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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 



Form 2. 



Certificate of Qualification for National Hunt Flat Races (see Qualification 

 for National Hunt Flat Races). 



We, the undersigned, Stewards of the Meeting, hereby certify 



that Mr 's has this day been placed in the 



Steeple Chase, and has jumped all the fences and completed 

 the whole distance of the race to our satisfaction. 



Signed, 



Date 1 8 Address, 



Signed, 

 Address, 



* # * This certificate must be lodged with Messrs Weatherby and Sons, 6 Old 

 Burlington Street, London, W., one clear week before the horse is to run, with a 

 fee of 53. for registration. 



RULES ON BETTING. 



Although the Stewards of the Jockey Club take no cognisance of betting, yet, 

 for the convenience of such persons as are interested in the subject, we subjoin a 

 copy of the Rules as re-arranged by the Committee of the Subscription Rooms, 

 at Tattersali's, on February 8, 1886. 



The Committee of Tattersali's and the Committee of the Newmarket Rooms 

 have authority to settle all questions relating to bets, to adjudicate on all cases of 

 default, and, at their discretion, to report defaulters and persons guilty of any mal- 

 practice to the Jockey Club. In the following rules the words " the Committee " 

 refer to either of those bodies. 



2. In all bets there must be a possibility to win when the bet is made : " you 

 cannot win when you cannot lose." No betting first past the post will be recog- 

 nised by either of the Committees. 



3. All bets are P.P. play or pay with the following exceptions I. When 

 the nominator dies before the decision of the race. 2. When the race is post- 

 poned to a future week, or the conditions are altered after the bets are made. 3. 

 Bets on matches. 4. Bets made after the running numbers are telegraphed about 

 a horse that is not subsequently under the starter's orders. 



4. If no objection is lodged within seven days of the race, exclusive of the day 

 on which the race was run, bets go to the horse placed first by the Judge, and the 

 settling, except in cases of fraud, shall not be disturbed. If an objection is made 

 within the said time, bets go with stakes. 



5. Bets made on one horse against another, or that one horse beats another, 

 are determined if either of them should win : unless agreed by the parties, it is not 

 indispensable that both horses should start. Bets made between horses I, 2, 3 are 

 determined by the places assigned by the Judge it is not necessary to say the 

 best of I, 2, 3. 



6. If odds are laid in running or immediately after the horses pass the post, 

 and a dead heat is the result : and in " double events," if either is decided in the 

 backer's favour, and the other results in a dead heat, the money betted must be 

 put together and equally divided. As, according to racing custom, matches 

 which result in a dead heat are void, bets are void also. 



7. If a bet is made on one of the horses that runs a dead heat against a beaten 

 horse, and the owners agree to divide, he who backed the horse that ran the dead 

 heat wins half his bet. "if odds are laid on one horse against another 1,2, 3, and 

 they run a dead heat for either place, the money betted must be put together and 

 equally divided. 



8. The person who lays the odds has the right to choose a horse or the field ; 

 when a person has chosen a horse, the field is what starts against him. If odds 

 are laid without mentioning the horse before the race is over, the bet must be 

 determined by the state of the odds at the time of making it. 



