144 THE HORSE OWXER's 



If these requirements are not complied with on the part 

 of any rider or driver, the Jutlges may not only start the 

 race, or give the Avord without regard to the absence or po- 

 sition of the offending party or parties, but the offender may 

 be punished by a fine not exceeding $100, or by suspension 

 not to exceed one year. 



In all cases the word shall be given from the Judges' 

 stand, and in no instance shall a standing start be given. 



When, through aiiy foalt 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 they are subject, and if such warning is not heeded, 

 they sliall 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 in wiiich they came home in the last 

 heat. AYhen 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 

 coming out on the home stretch, the foremost horse or 

 horses shall keep the positions 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 

 home stretch, without interfering with others, shall be al- 

 lowed 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 home stretch, 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 home 

 stretch, 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 liis stride; neither shall any horse, 

 rid^r or driver, cross, jostle, or strike ano ther horse, rider 



