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6. Conditions using merely the term " Winning Horses " in re- 

 ference to those liable to extra weight, to be considered as applying 

 only to winners of public steeple chases, advertised or announced as 

 such ; and no winner of hurdle or flat races, or match of any kind to 

 be considered liable to carry the extra weight as a winner, unless 

 words to that effect shall be fully specified in the articles. 



7. The term " Maiden Horse " to be considered applicable to any 

 horse which never won a steeple chase, and a " horse that never 

 started," to one which never started for a steeple chase. 



8. The term " Gentlemen Riders," if used solely, a custom that 

 should be carefully avoided, to apply or allude only to persons gene- 

 rally received in society as gentlemen; Members of the London 

 leading Clubs, Fox-hunting or Racing Clubs, Officers in the Army 

 or Navy, Barristers, Solicitors, Medical Men, or others so considered 

 by position and profession, and who do not and never have been in 

 the habit of receiving remuneration for riding, either directly or in 

 form of travelling expenses, or any other indirect manner. 



9. Any rider falling from or suffering his horse to get away from 

 him, to be at liberty to re-mount in any part of the same field or 

 inclosure in which the accident occurred ; but should his horse not 

 be caught until he had entered another field, then to be ridden or 

 brought back to the one in which he parted with his rider. Any 

 jockey so losing his horse may be assisted in catching and re- 

 mounting by the spectators or any other person engaged in the 

 chase, without risk of disqualification ; and in the event of a rider 

 being disabled, his horse may be ridden home and take his place the 

 same, by any person of sufficient weight, providing he mount or go 

 back to the same field the first rider fell in. 



10. The state of the weather and the ground, in the event of any 

 doubt as to the fitness or safety of running, to be left entirely to the 

 discretion of the Stewards, who may order the chase or chases to be 

 then and there decided as originally fixed, or postponed according to 

 the best of their judgment, — all engagements standing, whether 

 decided or put off, just as when first subscribed to; save only with 

 regard to bets, which shall not stand (except by mutual agreement) 

 unless the chase on which they were made be decided on some day in 

 the same week for which it was first fixed ; or on some other day 

 named in the original conditions of the chase. 



