meeting 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.

beaten
horses.

61. Any horse running for a selling stake or plate is Claim 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.

62. No person can claim more than one horse in the

same race.

63. If two or more persons equally entitled wish to claim, they shall draw lots for the priority.

Extra Weights and Allowances.

64. When it is a condition of any race that horses should carry extra weight for winning a certain number of prizes during the year, such winnings shall date from the 1st of January preceding, shall extend to the time of starting, unless otherwise specified, and shall apply to all established races in any country.

No penalty shall be inflicted for running second in any race, save and except that horses, which have received 100 sov. for being placed, may be debarred, by the conditions of any particular race, from receiving maiden allowances.

No allowance shall be made for having been beaten. When any race is in dispute both the horse that came in first and any horse claiming the race shall be liable to all the penalties attaching to the winner of that race till the matter is decided.

65. Extra weights and allowances are not accumuative, unless so specified in the conditions.

66. Horses do not carry extra weight for winning a match, and are not entitled to allowance for having

been beaten in a match.

The winner of a private handicap race shall be exempted from the penalty of carrying extra weight in all public handicaps, the terms of which impose on winners of handicaps certain penalties for winning after a specified date.

NOTE.-By a private handicap is meant one in which the weights are agreed upon among the par

of

Value of

calculated.

ties to it, and which has not been publicly advertised previous to the engagement being made.

Winners of hurdle races are not considered winners in flat racing.

67. A horse walking over or receiving forfeit, except for a match, is deemed a winner.

68. In estimating the value of any prize no deducprizes, how tion shall be made, except 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.

Objections to Qualification.

69. When the age or qualification 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 expense 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.

70. 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 and except 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.

71. 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.

72. 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 these 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 these Rules are in force.

73. The Judge and the Starter cannot employ substitutes without the consent of the Stewards, or their substitutes. A contested race cannot be decided if the Judge have vacated his box, unless a Steward, or an official person duly authorised, occupy it. A stranger cannot start the horses without the consent of the Stewards, or their substitutes; in the event of a violation of this rule, the heat is nullified and the race must be run over again without going to the scales.

74. If any person shall be detected watching a trial, or shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards of the Jockey Club to have employed any person to watch a trial, or to have obtained surreptitiously information respecting a trial from any person or persons engaged in it, or in the service of the trainer of the horses tried, he shall be deemed to have been guilty of a corrupt practice on the Turf, and shall be warned off Newmarket Heath, and all race courses where the Newmarket Rules are in force.

Objections to when to be qualification made.

Presents to
Judge, Start-

er, or Handi-
capper not

allowed.

New rules.

75. No person who has been warned off Newmarket Heath for corrupt practices upon the turf, and no jockey who has been suspended from riding for a similar reason, shall be permitted to enter the Stands, Enclosures, Saddling Paddocks, or Weighing Rooms, at any meeting which is held under the Rules of Racing, as established by the Jockey Club at Newmarket, so long as the sentence against them remains in force.

76. Neither the programme nor the result of any flat race meeting in Great Britain shall be published in the Official Racing Calendar, unless the said meeting is advertised to be subject to the established rules of racing as settled by the Jockey Club.

Any horse running for a flat race on any course where the programme is not previously published in the Official Calendar shall be disqualified from entering or running at any meeting where the established rules of racing are in force.

77. No new Rule of Racing can be passed, or any existing rule be rescinded or altered without being previously advertised three times in the Sheet Racing Calendar, and notice given of the meeting of the Jockey Club at which it is to be proposed; any owner of race-horses or person affected by such new rule or alteration may petition the Jockey Club, through the Secretary; all such petitions to be read at the meeting before the question is put.

RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

JOCKEY CLUB.

[These are only applicable to races run at Newmarket.]

Respecting the Stewards.

1. The three Stewards of the Jockey Club shall be continued in their office till the next annual financial meeting (which takes place in the Craven) when the senior Steward shall vacate after settling the accounts made up to the 31st of December preceding, and shall then name a member of the Jockey Club to succeed him, subject to the approbation of the Members of the Jockey Club then present, and at every subsequent financial meeting the senior Steward shall, in like manner, retire and propose his successor.

Mode of annual election.

death resignation.

2. If any of the Stewards shall die or resign, the In remaining Stewards may appoint a member of the Club to succeed the deceased or declining Steward, but such nomination shall be notified to the Club at the first general meeting, and if the appointment meet their approval, the said member shall remain in office until the expiration of his predecessor's time.

for absen Stewards.

3. When only one Steward is present, and neither of Substitut the absent Stewards shall have appointed a substitute, the member of the Jockey Club present who has last served the office shall act ex officio.

4. The three Stewards shall have the power of appointing all the public officers and the servants of the Club; the Keeper of the Match-book to receive the stakes and collect the entrance-money, and all other funds belonging to the Jockey Club; and the Stewards shall produce an account of the funds and disbursements of the Club at the annual financial meeting, and they shall be responsible to the Club for the correctness of the annual accounts, and for all the money collected as belonging to the Jockey Club.

TheStewards have power ---to appoint officers: