6o RACING, 



CHAPTER IV. 



RACING OFFICIALS. 



The Rules of Racing enact that the full programme of every 

 meeting must be advertised in the ' Racing Calendar ; ' and 

 furthermore, that the advertisement must state the names of 

 two or more persons as stewards, and of the judge, starter, 

 clerk of the course, handicapper, stakeholder, and clerk of the 

 scales. It is also understood, and indeed specified, that the 

 clerk of the course or corresponding official shall be the sole 

 person responsible to the stewards for the general arrangements 

 of the meeting. 



There must likewise be appointed — subject to the approval 

 of the stewards — an adequate staff of officials for every meeting, 

 of whom the following, as a qualification for office, require an 

 annual licence from the stewards of the Jockey Club, viz. : 

 judge, starter, clerk of the course, handicapper, clerk of the 

 scales, and stakeholder, and one of each shall be named for 

 each meeting advertised in the ' Calendar.' Power is of course 

 given to the stewards to employ an unlicensed deputy in the 

 event of any emergency arising to necessitate it, but in such 

 case they are bound to report to the stewards of the Jockey 

 Club. 



These then are the officials v«rho amongst them have to 

 carry out the whole business of a race-meeting, and of these 

 by far the larger burden of responsibility falls upon the shoul- 

 ders of the clerk of the course. He is himself appointed by 

 the company or committee, or whoever may be the guarantors 



