7. 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. 8. Where a stake is deposited by the owners of the Sweepstakes. 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 stake, by failure of produce), the race is not void as long as there are two horses left, the property of different persons, and if the number is reduced to two it is still a sweepstakes. When the public money added to a sweepstakes is less than 50 sor. all forfeits and entrance money shall go to the winner, or some other horse engaged in the race. 9. For a post match or sweepstakes 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 race. 10. When any match or sweepstakes shall be made, and no weight mentioned, the horses shall carry 8st 10th each, and if any weight is given the highest weight shall be 8st 10lb. Post Match or Sweepstakes. Omissions, how supplied ---of weight: 11. When any match or sweepstakes shall be made of Course ; and no Course mentioned, the Course shall be that which is usually run by horses of the same age as those engaged, viz: If at Newmarket, Y.C. R.M. D.I. B.C. If four yrs old, two miles If five yrs old or upwards, four miles And if the horses should be of different ages, the Course shall be fixed by the age of the youngest. -of day. Description necessary. When the name is sufficient. When the age must be mentioned. 12. If no day is mentioned for a race it shall be run on the last day of the meeting, unless otherwise agreed by all the subscribers. As to Nominations. 13. 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. 14. 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 pedigree 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 the like period: but if a 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. 15. 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 Two yrs old can run before May the 1st. No Two years old shall run in any handicap before the 1st of October, and then only with horses of the same age. No Two years old shall run more than six furlongs for any plate or sweepstakes. No Three years old or upwards shall run a shorter distance than five furlongs for any plate or sweepstakes. 16. 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; 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 certifi cate 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. 17. 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. 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 Qualification dates from time of closing. Nominations not to be changed after closing. Exception to preceding rule. Use of ficti tious names. 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. 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. 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 shall 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 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 1 sov. to the Bentinck Fund must be paid at each time of registration, and he must run in that name only. No person to change his assumed name once registered, under a penalty of 10 sov. to the same Fund. 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 preriously 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. 24. All nominations are void by the death of the subscriber. 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 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. Nominations not required to be made on Sunday. Void by death. Allowances to produce of untried horses or mares. 26. All stakes shall be made before starting, in cash, Stakes to be bank bills, or bankers' notes, payable on demand, and paid before be paid into the hands of the person appointed by the starting; 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. cases. When any person has more than one nomination in and forfeit 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. |