302 EMPLOYMENT OF THE DOG IN HUNTING, ETC. 



8. Draw. — Immediately before tlie grej'hounds are drawn at 

 any meeting, and before nine o'clock on every subsequent evening 

 during the continuance of such meeting, the time and place of 

 putting the first brace of dogs into the slips on the following morn- 

 ing shall be declared. A card or counter bearing a corresponding 

 number shall be assigned to each entry. These numbered cards 

 or counters shall then be placed together and drawn indiscrimin- 

 ately. This classification once made, shall not be disturbed 

 throughout the meeting, except for the purpose of guarding, or 

 on account of byes. Dogs whose position on the card has been 

 altered in consequence of guarding or of byes must return to their 

 original position in the next round, if guarding does not prevent it. 



9. Guarding. — When more than one nomination in a stake is 

 taken in one name, the greyhounds, if bond fide the property of the 

 same owner, shall be guarded throughout : this is always to be 

 arranged, as far as possible, by bringing up dogs from below to 

 meet those which are to be guarded. This guarding is not, how- 

 ever, to deprive any dog of a natural hye to which he may be 

 entitled, either in the draw, or in running through the stake. 



10. Byes. — A natural bye shall be given to the lowest available 

 dog in each round. No dog shall run a second such bye in any 

 stake, unless it is unavoidable. When a dog is entitled to a bye, 

 either natural or accidental, his owner or nominator may run any 

 greyhound he pleases to assist in the course, provided always that 

 in sapling stakes only a sapling may be used, and in puppy stakes 

 none older than a puppy. But if it is proved to the satisfaction of 

 the Stewards that no puppy can be found in time to run an acci- 



