46 THE HORSE. 



To wit, Jockey cap, coloured jacket, pantaloons, and boots. Liveries to be recorded 

 in the Secretary's Book, and not permitted to be assumed by others. 



Rule 36th. Every rider after a heat is ended must repair to the Judges' stand, and 

 i.ot dismount from his horse until so ordered by the Judges, and then themselves 

 carry their saddles to the scales to be weighed, nor shall any groom or other person, 

 approach or touch any horse until after his rider shall have dismounted and removed 

 his saddle from the horse by order of the Judges. A rider dismounting without such 

 permission, or wanting more than one pound of his proper weight, shall be declared 

 distanced. 



Rule 37th. The horse who has won a heat shall be entitled to the track in the 

 next heat, and the foremost be entitled to any part of the track, he leaving sufficient 

 space for a horse to pass him on the outside. But he shall not when locked by another 

 horse leave the track he may be running in to press him to the inside or outside, and 

 having selected his position in a straight stretch, he shall not leave it so as to press 

 his adversary to either side, the doing of either of which shall be deemed foul riding. 

 Should any rider cross, jostle or strike an adversary or horse, or run on his heels 

 intentionally, or do anything else that may impede the progress of his adversary, he 

 will be deemed distanced although he may come out ahead, and the race awarded to 

 the next best horse. Any rider offending against this rule, shall never be permitted 

 to ride over or attend any horse on this Course again. 



Rule 38th. Every horse that shall fail to run outside of every pole, shall be deemed 

 distanced, although he may come out ahead, and the race shall be awarded to the 

 next best horse. 



Rule 39th. If a rider fall from his horse, and another person of sufficient weight 

 rides the horse in to the Judges' stand, he shall be considered as though the rider had 

 not fallen provided he returns to the place where the rider fell. 



Rule 40th. A horse that does not win one heat out of three heats, shall not be 

 allowed to start for the fourth heat, although he may have saved his distance, but 

 shall be considered better than a horse that is distanced in the third heat. 



Rule 41s/. A distanced horse in a dead heat shall not be allowed to start again in 

 Ihe race. 



Rule 42d. When a dead heat is made, all the horses not distanced in the dead 

 heat, may start again, unless the dead heat be made by two horses, that, if either had 

 been winner of the heat the race would have been decided ; in which case the two 

 only must start to decide which shall be entitled to the purse or stake. Such horses 

 as are prevented from starting by this Rule shall be considered drawn, and all bets 

 made on them against each other shall be drawn, excepting those that are distanced. 



Rule 43d. A horse receiving forfeit, or walking over, shall not be deemed a 

 winner. 



Rule 44th. A bet made after the heat is over, if the horse betted on does not start 

 again, is no bet. 



Rule 45th. A confirmed bet cannot be off without mutual consent. 



Rule 46th. If either party be absent on the day of a race, and the money be no 4 

 staked, the party present may declare the bet void in the presence of the Judges, 

 oefore the race commences ; but if any person present offer to stake for an absentee, 

 it is a confirmed bet. 



Rule 47th. A bet made on a heat to come, is no bet, unless all the horses qualified 

 to start shall run, and unless the bet be between such named horses as do start. 



Rule 48th. The person who bets the odds may choose the horse or the field : when 

 he has chosen his horse, the field is what starts against him, but there is no field 

 unless one starts against him. 



Rule 49th. If odds are bet without naming the horses before the race is over, it 

 must be determined as the odds were at the time of naming it. 



Rule 50th. Bets made in running, are not determined till the purse is won, if the 

 heat is not specified at the time of betting. 



Rule 51s/. Bets made on particular horses are void, if neither of them be the 

 vinner of the race, unless specified to the contrary. 



Rule 5%d. Hoises that forfeit are beaten horses, where it is play or pay, and no' 

 otherwise. 



