RULES OF THE COURSE. 529 



In all cases, the starting word or signal shall be given from the Judges' stand, and 

 in no instance shall a standing start be given. 



When, through any fault of either horse, rider, or driver, the Judges are prevented 

 from giving a fair and prompt start, they shall warn the faulty party of the penalties 

 to which he is subject, and if such warning is not heeded, they shall rigidly enforce 

 said penalties. 



The horse winning a heat shall take the pole (or inside position) the succeeding 

 heat, and all others shall take their positions in the order assigned them in judging 

 the last heat. When two or more horses shall make a dead heat, the horses shall 

 start for the succeeding heat in the same positions they occupied at the finish of the 

 dead heat. 



In comlftg out on the homestretch the foremost horse or horses shall keep the posi- 

 tions first selected, or be liable to be distanced ; and the hindmost horse or horses, 

 when there is sufficient room to pass on the inside or anywhere on the homestretch, 

 without interfering with others, shall be allowed to do so, and any party interfering 

 to prevent him or them shall be distanced. 



If a horse, in attempting to pass another on the homestretch, should at any time 

 cross or swerve, so as to impede the progress of a horse behind him, he shall not be 

 entitled to win that heat. 



Although a leading horse is entitled to any part of the track, except after selecting 

 his position on the homestretch, he shall not change from the right to the left, or 

 from the inner to the outer side of the track, during any part of the race, when 

 another horse is so near him that in altering his position he compels the horse behind 

 him to shorten his stride, or causes the rider or driver of such other horse to pull him 

 out of his stride; neither shall any horse, rider, or driver, cross, jostle, or strike another 

 horse, rider, or driver, nor swerve or do any other thing that impedes the progress of 

 another horse ; nor shall any horse, in passing a leading horse, take the track of the 

 other horse so soon after getting the lead as to cause the horse passed to shorten his 

 stride. 



In any heat wherein there shall be a violation of any of these restrictions, the 

 offending horse shall not be entitled to win the heat, and he shall be placed behind 

 all other horses in that heat. And if the impropriety was intentional on the part of 

 the rider or driver, the offending horse may be distanced, and the rider or driver shall 

 be suspended or expelled. [See also Rule 48.] 



RULE 30. Horses Breaking. When any horse or horses break from their gait in 

 trotting or pacing, their riders or drivers shall at once pull them to the gait in which 

 they were to go the race, and any party failing to comply with this requirement, if he 

 come out ahead, shall lose the heat, and the next best horse shall win the heat ; and 

 whether 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 $100, or by suspension not exceeding one year. 



Should the rider or driver comply with this requirement, and the horse should gain 

 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. 



