penalty for having received a certain amount of money as second horse, they shall be considered as having received only the amount of their respective shares. HEATS. 49. When a race is run in heats, a horse, to win the prize, must be the actual winner of two heats, unless no horse appear against him, when one walk over is sufficient. 50. In running of heats, if it cannot be decided which horse is first, the heat goes for nothing, and they may all start again, except it be between two horses that had each won a heat. 51. When two horses have each won a heat, they only must start for a third, and the preference between them will be determined by it. 52. When a plate is won by two heats, the preference of the horses is determined by the places they get in the second heat. 53. Horses drawn before the plate is won are distanced. 54. No distance in a third heat. 55. No person shall start more than one horse of which he is the owner, either wholly or in part, and either in his own name or that of any other person, for any race for which heats are run. SELLING RACES. 56. [How the Winner is to be Claimed.] When it is made a condition of any plate or sweepstakes that the winner shall be sold for any given sum, the owner of the second horse being first entitled, &c., no other person than one who ran a horse in the race shall be entitled to claim. The claim must be made to the Judge, the Clerk of the Scales, the Clerk of the Course or one of the Stewards present, within a quarter of an hour after the race. The horse claimed shall not be delivered till he is paid for; and he must be paid for by ten o'clock at night on the day of the race, otherthe horse at any future period; but, nevertheless, the wise the party claiming shall not be entitled to demand owner of the winning horse may insist upon the claimant taking and paying for the horse claimed. 57. [Sales by Auction.] When it is a condition of a selling race that the winner shall be put up to auction after the race, the half of any surplus which may thereby be obtained over and above the price for which the horse was entered to be sold shall be paid to the owner of the second horse, and this shall not invali date the privilege of the second horse as to the prior claim of any beaten horse under Rule 57. If at any country meetings the winner of a selling race shall by the terms prescribed be sold by auction, and the moiety of the surplus be not paid to the owner of the second horse, the said winner shall be disqualified for being entered or for running in any race where the Newmarket rules of racing are in force. 58. [Claim of Beaten Horses.] Any horse running for a selling stake or plate is liable to be claimed by the owner of any other horse in the race, for the price for which he is entered to be sold, and the amount of the stake-the owner of the second horse to be first entitled to claim, and the others in the order in which their horses are placed, and the winner to have the last claim. earry extra weight for winning a certain number of prizes during the year, or be allowed weight for having been beaten certain number of times during the year, such winnings and losings shall date from the 1st of January preceding, and shall extend to the time of starting, unless otherwise specified. 62. [Not Accumulative.] Extra weights and allowances are not accumulative, unless so specified in the conditions. 63. Horses do not carry extra weight for winning a match, and are not entitled to allowance for having been beaten in a match. Winners of hurdle races are not considered winners in flat racing. 64. A horse walking over, or receiving forfeit, except for a match, is deemed a winner. 65. [Value of Prizes-how calculated.] In estimating the value of any prize, no deduction shall be made, except of the winner's own stake, and of any sum or sums required by the conditions to be paid out of the stakes to the owners of any other horse or horses in the race. The entrance for a plate not to be deducted. And every prize, not in specie, shall be estimated at its advertised value in sovereigns, and if such value is not designated it shall be taken at the cost price. The winner of the Queen's Vase at Ascot is exempt from any penalty for such winning, unless this prize is specially mentioned in the conditions of the race. OBJECTIONS TO QUALIFICATION. 66. [Examination of Mouth.] When the age or qua Jification of a horse is objected to, either before or after running for any race, the Stewards, or those whom they may appoint, shall have power to order an examination of the horse's mouth by competent persons, and to call for all such evidence as they may require, and their decision shall be final, unless they shall sanction the removal of the question in dispute into a Court of Law. Any person requiring a horse's mouth to be examined, must pay the expenses of such examination, unless the horse is proved to be of the wrong. age, in which case such expense shall be paid by the owner of the said horse. 67. All complaints of foul riding, or of horses not running the proper course, or of any other irregularities occurring in the race, must be made either by the owner, jockey, or groom of the horse, to one of the Stewards, to the Judge of the race, to the Clerk of the Course, or the Clerk of the Scales, within a quarter of an hour after the race. As it is expedient that there should be a statute of limitations with respect to the time of lodging objections against winning horses, no complaints can be entertained after the conclusion of the race meeting, save an dexcept charges of fraudulent entry, or of running horses under a false description, which may be investigated at any period within one year from the date of the offence. 68. [Objection to Qualification when to be made.] When the qualification of any horse is objected to by ten o'clock in the morning of the day of starting, the owner must produce a certificate, or other proper document, to the Steward or Clerk of the Course, or to the Keeper of the Match-book, if the case happen at Newmarket, before the race is run, to prove the qualification of the horse; and if he shall start his horse without so doing, the prize shall be withheld for a period to be fixed upon by the Stewards, at the expiration of which time, if the qualification be not proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards, he shall not be entitled to the prize, though his horse shall have come in first, but it shall be given to the owner of the second horse. When the qualification of a horse is objected to after that time, the person making the objection must prove the disqualification. 69. If it can be proved against any person that he has offered money before or after a race to any judge, starter, or handicapper, or promised any part of the stake or prize, or any share or part of a bet, he shall be warned off the course at Newmarket and other places where the Jockey Club rules are in force; and any judge, starter, or handicapper who shall, before or after a race, demand or receive money of any person, shall be warned off the course at Newmarket and other places where the Jockey Club rules are in force. RULES AND ORDERS OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. 7. [To Postpone Races.] The Stewards have the power, in cases of urgent necessity, of putting off the races from day to day until a Sunday intervenes. 10. [Not to Decide Betting Cases.] The Jockey Club and the Stewards thereof take no cognizance of any disputes or claims with respect to bets. 11. [May Warn off the Course.] The Stewards have a discretionary power to warn any person off the race. course at Newmarket, or any premises belonging to the Jockey Club; and, in case of such notice being disregarded, to take legal proceedings against the offenders. 13. [Act at Epsom and Ascot.] The Stewards of the Jockey Club are, ex officio, Stewards of Epsom and Ascot. THE CUP AND WHIP. 24. [The Cup.] The Cup may be challenged for on the Tuesday or Wednesday in the July Meeting in each year, to run on Thursday in the Houghton Meeting following, B.C., by horses, &c., the property of Members of the Jockey Club, or the Rooms at Newmarket; four year olds carrying 8st7lb, five year olds, 9st llb, six year olds and aged, 9st 4lb. Each person, at the time of challenging, is to subscribe his name to a paper to be hung up in the Coffee-room, at Newmarket, and deliver to the Keeper of the Match-book the name or description of the horse, &c., sealed up, which sha!! be kept till six o'clock on the Saturday evening of that week; and if not accepted, or only one challenger, to be returned unopened; but if accepted, or if more than one challenger, to be then opened and declared i match, or sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, play or pay. If the challenge be not accepted, the Cup to be de livered to the Keeper of the Match-bookin the meeting ensuing the challenge, for the person who may become entitled to the same. 25. [The Whip.] The Whip may be challenged for twice in each year, viz., on the Tuesday after the July Meeting, when the acceptance must be signified, or the Whip resigned on the Tuesday following; or chal lenged for on Monday or Tuesday in the Second Octo ber Meeting, when the acceptance must be signified, or the Whip resigned before the end of the same Meet ing. If challenged for and accepted in July, to be run for on the Tuesday in the Second October Meeting following; and if in the October, on the Thursday in the First Spring Meeting following; B.C.; weight 10st., and to stake 200 sovs. each, play or pay. 35. No races for gentlemen riders are allowed st Newmarket during the regular meetings without the sanction of the Stewards; and, that accorded, such races must be the first or last of the day. 39. No race can be run at Newmarket over a shorter distance than the T.Y.C., with the exception oftwo years old Plates and Stakes run between the commencement of the Craven and the end of the First October Meetings, which may be run on any course not less than half a mile. This rule not to apply to matches or to private sweepstakes of 25 sovs, each or upwards, handicap sweepstakes excepted. RULES ON, BETTING. 1. In all bets there must be a possibility to win when the bet is made; #6 you cannot win when you cannot lose." 2. The interests of the bets are inseparable with the interest of the stakes, except when the winning horse is disqualified owing to a default in making stakes; or if an objection be made to the qualification of a horse on the ground of incorrect pedigree or nomination, after the race is run, the bets shall go to the horse that comes in first, provided he is of the right age, and that in other respects he has not transgressed the rules of racing; but if the owner of a horse, or a per son on his behalf, succeed by fraud or by false state ments in starting him for a race for which he is legally disqualified, making himselfliable to the penalties in Rule 17, Laws of Racing, the bets will go with the stakes, whether any objection be made either before or after the race. " 3. All double bets must be considered "play or pay 4. Confirmed bets cannot be "off" except by mutual consent or by incidents hereafter mentioned, viz.Firstly: Either of the Bettors may demand stakes to be made fourteen days before the race is run, upon proving to the Committee of the Rooms that he has just cause for so doing. If ordered, the bets must be covered on the comparing day, or sufficient security offered, and a person refusing to cover shall be expelled the Subscription Rooms at Tattersall's and Newmarket. Secondly: If a Bettor be absent on the day of running, and there is a just cause to presume that he intends to evade his engagements, a public declaration of the bet must be made in the Ring, a copy of which is to be posted up at the usual place one hour before the race is appointed to be run, and, in the event of no person of known respectability becoming responsible for the same, a written notice must be given to the Clerk of the Course, or to the Clerk of the Stakes, before the race is run, declaring the bet void. 5. All bets on matches and private sweepstakes depending between any two horses shall be void if those horses become the property of the same person, or of his avowed confederate, subsequently to the bets being made. 6. All bets between particular horses shall be void if neither of them win, unless agreed by the parties to the contrary. 7. If any bet shall be made from signal or indication after the race has been determined, such bet shall be considered fraudulent and void. 8. The person who lays the odds has a right to choose a horse or the field; when a person has chosen a horse, the field is what starts against him. 9. If odds are laid without mentioning the horse before the race is over, the bet must be determined by the state of the odds at the time of making it. 10. If a match or sweepstakes be made for any particular day in any race week, and the parties agree to change the day to any other in the same week, all bets must stand; but if the parties agree to run the race in a different week, or to make the slightest difference in the terms of the engagement, all bets made before the alteration are void. 11. Bets made on horses winning any number of races within the year shall be understood as meaning between the 1st January and 31st December. 12. If a bet is made between two horses in a match or sweepstakes with a forfeit affixed, say £100, h. ft., and both horses start, either party may declare forfeit, and the person making such a declaration would pay £50 if the other horse won, but would receive nothing in the event of his horse winning the race. 13. Bets are determined though the horse does not start, when the words "absolutely run or pay," or play or pay," are made use of in betting. 14. Money given to have a bet laid shall not be returned, though the race be not run. 15. When the riders of any horses brought out to run for any race are called upon by the starter to take their places, all bets respecting such horses shall be "play or pay." 16. When horses run a dead heat for a plate or Sweepstakes, and the owners agree to divide, all bets between such horses, or between either of them and the field, must be settled by the money betted being put together and divided between the parties in the same proportion as the stakes. If a bet be made on one of the horses that ran the dead heat against a beaten horse, he who backed the horse that ran the dead heat wins half his bet if his horse received half the prize; if the dead heat be the first event of a double bet, the bet is void unless one horse received above a moiety, which would constitute him, a winner in a double event. 17. The following races shall be considered play.or pay:"The Derby and Oaks, at Epsom; the St. Leger, at Doncaster; the Two Thousand Guineas, the One Thousand Guineas, the Cesarewitch, and Cambridgeshire, at Newmarket; the Ascot, Goodwood, and Doncaster Cups; and all Handicaps above £200 value, with two forfeits, the minor of which shall not be less than £5. And the committees of Tattersall's and of the subscription-room at Newmarket will take no cognisance of any disputes respecting" play or pay" bets on any other races, or of any bets made upon handicap races before the weights for such races are published. 18. If a declared defaulter does not satisfy the claims of his creditors within twelve months, he shall not be entitled to receive any debts which may be due to him for the race for which he was in default; but if his debts are paid within the prescribed time, viz., one year," i. e., 365 days, inclusive of the day when the money was won, the Committee will support his just claims to receive payment from his debtors. " 19. The stewards of races have no authority ex officio to take cognizance of any disputes or claims with respect to bets. this Room will be required to send in to the Committee an application in writing, accompanied by a recommendation (to be also in writing) signed by any two or more Members of the Room, to be posted in the Room for one clear week. At the expiration of that time he will be balloted for by the Committee, three of whom will form a quorum. One black ball in three will exclude. Members of the Jockey Club, and of the Arlington, White's, Brookes's, Boodle's, Arthur's, Guards', and the Travellers' Clubs can be admitted without ballot. 2. Every Member, upon admittance to the Room, must enter his name and address in a Book provided for that purpose, in which these, together with any other rules and regulations from time to time adopted to be observed by the Members, will also be entered; and such signature in the Book so containing the said rules and regulations will make it binding on the party signing, to abide by all such rules and regulations, as well as by all consequences resulting from breach or non-performance thereof; and such signature shall moreover be taken and deemed to absolve every person concerned in carrying out and enforcing such rules and regulations against such Subscriber from all personal responsibility or legal liabilities on that account. 3. No person who shall have made default in payment of stakes, forfeits, or bets, or who shall have been party, at any time, anywhere, to any fraud or malpractice connected with horse-racing, shall be admitted a Member of this Room. And if any Member should be hereafter discovered to have been, or should at any time become a defaulter, or be guilty of any fraud or malpractice as aforesaid, and, upon complaint to the Committee, should be adjudged by them to be so, his membership shall thereupon at once cease and determine, and he shall thenceforward be excluded from the Room, and not be eligible for re-election under three months. 4. Any Member of this Room having a disputed bet with another Member, shall be bound, if required by him, to refer such dispute to two referees (being Members of the Committee), one to be chosen by each party; such referees to appoint an umpire (being also a Member of the Committee) before they proceed to hear the case; or in the event of the referees not agreeing in the choice of an umpire, such umpire to be appointed by the Committee, and the decision of such referees or umpire to be final. Any Member refusing to refer any bet so disputed, or to comply with the decision consequent upon such reference within one calendar month next ensuing after notice of such decision from the referees or umpire, either personally or by letter, to be addressed by post to the residence of such Member as entered in the Subscription Book, shall, upon complaint to the Committee, be deemed to be, and be treated by them as a defaulter under the provisions of the third rule. 5. Any Membersmoking in the Room, or creating any noise, uproar, or disturbance, will thereby forfeit his rights of membership, and render himself liable to immediate expulsion. 6. The Annual Subscription to the Room will be Two Guineas, commencing on the 1st of January. 7. The Room will be opened on every Monday and Thursday throughout the year, at One o'clock in the afternoon; and on every day (excepting Sunday) in the weeks immediately preceding the Epsom and Ascot Meetings, and on any other days that the Committee may consider advisable. 8. The following Members will constitute the COMMITTEE, of whom any five may form a Quorum, except in cases of disputed bets between individuals, or for the election of Members, when three shall be sufficient; and in the event of an equal number of the Committee being present, and of an equal division taking place upon any question, the Chairman pro tempore shall be entitled to a casting vote in addition to his vote as a Member of the Committee. In case of any Member retiring from the Committee, his successor will be nominated by the Committee, so that the original number of Members constituting the Committee may always be kept up, COMMITTEE: His Grace the Duke of Beaufort. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. The Earl of Coventry. The Earl of Westmorland. Viscount Exmouth. Lord Vivian. |