MISCELLANEOUS. 551 



EULES OF EACING («). 



At a Special Meeting of the Jockey Club, held in London 

 on Monday, the 18th of December, 1876, to take into con- 

 sideration the new Eules of Eacing as submitted by the Com- 

 mittee appointed for that purpose, and discussed during tho 

 preceding Houghton Meeting, it was resolved that the following 

 Eules should come into operation on the 1st of January, 1877, 

 and that all former rules be repealed on and from that day. 



"\* The alterations made in the Eules during the year 1881 

 are printed in italics. 



PAET Contents. 



I. Interpretation and Application of these Rules. 

 II. Management of Race Sleetings and Powers of Stewards. 



III. General Conditions and Restrictions. 



IV. Entiy and Subscription for Races. 

 V. Stakes and Forfeits. 



VI. The Race. 

 VII. Objections and Complaints. 

 VIII. Special Conditions (Claiming and Selling Races ; Produce Races ; 

 Post Races ; Handicaj)s ; Sale with Engagements). 

 IX. Miscellaneous. 



Eules of Eacixg made by the Jockey Club at Newmarket. 

 Part I. — Interpretation and Application of these Rules. 



1. "Eace" includes plate, match or sweepstakes, bvit does General 

 not include or refer to a steeplechase or hurdle race, or a definitions, 

 hunters' race on the flat. 



" Horse" includes mare or gelding. 



"Plate" means a race to be run for money or other prize 

 given without any stake being made by the owners of the 

 horses engaged to go to the winner. 



"Sweepstakes" means a race in which stakes, are to be 

 made by the owners of three or more horses to go to the 

 winner ; and any such race is still a sweepstakes, even although 

 the number is reduced by death to two subs., or although 

 money or any other prize be added, and although tho word 

 " plate" be used in the official or ordinary name or description 

 of such race. 



"Eecognised meeting" or "recognised race," used with 

 reference to a foreign meeting or race, means a meeting or 

 race included in the list of foreign meetings and races to be 

 made as directed in these rules. 



A " maiden" means a horse which has never won a plate or 

 sweepstakes at any meeting in Great Britain, or at any recog- 

 nised meeting in any other country. 



A match at " catch weights" means a match in which the 

 riders need not weigh before or after the race. Catch weights 

 are permissible only for matches. 



" Eegistry office" means such office as is for the time being 

 appointed as the registry office by the Jockey Club ; and ox- 

 (n) From the Racing Calendar, 1881. 



