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heats and making a dead heat, better than one win- 

 ning an equal number of heats, but not making a 

 dead heat. When horses winning an equal number 

 of heats shall be distanced in the same heat, they 

 shall rank in the race in the order in which they 

 started for the heat in which they were distanced. 

 When two or more horses shall have won an equal 

 number of heats, they shall rank in the race as they 

 are placed in the last heat in which Hlhey contend ; 

 horses not winning or making a dead heat, the same. 

 In case this article should not give specific decision 

 as to second or third money, etc., the judges are to 

 decide according to the best of their ability and turf 

 usages in general, and all outside bets to be govern- 

 ed thereby. 



20. — Horses Breaking. — When any horse or 

 horses break from their gait, in trotting or pacing, 

 their riders or drivers shall immediately pull them 

 to the gait in which they were to go in the race ; 

 and any party refusing or neglecting to comply with 

 this rule shall lose the heat, and the next best horse 

 shall win the heat, and all other horses shall be 

 placed ahead in the heat ; the judges shall also have 

 discretionary power to distance the offending horse 

 or horses. Should the rider or driver comply with 

 this rule, and a horse should gain by breaking, twice 

 the distance so gained shall be taken from him or 

 them at the coming out. A horse breaking at the 

 score shall not lose the heat by so doing. 



