86 Betting : the Theory and Practice explained. 



be given to the clerk of the stakes or to the clerk of the course, 

 before the race is run. 



Bets are void imder certain circumstances, the chief of which 

 is when there is no possibility of losing ; such, for instance, as 

 betting against a horse whiqji had died before the bet was 

 made. Any bet made by signal after a race has been run is not 

 only void but fraudulent. It is also an admitted rule that all 

 bets on matches and private sweepstakes depending between 

 any two horses shall be void if those horses become the 

 property of the same person, or of his avowed confederate after 

 the bets were made. Again, if a match or sweepstake be 

 made for any particular clay in a race week, and it is by mutual 

 consent changed to anv other day in tne same week, all bets 

 must stand ; but if, by mutual consent, the race is to bt- run tn a 

 different week, or if-any difference whatever be made in the terms 

 of the engagement, all bets made before the alteration are void. 



Bets on races always follow the stakes, with two exceptions. 

 The first exception is when the winning horse is disqualified from 

 a default in making stakes; the« second is when, after the race is 

 finished, an objection is successfully made regarding incorrect 

 pedigree or nomination. In both these cases the horse that 

 came in first carries the bets, though he does not get the stakes. 

 But if the owner of a horse, or his agent, by fraud or deceit, get 

 a horse started in a race for which he is disqualified by the laws 

 of racing, the bets go with the stakes, and it is immaterial 

 whether the objection be made before or after the race is run. 



There is a rule regarding forfeits reflecting on 'bets, which 

 requires notice. If a bet be made in a match or sweepstakes 

 with forfeit attached, thus £100, half forfeit, and both horses 

 start, either party to the bet may elect to declare forfeit. But 

 when he has done so, he gets nothing in event of the horse he 

 backed winning the race; and if it lose, he pays half only. 



The party who gives the odds has the option of either choosing 

 a horse or the field ; if he select a horse, the field means all the 

 other horses running in that rare. 



When horses run a dead heat (that is, when they are so level 

 at the v/inning post that the judge cannot give either the prefer- 

 ence) for a plate or sweepstakes, and the owners consent to 

 divide, all bets between such horses, or between either of them 

 and the field, must be settled by the money betted being put to- 

 gether, and then divided in the same proportion as the stakes. 

 If, however, you had backed one of the two horses that ran the 

 dead heat against another horse which was beaten, you get half 

 your bet if your horse gets half the prize ; but if the dead heat be 

 the first event of a double bet, the bet is void, unless one horse 

 receives more than half of the prize which would constitute him 

 •I winner in a double event. 



