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Meeting, without the parties specifying the day, the Secretary must give ten days 

 notice of what days they will be run during the meeting, in case he is informed 

 of it in time. And no Sweepstake or INIatch shall be run on the Course during a 

 regular meeting without being first reported to the Secretarj', to bring it under the 

 cognizance and control of the Club. 



Rule I3lk. — The age of horses shall be computed from the first day of January 

 next, preceding their being foaled; that is, a colt or filly foaled on any day in the 

 year 1841, will be considered one year old on the first day of January, 1842. 



Rule li/h. — No person shall start or enter a horse for any purse offered by, or 

 under the control of, the Club, other than a Member of the Club, and producing, if 

 required, satisfactory evidence or proof of his horse's age; nor shall any Member 

 start a horse if his entrance money, subscription money, and all forfeits incurred on 

 the Union Course, are not paid before starting. Nor shall any person start a horse, 

 during a regular meeting of the Club, who is in arrears to any member of the Club 

 for a forfeit incurred on the Union Course. 



Rule I5lh. — All entries of horses for a purse shall be made in writing under seal, 

 addressed to the Secretary of the Club, and deposited in a box, kept for thdt purpose, 

 at the usual place of Meeting of the Club, before five o'clock in the afternoon of the 

 day of the race, for which the entry is made. Each entry shall contain the entrance 

 money, and state the name, age, colour, sex, and pedigree, of the horse entered, ana 

 describe the dress of the rider of such horse. After five o'clock of the afternoon of 

 the day preceding a Purse Race, no other or additional entry shall be allowed to be 

 made for that race, and no entry shall be received or recorded, that does not contain 

 the entrance money. Tiie entries so received, shall be drawn from the box by the 

 Secretary, and declared at five o'clock of the afternoon of the day preceding the day 

 of the race, in the presence of at least three Members of the Club, and the horses so 

 entered shall be entitled to the track in the order in which their names are drawn ; in 

 Sweepstakes and Matches, the Judges shall draw for the track at the stand. 



Rule 16th. — Any person desirous of becoming a member only for the purpose of 

 entering a horse, may do so, he being approved by the Club, and paying double 

 entrance. 



Rule nth. — The distance to be run shall be Two-mile heats, Three-mile heats, and 

 Four-mile heats, and a purse shall be put up to be run for during each regular meet- 

 ing, for each of the named distances. Not more than five per cent, shall be charged 

 as entrance upon any amount that may be put up for a purse. 



Rule 18/A. — Every horse shall carry weight, according to age, as follows : — 



A horse Two years old, A Feather. 



" Three years old, 90 Pounds. 



" Four years old, 104 " 



" Five years old, 114 " 



" Six years old, 121 " 



" Seven years old and upwards, 126 " 



\n allowance of three pounds to mares, fillies, and geldings. The Judges shall see 

 that each rider has his proper weight before he starts, and that each rider has within 

 one pound, after each heat. 



Rule lOth. — Catch weights are, where each person appoints a rider without weigh- 

 ing. Feather weights signifies the same. A Fast Slake is to name at tlic starting 

 post. Ilandicnp weights are weights according to the supposed ability of the horses. 

 An Untried stallion, or mare, is one whose get or produce has never run in iniblic 

 •V maiden iiorse or mare is one that never won. 



Rule 20lh. — No horse shall carry more than five pounds over his stipulated weight 

 without the Judges being informed of it, which shall be publicly declared by them, 

 whereupon all bets shall be void, except those made between the parties who enter the 

 horses. Every rider shall declare to the Judges who weighs him. when and how his 

 extra weights, if any, are carried. The menil)er of the Club who enters the horse 

 shall be responsible for putting up, and bringing out the proper weioht. He shall be 

 bound to weigh the rider of his horse in the presence of the Judges before starting, 

 and if he refuses or neglects to do so, he shall be prevented from starting his horse. 



