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race in time, or by making false starts or otherwise, 

 tlie judges may give the word without regard to the 

 offending party or parties ; when any horse or horses 

 keep so far ahead of others that the judges cannot 

 give a fair start, they shall give the offending party or 

 parties notice of the penalty attached to such offensive 

 conduct, and should they still pe^ist in their offen- 

 sive course, the judges may give the word, and such 

 offending parties shall not win the heat, although 

 they come to the score ahead of all others, and shall 

 be placed behind all others in the heat ; when horses 

 are refractory, or from other causes which may pre- 

 vent the judges from giving the word, they may, 

 after a reasonable time, give the word, without refer- 

 ence to the position of the refractory horse or horses, 

 or, after a lapse of twenty-five minutes, may call 

 them to the score and start them. 



11. — Distance and Patkol Judges. — In all 

 races of heats, there shall be a Distance judge ap- 

 pointed by the judges of the day, who shall remain 

 in the Distance stand during the heats, and immedi- 

 ately after each heat shall repair to the judges' stand, 

 and report to the judges the horse or horses that may 

 be distanced, and any act of foul, if any has occurred 

 under his observation ; the Patrol judges shall repair 

 in like manner to the judges' stand, and report any 

 act of foul, if any has occurred under their observa- 

 tion ; the report of the Distance and Patrol judges 

 shall alone be received. 



