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In case these provisions shall not give a specific decision 

 as to second and third money, etc., the Judges of the race 

 are to make the awards according to their best judgment, 

 but in conformity with the principles of this rule. 



Rule 37. Distances. In races of mile heats 80 j^ards 

 shall be a distance. In races of two mile heats 150 yards 

 shall be a distance. In races of three mile heats 2:20 yards 

 shall be a distance. In races of mile lieats best 3 in 5, 100 

 yards sliall be a distance. But if any Association or Propri- 

 etor shall choose, they can provide, in heats of not over one 

 mile, wherein eight or more horses contend, to increase^ the 

 distance one half, in which case such change shall be stated 

 in the published conditions of the race, before entry. 



All horses whose heads have not reached the distance 

 stand as soon as the leading horse arrives at the winning 

 post, shall be declared distanced, except in cases otherwise 

 provided for, or the punishment of the leading horse by set- 

 ting him back for running, when it shall be left to the dis- 

 cretion of the Judges. 



A distanced horse is out of the race, and if in any heat one 

 horse shall distance all competitors, the race will then be 

 completed, and the winner shall be entitled to the entire 

 purse and stakes, unless otherwise stipuhited in the pub- 

 lished conditions of the'race. 



Rule 38. Rank heticeen Distanced IIo)\ses. Horses dis_ 

 tiinced in the first heat of a race shall be equal ; but horses 

 that are distanced in any subsequent heat shall rank as to 

 each other in the order of the positions to which they were 

 entitled at the start of the heat in which they are dis- 

 tanced. 



Rule 39. Time and its JRecord. In every public race the 

 time of each heat shall be accurately taken and placed in the 

 recod •j'^and, upon the decision of each heat, the time thereof 

 shall be publicly announced by the Judges, except as provid- 

 ed in these rules concerning those heats which are "taken 

 away from leading horses. " 



It shall be the duty of the Judges of the race to take the 



