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incurred, shall be paid by such person or persons, and in such pro- 

 portions, as the Stewards shall direct. 175. Pending the determin- 

 ation of an objection, any prize which the horse objected to may 

 have won or may win in the race, shall be withheld until the 

 objection is determined, and any forfeit payable by the owner of 

 any other horse shall be paid to and held by the Stakeholder for the 

 person who may be entitled to it. 



Corrupt Practices and Disqualificatio7is of Persons. — 176. (i) If 

 any person corruptly give or offer, or promise, directly or indirectly, 

 any bribe in any form to any person having official duties in relation 

 to a race or racehorse, or to any trainer, jockey, or agent, or to any 

 other person having charge of or access to any racehorse ; or (ii) If 

 any person having official duties in relation to a race, or if any 

 trainer, jockey, agent, or other person having charge of or access to 

 any racehorse corruptly accept or offer to accept any bribe, in any 

 form ; or (iii) Wilfully enter or cause to be entered or to start for 

 any race a horse which he knows or believes to be disqualified ; 

 or (iv) If any person be proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards 

 of the Jockey Club to have surreptitiously obtained information 

 respecting a trial from any person or persons engaged in it or in the 

 service of the owner or trainer of the horses tried, or respecting any 

 horse in training from any person in such service ; or (v) If any 

 person be guilty of or shall conspire with any other person for the 

 commission of, or shall connive at any other person being guilty of 

 any other corrupt or fraudulent practice in relation to racing in this 

 or any other country : Every person so offending shall be warned off 

 Newmarket Heath and other places where these Rules are in force. 

 177. If any person be reported by the Committee of the Subscription 

 Rooms at Newmarket or at Tattersall's as being a defaulter in bets, 

 he shall be warned off as in the last rule mentioned so long as his 

 default continues. 178. When a person is warned off Newmarket 

 Heath, and so long as his exclusion continues, he shall not be 

 qualified, whether acting as an agent or otherwise, to subscribe for 

 or to enter or run any horse for any race either in his own name or 

 in that of any other person, and any horse of which he is the 

 nominator, or is (or was at the time of entry) wholly or partly the 

 owner, or which (after the fact of his being warned off has been 

 twice published in the " Racing Calendar ") shall be proved to the 

 satisfaction of the Stewards to be, or to have been, directly or 



