80 RULES NATIONAL 



Sit once pull them to the gait in which they were to go the 

 race, and any party failing to comply with this require- 

 ment, if he come out ahead, shall lose the heat, and the 

 next best horse shall win the heat ; and wheiher such 

 breaking horse come out ahead or not, all other horses 

 shall be placed ahead of him in that heat, and the Judges 

 shall have discretionary power to distance the offending 

 horse or horses, and the rider or driver may be punished 

 by a fine not to exceed $ioo, or by suspension not ex- 

 ceeding one year. 



Sec 2. Should the rider or driver comply with this 

 requirement, and the hors^ should gam by a break, twice 

 the distance so gained shall be taken from him at the 

 coming out; but this provision must not be so construed 

 as to shield any trotting or pacing horse from punishment 

 for running. 



Sec. 3. In case of any horse (in trotting race) repeat- 

 edly breaking, or running, or pacing, while another horse 

 is trotting, the Judges shall punish the horse so breaking, 

 running, or pacmg, by placing him last in the heat. 



Sec. 4. To assist in determining the matters con- 

 tained in Sections i, 2, and 3, it shall be the duty of one 

 of the Judges to call out during the progress of the race 

 every break made, designating by colors or name the horse 

 making it and the character of the break, and a Judge or 

 assistant shall at once note the fact in writing. 



Sec. 5. A horse breaking at or near the score 

 shall be subject to no greater penalty than if he broke on 

 any other part of the track. 



Rule 31. — Relative to Heats and Horses Eligible 

 TO Start. 

 Section i. In heats one, two, three, or four miles, a 

 horse not winning one heat in three shall not start for a 

 fourth, unless such horse shall have made a dead heat. 

 In heats best three in five, a horse not winning a heat in 

 the first five shall not start for a sixth, unless said horse 

 shall have made a dead heat, but horses so ruled out shall 



