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the horse has been sold or bought in, the sale or buying in, and any 

 claim in respect of the horse placed second, shall be annulled, and 

 all moneys paid thereunder returned. The horse disqualified shall 

 be liable to be claimed as a beaten horse, and the Stewards shall fix 

 R time for the exercise of such right of claiming, and a time and 

 place for the sale of the horse adjudged to be the winner. Should 

 the Stewards find the above provisions impracticable, they shall 

 make a report to the Registry Office, (iii) In the case of a dead- 

 heat, the time for claiming or selling is postponed until the dead-heat 

 is run off. In case of a division, each of the horses dividing is a 

 winner for the purposes of the rules relating to claiming and seUing ; 

 and if an auction race, both shall be put up to auction, and any 

 surplus shall be divided, half to go between those horses, and half to 

 the Race Fund. 6i. In all other races with selling conditions only 

 such horses as run to be sold shall be liable to be sold or claimed, 

 but with this exception and allowance to apprentices the foregoing 

 rules relating to selling races shall apply. 



Jiace Horses. — Age. — 62. The age of a horse shall be reckoned 

 as beginning on the ist of January in the year in which he is foaled. 

 63. Yearlings shall not run for any race. 64. Two-year-olds shall 

 not run more than six furlongs before the ist of July, nor shall they 

 run for handicaps before the ist of September, nor in handicaps with 

 older horses. 



Nawes of Horses. — 65. (i) A name can only be claimed for a 

 horse by application at the Registry Office in London, with the 

 description according to rule, when, if there is no other horse of the 

 same name, the name will be registered and published in the first 

 Sheet Calendar after it has been claimed, and will, from the date of 

 publication, be the horse's name under these rules, (ii) In the case 

 of a horse which has been entered elsewhere than in Great Britain 

 under the same name as one already registered, the name may be 

 claimed for him if accompanied by a numeral, and the name with 

 the numeral will then be registered and published as his name, 

 (iii) If the same name be simultaneously claimed for two or more 

 horses, the order of priority shall be determined by lot at the 

 Registry Office. 



Disqualification of Horses. — 66. If a horse run at any unrecog- 

 nised meeting, he is disqualified for all races to which these Rules 

 .apply. 67. No horse is qualified to be entered or run which is 

 wholly or partly the property of, or in any way under the care or 



