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Charges at Newmarket.

27. Five pounds per cent. shall be allowed on all Discount on forfeits under 1007. and not less than 207. declared to Forfeits. the Keeper of the Match-book, at or before ten o'clock the evening before runnir g; and if the forfeit amount to 1007. and upwards, 107 per cent. shall be allowed. All forfeits shall be paid before twelve o'clock at night of the day fixed for the race, and on those forfeits which shall not be so paid, the deduction for the timely declaration of such forfeit shall not be allowed.

No horse shall be considered as struck out of his engagement, unless the owner, or some person authorised by him, shall give notice to the Keeper of the Match-book, or to his Clerk, or to one of the Stewards present.

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28. The Stake-holder shall deduct 17. per cent. upon all sums won at Newmarket in sweepstakes or matches, plates. where the clear sum to be received by the winner, over and above his own stake, shall amount to 1007. or more (unless the winner shall object to allowing such deduction to be made) and the money so raised shall be added to the funds of the Club.

29. The Stake-holder at Newmarket is allowed to retain, out of the stakes in his hands, the following fees for his trouble, viz.

For every match, one pound.

For every plate, one pound.

For every subscription or sweepstakes, where the whole stake exceeds 1007. and does not amount to 10007., two pounds.

For every sweepstakes where the whole stake amounts to 1000l. or upwards, five pounds.

[The charges for stake-holding at Ascot and Goodwood are the same as at Newmarket, with the exception of handicaps, for which the charge is one per cent.]

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30. The Keeper of the Match-book is entitled to Fees for nocharge a fee of 2s. 6d. on all nominations at New- minations. market, if published in the Racing Calendar before running, but not on the entries which are made at Newmarket during the week of running.

31. The weighing fee for plates and stakes is 10s. Weighing each horse, and 108. extra for the winner; the former fees. is to be paid to the Keeper of the Match-book at the same time with the stakes, and for plates at the time of entry.

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The Keeper of the Match-book shall charge the proprietors of such horses as receive forfeit, and shall be excused from appearing, with the same fees for weights and scales as if they had come over the Course. No weighing fee is charged for matches.

32. Towards defraying the expense of repairing the Course and Exercise-ground, four guineas annually shall be paid in respect of every horse that shall be trained at Newmarket, and one guinea annually for every horse that goes there for any race-meeting and uses the ground for exercise, or runs any private trial or public race thereon. Any horse remaining at Newmarket more than six weeks, including either the Spring or three October Meetings, or more than three weeks in July, shall be considered as trained at Newmarket, and be liable for the full Heath Tax, but no horse remaining a less time than three weeks, whether during the race time or not, shall be charged more than one guinea. All yearlings broken on the Heath and Exercise Ground to be charged two guineas. And the same shall be paid by the stablekeeper or servant having the care of such horse, and be charged by him to the owner of such horse. The Stewards shall make such orders as they think fit relative to the returns to be made by the stable-keepers or servants, of horses under their care, and if any stable-keeper or servant shall fail to make a true return according to this order, he will be surcharged one guinea for each horse omitted in his list.

N.B.-At present all trainers are required to send in on the 1st of February, a list of the horses which have been unlr their charge from the 1st of January, and on the 1st of every succeeding month a list of any additional horses that have been under their care since the preceding return.

33. Every trainer who wishes to train horses on the train at New lands belonging to, or in the occupation of, the Jockey Club, must apply annually to the Stewards for a licence, and on making such application must specify the horses then under his charge, and the names of their owners.

A trainer shall be liable to have his licence withdrawn for breaking the rules laid down by the Stewards for the management of the ground, or for any miscondnct on the Turf, or in matters connected with it, and the prohibition to use the lands of the Jockey

Club attached to the refusal or withdrawal of a licence shall extend to the Race meetings.

The payment of Heath Tax shall not be taken to confer on the person paying the same any legal rights which shall interfere or be inconsistent with the absolute control the Club now has over all persons using or going on to their grounds.

Should the Stewards find it necessary to refuse or withdraw a licence from any trainer, they will report that they have done so at the next General Meeting of the Club.

34. When a plate given from the funds of the Jockey Club is walked over for, only half the amount is paid, and if a sweepstakes to which money is added by the Jockey Club is walked over for, only half the added money shall be paid.

Relating to other matters not before specified.

35. Every groom shall have his horse at the post, ready to start, at the time appointed by the Stewards; and every jockey is to be there, ready to start at the same time. Every groom or jockey making default herein shall forfeit 57., to be paid to the Keeper of the Match-book, and by him accounted for to the Stewards.

The person appointed to start the horses shall mark in his list the time when the horses in each race actually started; and if there have been any false starts, the first of them shall be considered as the time of starting for that race, and he shall make a report thereof to the Keeper of the Match-book in the afternoon of the day the races are run. And if any delay shall have taken place, he shall state by whom, or by what cause, the delay was occasioned. He shall regulate his watch by the Coffee-room clock, which shall be considered as the true time for this purpose.

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36. No races for gentlemen riders are allowed at Races for Newmarket during the regular meetings without the Gentlemen sanction of the Stewards, and, that accorded, such races Riders. must be the first or last of the day.

37. Any member of a Racing Club riding in with the leading horses in a race shall be fined to the amount of 257., and all other persons to the amount of 51.

Raising weights in handicaps.

38. Rule 42, concerning Hoi se-Racing in general, extends at Newmarket to the highest weight left in at ten o'clock the preceding ever ing in handicaps for plates and stakes, where there is no declaration of forfeit, and where the weights are fixed the night before running.

39. No trainer shall engage any lad, or other stable servant, without previously referring to his last employer, and receiving a satisfactory reply. Any trainer infringing this rule shall not be allowed to train horses at Newmarket, or at other meetings where the Newmarket Rules are enforced.

Any boy prevented from obtaining employment by this rule shall have the right of appeal to the Stewards for an enquiry.

Every jockey at the termination of his apprenticeship is free to form engagements for himself, irrespective of any which may have been made for him during such apprenticeship.

40. No rule or alteration of a rule of the Jockey Club takes effect until it has been published in the Racing Calendar, unless specially ordered to the contrary at the time the said rule cr alteration is adopted; and no new rule of the Jockey Club can be passed, and no rule be rescinded without previous notice being given in the Sheet Racing Calendar, nor at any meeting at which less than nine members are present.

1875.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOCKEY CLUD DURING THE YEAR, ABRIDGED FROM THE SHEET

CALENDAR.

The Annual General Meeting was held at Newmarket on Wednesday in the Craven Meeting, April 14th.

Ld Falmouth read to the meeting the alterations and additions to the Rules, of which the Stewards had given noticestating the reasons for their being proposed, and they were all passed unanimously, with the exception of the alteration to Rule 60, which was adjourned for further consideration till the next meeting.

Rule 10. To substitute in second paragraph the weight 8st 12lb for 8st 10lb.

Rule 30. To add at the end, the words "as well as to forfeits due at meetings under the Grand National Steeple Chase Rules."

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Rules 34 and 35. To insert after the words Forfeit List, 'or Steeple Chase Forfeit List."

Rule 43. To omit last paragraph.

Rule 51. Instead of the words, "run for a race in which there is a penalty for having received a certain amount of money as second horse," to substitute, "run for a race in which there is an allowance for horses that have not received a certain sum for being second."

Rule 64. In the last clause, to omit the words, "a certain number of times."

To add the following New rule." That, in future, no person who has been warned off Newmarket Heath for

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