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Part Yl.—The Race. 

 Weighing out and starting. 



31. (i.) A horse sliall not be qualified to run in a race Weighing- out 

 unless Ms name has been notified, as a starter to the clerk of ^'^^ starting, 

 the scales on the day of the race, and his number exhibited 

 one quarter of an hour before the time appointed for the race. 

 If any alteration be made in a number after it has been ex- 

 hibited, the stewards may call upon the owner, trainer, or 

 jockey, for an explanation, and if no satisfactory explanation 

 be given, the owner, trainer, or jockey, may be fined, and the 

 horse shall not be allowed to start nor the jockey to ride again 

 until the fine is paid. 



(ii.) Every jockey who is to ride in the race shall weigh at 

 the appointed or usual place, unless especially excused by the 

 Stewards. 



(iii.) No person shall, without special leave from the 

 Stewards in writing, be admitted to the weighing-room except 

 the owner, trainer and jockey, or other person having the care 

 of a horse engaged in the race. 



(iv.) If a jockey intend to carry overweight exceeding by 

 more than two pounds the weight at which his horse is to run, 

 he must declare the amount of such overweight. The declara- 

 tion must be made to the clerk of the scales not later than 

 twenty minutes before the time appointed for the start ; and 

 the clerk shall exhibit the amount of such extra weight with 

 the number of the horse. 



(v.) If a horse carry more than two pounds overweight, 

 which has not been duly declared, he is disqualified, unless the 

 Steivards he satisfied that such excess of iceight has been caused 

 hy ivet weather. 



(vi.) Any overweight exceeding two pounds which has been 

 carried, whether it has been duly declared or the horse has 

 been disqualified, shall be published in the "Racing Calen- 

 dar," and the clerk of the scales shall send a return thereof to 

 the Registry Office. 



(vii.) Every trainer shall have his horse at the post, ready 

 to start, at the time appointed by the Stewards ; and every 

 jockey is to be there, ready to start at the same time. Every 

 trainer or jockey making default herein shall be fined. 



(viii.) The horses must be started by the official starter or 

 his authorized deputy or substitute. No horse when once 

 under the starter's hands shall be allowed to go back and 

 correct his weight, unless some accident has occurred to him. 



(ix.) The starter may give all such orders and take all such 

 measures as are necessary for securing a fair start ; and in 

 particular he may, if he think it necessary, order the horses 

 to be drawn up in a line as far behind the starting post as he 

 thinks necessary. 



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