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or driver, nor swerve or do any other thing that impedes the 

 progress of another horse ; nor shall any horse, in passing 

 a leading horse, take the track of the other horse so soon 

 after getting the lead as to cause the horse passed to shorten 

 his stride. 



In any heat, wlierein there shall be a violation of any of 

 these restrictions, the offending horse shall not be entitled 

 to win the heat, and he shall be placed behind all other 

 liorses in that heat. And if the impropriety was intentional 

 on the part of the rider or driver, the offending horse may 

 be distanced, and the rider or driver shall be suspended or 

 expelled. [See, also. Rule 48.] 



Rule 30. Horses Breakiiig. When any horse or horses 

 break from their gait in trotting or pacing, their riders or 

 drivers shall at once pull them to the gait in which they 

 were to go the race, and any party refusing or failing to 

 comply with this requirement, if he come out ahead, shall 

 lose the heat, and the next best horse shall win the heat, and 

 whether the breaking horse come out ahead or not, all other 

 horses shall be placed ahead of him in that heat, and the 

 Judges shall have discretionary power to distance the offend- 

 ing horse or horses, and tlie rider or driver may be punished 

 by a fine not to exceed •'$100, or by suspension not exceeding 

 one year. Sh(Viild the rider or driver comply with this re- 

 quirement, and the horse should gain by a break, twice the 

 distance so gained shall be taken from him at the coming 

 out; but this provision must not be so construed as to 

 shield any trotting or pacing horse from punishment for run- 

 ning. In case of any such horse repeatedly breaking, or 

 running or pacing while another horse is trotting, or so con- 

 tinuing in a run or pace, as to violate the first requirement 

 in this rule, the Judges shall punish the horse so breaking, 

 running or pacing, by placing him last in the heat, or by 

 distancing him. A hiU-se breaking at or near the score shall 

 be subject to the same penalty as if he broke on any other 

 part of the track. 



Rule 31. Relative to Heats and Horses Eligible to Start. 



