ftO THE HORSE. 



,niy shall start again. Such horses as are prevented fom starting by this R le, saal) 

 e considered DRAWN and not DISTANCED. 



20. If two horses each win a heat, and neither are distanced in the race, they are 

 equal ; if neither win a heat, and neither distanced, they are equal ; but if one wins 

 a heat, and the other does not, the winner of a heat is best, unless he shall be dis- 

 tanced subsequently, in which case the other, if not distanced, shall be the best. A 

 horse that wins a heat and is distanced, is better than one not making a heat and 

 oeing distanced. A horse distanced the second heat, than one distanced the firs 

 beat,&c. 



21. Horses drawn before the conclusion of a race, shall be considered distanced 



22. Horses that forfeit, are the beaten horses, when it is pay or play. 



23. All bets are understood to relate to the Purse, Match, or Stake, if nothing i 

 said to the contrary. 



24. A confirmed bet cannot be let off without mutual consent. If either party be 

 absent at the time of trotting, and the money be not staked, the party present may 

 declare the bet void, in the presence of the Judges, unless some party will stake the 

 money betted for the absentee. 



25. A bet made on a heat to come, is no bet, if ALL the horses qualified to start do 

 not ; unless the bet be between such horses as do start. A bet made after the heat 

 is over, is void, if the horse bet upon does not start. 



26. The person who bets the odds, has a right to choose the horse or the field. 

 When he has chosen his horse, the field is what starts against him ; but there is nc 

 field unless one starts with him. If odds are bet without naming the horses before the 

 trot is over, it must be determined as the odds were at the time of making it. Bets 

 made in trotting are not determined till the Purse is won, if the heat is not specified 

 at the time of betting. Bets made between particular horses are void, if neither of 

 them be winner, unless specified to the contrary. 



27. All bets made on horses precluded from starting, by (Rule No. 19,) being 

 distanced in the race ; or on such horses against each other, shall be drawn. 



28. All engagements are void upon the decease of either party, before being de- 

 termined. 



Under the preceding Rules, the following performances have been achieved, 

 according to the official record the New York Spirit of the Times. 



It may be proper, however, for the due appreciation of the performances included 

 in these tables, to make some preliminary remarks upon weights carried by trotting 

 horses, and on their comparative speed in harness and under the saddle, &c. The 

 weight carried on the Northern courses, where a majority of our trotting takes place, 

 is 145 pounds, without any distinction for age or sex ; and the same weight has to 

 be carried by the driver, exclusive of the weights of his sulky or match-cart, as by 

 the same jockey in the saddle. These match-carts are of the neatest construction, 

 and weigh generally nearly ninety pounds, though they often weigh twenty pounds 

 less, and there are one or two which weigh but fifty-three pounds ! ^ut the mere 

 weight to be carried or drawn by a trotter, is much less regarded by the sportsman 

 than in the case of the race-horse. On the Hunting Park Course, near Philadelphia, 

 the weight was formerly 147 pounds in the saddle, and in harness catch-weights, but 

 they have now adopted the New York scale. But in far the greater number of the 

 cases below, unless the weight be expressly named, it may be presumed to be from 

 145 to 155 pounds. Hiram Woodruff weighs without his saddle 160 pounds. On 

 the Beacon and Centrcville Courses, pacers are allowed five pounds, and wagons, in 

 distinction from sulkeys or match-carts, must weigh 250 pounds. 



As a matter of course, from the difference of weights carried along by him, the 

 trotter generally makes better time under the saddle than in harness, though there 

 are some exceptions to this rule. Another consideration has great influence upon 

 this difference in time. Under the saddle, the jockey can hug the pole of our oval- 

 shapcd courses more closely than in harness, and thus he actually goes over less 

 m-ound. And for an obvious reason the speed of a horse in going " round .he turns' 

 l more retarded in a sulkey than under the saddle. As before stated, no allowance 

 M' weights is made for age, and in consequence no note is taken of the nge of trotter* 

 u official reports of their performances. 



