MISCELLANEOUS. 559 



A subscriber to a sweepstakes is liable for the stake or* 

 forfeit ; but if be transfer the right of entry to any other per- 

 son he is liable only in case of default by the transferee, and 

 in that case he may recover it from the transferee. 



A person taking an entry under another person's subscrip- 

 tion, where forfeit must be declared by a particular time, if he 

 do not declare forfeit by that time, shall be considered to have 

 taken the engagement upon himself, and the original sub- 

 scriber shall cease to be liable. • 



28. Entrance money, stakes and forfeits must be paid in Payment and 

 cash (if required) to the clerk of the course or authorized application 

 stakeholder. If any clerk of the course allow a horse to start ?* _^*'?'|^*^^ ^^'^ 

 in a race without his stake for that race having been paid, 



such clerk shall be liable for it himself. 



Stakes and forfeits in a race belong to the winner, except as 

 otherwise declared in the conditions, and the stakeholder shall 

 render an account to him, or his agent, and pay over all stakes 

 and added money within fifteen days of the conclusion of the 

 meeting. If the race be never run or be void, they shall be 

 returned. 



Entrance money shall be paid into the race-fund of the 

 meeting, except in the case of a sweepstakes where no money 

 or less than 501. is given from the race-fund or other public 

 source, in which case the entrance money shall go to the 

 winner, or to some other horse or horses in the race. 



29. Ahorse shall not start for a race unless there have been Stake, arrears, 

 duly paid before weighing (1) any stake, entrance money or fee ^'^^ jockey's 

 payable in respect of that race ; (2) all arrears due from any . T^"®.^ ^^° 

 person for such horse, or due for the same or any other horse startinf^"^*^ 

 from any person by whom such horse is wholly or partly 



owned, or in whose name or under whose subscription he is 

 entered, and (3) the jockey's fee under Eule 53. 



In this rule " arrears" includes any sums payable for fines, 

 fees, entrance money, stakes, or forfeits in respect of any race 

 at the same or any other meeting in the United Kingdom, and 

 any sum in respect of which a person has been declared a de- 

 faulter : Provided that arrears of forfeits in respect of a meet- 

 ing at any other place than the place at which the race is run 

 shall not be included, unless notice of such forfeits being over- 

 due has been published in the Unpaid Forfeit List or Steeple 

 Chase Forfeit List, or delivered in writing, signed by the party 

 claiming the arrears, to the clerk of the course or stakeholder 

 or to the person indebted, before ten in the evening preceding 

 the race. 



This rule shall apply to arrears at the Curragh and other 

 recognized meetings in Ireland, or at any steej^lechase meeting 

 in the United Kingdom held under the Grand National 

 Steeplechase Eules, or Irish National Hunt Steeple Chase 

 Eules. 



