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3. — None but Members shall be allowed to trot a horse for any limited Purse given 

 by this Association. 



4. — Horses trained in the same stable or owned in part by the same person, shall 

 not start for a Purse ; and horses so entered shall forfeit their entrance. A horse 

 starting alone shall receive but one-half the Purse. Horses deemed by the Judges 

 not fair trotting horses, shall be ruled off previous to, or distanced at the termination 

 of a heat. 



5. — All entries shall be made under a seal, inclosing the entrance money, (ten per 

 cent, on the Purse,) and addressed to the Secretary, at such time and place as may 

 have been previously designated by advertisement. 



6. — Every Trotting horse starting for Match, Purse, or Stake, shall carry I45lbs. — 

 if in harness, the weight of the vehicle not to be considered. Pacing horses to be 

 allowed 5lbs. ; Wagons to weigh 250lbs. 



7. — A distance for mile heats, best three in five, shall be one hundred yards ; for 

 one-mile heats, eighty yards, and for every additional mile an additional eighty 

 yards. 



8. — ^The time between heats shall be — for one mile, twenty minutes, and for every 

 additional mile, an additional five minutes. 



9. — ^There shall be chosen by the Proprietors of the Course, or Stewards, Three 

 Judges, to preside over a race for Purses, and by them two additional Judges shall be 

 appointed for the distance stand ; they may also, during, or previous to a race, appoint 

 Inspectors at any part of the Course, whose report shall be received of any foul riding 

 or driving. 



10. — Should a difference of opinion exist between the Judges in the starting stand, 

 on any question, a majority shall govern. 



11. — The Judges shall order the horses saddled or harnessed, five minutes previous 

 to the time appointed for starting, or at the expiration of the time allowed between 

 heats. Any rider or driver causing undue detention, after being called up, by making 

 false starts or otherwise, the Judges may give the word to start, without reference to 

 the situation of the horse so offending, unless convinced such delay is unavoidable on 

 the part of the rider or driver ; in which case not more than thirty minutes shall be 

 consumed in attempts to start. 



12. — The Pole shall be drawn for by the Judges. The horse winning a heat, shall, 

 for the succeeding heat, be entitled to a choice of the track. On coming out on the 

 last stretch, each horse shall retain the track first selected ; any horse deviating shall 

 be distanced. 



13. — In all cases of dispute, and not provided for by theseRules, the Judges for the 

 day will decide finally. In case of a race or match being proved to their satisfaction 

 to have been made or conducted improperly and dishonestly, on the part of the prin- 

 cipals, they shall have the power to declare all bets void. They shall also have 

 the power to mitigate the penalty of a rider or driver's disobeying these rules, by 

 giving the next best horse a heat, instead of distancing the person so offending, should 

 circumstances justify them in siich mitigation. 



14. — Riders and drivers shall not be permitted to start unless dressed in Jockey 

 style. 



15. — ^Riders and Drivers shall weigh in the presence of one or more Judges, pre- 

 vious to starting ; and after a heat, are to come up to the starting stand, and not to 

 dismount until so ordered by the Judges. Any rider or driver disobeying, shall, on 

 weighing, be precluded from the benefit of the weight of his saddle and whip — and 

 if not full weight, shall be distanced. 



16. — A rider or driver committing any act which the Judges may deem foul riding 

 or driving, shall be distanced. 



17. — Should any horse break from his trot or pace, and gain by such break, twice 

 the distance so gained shall be taken from him on coming out. A horse breaking or. 

 the score shall not lose the heat by so doing. 



18. — A horse must win two heats to be entitled to the Purse — unless he distance 



all other horses in one heat. — A distanced horse in a dead heat shall not start again. 



19. — A horse not winning one heat in three, shall nnt start for a fourth beat, unless 



such horse shall have made a dead heat. When a dead heat is made between two 



horses, and if either had won the heat, the race would have been decided, they two 



