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it over to the owner of the beaten horse'; but if 

 such horse shall have lost such race, his owner 

 shall not be entitled to claim, or to be repaid 

 his stake or deposit for such race ; and in 

 those cases such disqualifications shall attach to 

 the horse without regard to any change of the 

 property in him ; and if, with respect to the dis- 

 qualifications, there shall be any difficulty in 

 ascertaining the horse or horses tried, the owner 

 of the horse or horses so tried shall be bound, 

 on the request of the stewards, to declare to 

 them which of his horses ran in such trial ; and 

 in case he shall decline to do so, the stewards 

 shall have the power to fix the disqualification 

 upon any one or more of the horses of such owner 

 at their option. 



35. No notice of trial shall be required, when 

 the trial is run at a greater distance than twenty- 

 five miles from Newmarket. 



36. The day, with respect to the engaging of 

 the ground for trial, shall be divided into two pe- 

 riods ; that is, previously to eight o'clock in the 

 morning, and subsequently to two in the afternoon, 

 from the first day of the Craven meeting to the 

 end of the Houghton meeting ; and previously to 

 nine o'clock in the morning and subsequently to 

 two in the afternoon during the rest of the year. 

 No one stable-keeper shall engage the ground for 

 both those periods on the same day, nor for more 

 than two of those periods in the same week. 



