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time as aforesaid, or to appoint some suitable person or per- 

 sons to assist them in that respect; and no nnoffieial timing 

 shall be recognized or admitted to the record. [See, also, 

 Rule 40.] 



Rule 40. Two Leading Horses to be Separately Timed. 

 The two leading horses shall be separately timed, and if the 

 heat is aAvarded to either, his time only shall be announced 

 and be a record. In case of a dead heat, the time shall con- 

 stitute a record for the horses making the dead heat; and if 

 for any other cause the heat is not awarded to either of the 

 leading horses, it shall be awarded to the next best horse, 

 and no time shall be given out by the Judges or recorded 

 against either horse ; and the Judges may waive the appli- 

 cation of the rule in regard to distance in that heat, except 

 for foul riding or driving. 



Rule 41. Fraudulent Suppression of Time. In any pub- 

 lic race, if there shall be any intentional suppression or mis- 

 representation in either the record or the announcement of 

 the time of any heat in the race, procured through any col- 

 lusive arrangement between the Judges or Timers and the 

 owner or the winning horse or his driver or other author- 

 ized agent, it shall be fraudulent. And any horse winning 

 a heat or making a dead heat wherein there was such a 

 fraudulent suppression of time, together with the parties im- 

 plicated in the fraud, shall be expelled. 



Rule 42. A Public Race. Any contest for purse, pre- 

 mium, stake or wager, on any course and in the presence of 

 a Judge or Judges, shall constitute a public race. 



Rule 43. Wlien Time Becomes a Bar. Time made in 

 single or double harness at fairs and on any track, whether 

 short or not, shall constitute a bar; but time made under the 

 saddle shall not be a bar in harness or wagon races. 



Rule 44. Time of " Trotting Horse with a Running Mate,'''' 

 no Bar. A race wherein a trotting horse goes with a 

 running mate, shall not create a record for time as a trotting 

 perform mce. 



Rule 45. Complai?its by Riders or Drivers, All com- 



