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surplus (in the case of a selling race) shall be divided between 

 those horses and the Eace Fund. 



Produce Races. 



43. (i.) A produce race is one for which horses are named Produce 

 by whose produce the race is to be run. Races. 



(ii.) The produce is entered by entering the dam and sire, 

 or sires; 



(iii.) If the produce of a mare be dropped before the 1st of 

 January, or if there be no produce, or if the produce be dead 

 when dropped, the entry of such mare is void, and the 

 entrance money (if any) shall be returned. 



(iv.) Conditions of a produce race referring to allowances 

 to the produce of untried horses, extend only to the produce 

 of horses whose produce never won- a recognized race in any 

 country up to the day previous to that fixed for claiming 

 allowances, and any such allowance must be claimed before 

 the expiration of the time for naming. 



Post Races. 



44. A post race is a race for which a subscriber must enter Post Races. 

 two or more horses, and may run any one or more of them, 



as the conditions prescribe. 



Handicaps. 



45. (i.) A "handicap" is a race in which the weights Handicarps. 

 which the horses are to carry are to be adjusted after the 



time limited for entering or naming according to the handi- 

 capper's judgment of the merits of the horses, for the purpose 

 of equalizing their chances of winning. 



(ii.) In a handicap (other than a free handicap) the horses 

 must be entered in the usual way, and the person entering a 

 horse becomes liable for the stake or forfeit whether he 

 accepts or not. 



(iii.) A free handicap is one in which no liability for stake 

 or forfeit is incurred until acceptance, and no entry need be 

 made ; and acceptance shall be considered as equivalent to an 

 entry and as a representation that the horse is of the age and 

 description stated in the list of weights ; and if the horse be 

 not in fact of that age and description he shall be disqualified. 



There shall not be a greater difference than 4st. 71b. between 

 the highest and lowest weight in a handicap to which there is 

 a second forfeit. 



Sale with Engagements. 



46. "When a horse is sold with his engagements, or any Liability for 

 part of them, the seller cannot strike the horse out of any of engagements 

 such engagements, and he remaiils liable for the amount of ^'^ liorses sold. 

 the forfeits in each of the engagements, but he may, if 



