Rules of Racing. 133 



Respecting Stakes and Forfeits. 



25. All stakes shall be made before start- stakes to be 

 ing, in cash, bank-bills, or bankers' notes, starting; 

 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 ob- 

 tained the consent of the party or parties with 

 whom he is engaged to his not staking. 



When any person has more than one nomi- and forfeit in 

 nation 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, be- 

 longing 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. No person shall start a horse for any Arrears of 



..... . ... . owner and 



race, either in his own name or in that ot any namer to be 



,,.,., n paid before 



other person, unless both the owner and namer starting. 

 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 

 Stakeholder or Clerk of the Course by ten 

 o'clock in the evening preceding the day of 

 running. 



