BETTING RULES. 95 



No. 9. If in any case the Judges declare a heat null 

 and void, it does not affect the bets as in case of a dead 

 heat as to winning in straight heats. 



No. 10. When a race is coming off, and a party bets 

 that a heat will be made in two minutes and thirty sec- 

 onds (2.30), and they make two thirty (2.30) or less, he 

 would wm. If he bets they will beat two minutes and 

 thirty seconds (2.30), and they make exactly two thirty 

 (2.30), he loses; but if he takes two minutes and thirty 

 seconds (2.30), against the field, and they make exactly 

 two thirty (2.30), it is a tie or draw bet. All time bets to 

 be decided accordingly. 



No. II. In a double event — where there is no action 

 on the first race m order, in consequence of forfeit or 

 other cause, the bet is off; but where there is an action 

 on the bet, and the party betting on the double event 

 shall have won the first, the bet shall then stand as a play 

 or pay bet for the second event. 



No. 12. If a bet should be made during the contest of 

 a heat that a named horse will win that heat, and he 

 makes a dead heat, the bet is drawn, but if, after the 

 horses have passed the score, a party bets that a certain 

 named horse has won the heat, and the Judges declare it 

 a dead heat, the backer of the named horse loses. 



No. 13. In races between two or more horses, of a 

 single dash at any distance, which result in a dead heat, 

 it is a draw between the horses making the dead heat, and 

 bets between them are off; and if it is sweepstakes, the 

 money of the beaten horses is to be divided between the 

 horses making the dead heat. 



No. 14. When a bettor undertakes to place the horses 

 in a race, he must give a specified place, as first, second, 

 third, and so on. The word "last" shall not be construed 

 to mean "fourth and distanced," if four start, but "fourth" 

 only, and so on. A distanced horse must be placed 

 "distanced." 



No. 15. Horses shall be placed in a race and bets 

 decided as they are placed in the official record of the 



