16. No horse foaled out of the United Kingdom shall Nomination of foreign run for any race until his owner has produced a cerhorses. tificate 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; and also a certificate of the horse's age, signed by a Veterinary Surgeon, being a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, or holding the Highland and Agricultural Society's Diploma. Such person to be approved of by the Stewards, and the said certificates to be lodged at Messrs Weatherby's office in London. No horse, though foaled in the United Kingdom, which has been exported before running in any public race, and is afterwards brought into this country to run, shall be qualified to start until the owner or person in charge of the horse has produced a certificate of his age, signed as above. The production of these certificates shall not preclude the Stewards from ordering an examination of the horse's mouth by a Veterinary Surgeon appointed by themselves, as provided in Rule 69, if they shall see reason for so doing. Incorrect or insufficient description a 17. If any horse, &c. shall be named or entered without being identified as before directed, he shall be disqualified, but his owner shall be liable to pay disqualificathe forfeit, or, if a play or pay race, the whole stake. 18. If a horse should 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 consequence 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. tion. Qualification dates from time of closing. Nominations not to be changed after closing. Exception to preceding rule. Use of ficti 19. 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 have a dead foal or be barren the nomination is void. 20. 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, and in Free handicaps an acceptance shall be considered a nomination. No post entries shall be allowed. 21. 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 shail thenceforth be considered to have taken the engagement on himself, and his name shall be substituted for that of the original subscriber. 22. Every person who wishes to engage his horses tious names. in any other name than his own must assume some one other name, which must be registered annually at Messrs Weatherby's Office; a fee of ten guineas must be paid at each time of registration, and he must run in that name only, and if the person registering is a Member of the Jockey Club, the fee is fifty guineas. No person to change his assumed name once registered, under a penalty of 10 sov. A per-centage on the sum so collected is to be paid to the Bentinck Benevolent Fund, and the remainder to the Racing Fund of the Jockey Club. The person registering the assumed name shall be considered in all respects as the owner of the horse entered in it, and in the event of the forfeit not being paid, his real name shall be published in the Forfeit List. No person shall register as an assumed name that of any person who runs his horses in his own name, or an assumed name pre viously adopted. Any horse running in any other name than that of his owner shall be disqualified, unless the name is registered as above. This rule not to prevent a person, who has subscribed to a stake, from giving his nomination, provided the real or registered name of the owner appear in the entry. 23. When the day fixed for the closing or naming for any stake, or for declaring forfeit 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. Nominations not required on Sunday. to be made 24. All nominations are void by the death of the Void by death. subscriber. Allowances to produce of untried hor 25. 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 ses or mares. 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. 26. 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. Stakes to be paid before starting; cases. forfeit When any person has more than one nomination in and a stake, he shall not be allowed to start any horse for in certain 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. Arrears of owner and namer to be paid before starting. Arrears due for a horse to bepaid before he can start. These rules extend to Ireland. To be published in Racing Calendar. 27. Entrances to plates, and to sweepstakes, where there is an entrance to go to the fund, are payable at the time of nomination; but if payment is not then insisted upon, they may be claimed afterwards under Rule 28, and published in the Forfeit List like unpaid forfeits. 28. 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 this rule 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 Stake-holder or Clerk of the Course by ten o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running. 29. 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. 30. These rules, relative to arrears of stakes and forfeits, extend to forfeits due at The Curragh and other established Meetings in Ireland, as well as to forfeits due at meetings under the Grand National Steeple Chase Rules. 31. No person convicted of any fraudulent practices on the Turf, and no person that has been reported by the Committee of the Subscription Rooms at Newmarket or at Messrs Tattersall's as being a defaulter in bets, shall be permitted to name, enter, or run, either in his own name, or in that of any other person, any horse of which he is either wholly or in part owner, for any race whatever. The Jockey Club will not enforce the penalties imposed by this Rule for default in bets made after July 8th, 1868, unless the complaint shall have been lodged with the Committee of the Subscription Betting Rooms at Tattersall's or at Newmarket within three months of the bets being due. The Forfeit List. 32. A list of unpaid forfeits, with the name 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. Forfeits once published in the Forfeit List must be paid direct to Messrs Weatherby, and cannot be struck out till this is done. 33. The person appointed to receive stakes is to send to Messrs Weatherby a list of unpaid forfeits, as soon after the race as conveniently may be, in order that the same may be placed upon the Forfeit List; and if he shall omit to make such last-mentioned return within a reasonable time, it may be made by the respective winners of the races for which the forfeits are due. These returns in all cases to be made in writing, and signed by the parties making them. 34. No person whose name shall appear in the published Forfeit List or Steeple Chase Forfeit List shall be entitled to enter or run a horse for any plate, sweepstakes, or subscription, either 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. 35. No horse which appears in the published Forfeit List or Steeple Chase 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; 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. By whom Lists of Forfeits are to be sent for publication. Persons appearing in not entitled to enter. Forfeit List Horses appearing in Forfeit List not qualified to be entered. nominations may be struck out. 36. In order to prevent persons who are defaulters Suspected 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. sold. horses 37. When a horse is sold with his engagements, or Liability for any part of them, the seller has not the power of engagements striking the horse out of the engagements with which of 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 repaid, both the purchaser and the horse remain under the same disabilities as if the purchaser had been the original subscriber. |