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CHAPTER IV. 



RACING OFFICIALS. 



RULE IV. of Racing, sec. i, enacts, that the full programme 

 of every meeting must be advertised in the ' Racing Calendar;' 

 then, in sec. 2, goes on to say 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, and furthermore it says 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. 



Then Rule VIII. sets forth that the stewards shall appoint 

 an adequate staff of officials for every meeting, and that the 

 following officials shall require ' a licence to be granted by the 

 stewards of the Jockey Club annually before they can act ' (the 

 'they' here refers to the officials, not to the stewards of the 

 Jockey Club, but the Rules of Racing are occasionally inde- 

 pendent of the rules of grammar), 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 on emergency, but in such case 

 they are bound to report to the stewards of the Jockey Club. 



These then are the officials who 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 



