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(i) Persons who have never ridden for hire, and who are not other- 

 wise disqualified under these Rules need no quaUfication to ride in 

 steeple chases or hurdle races unless the conditions of any such 

 steeple chase or hurdle race require a particular qualification. (2) 

 Qualified riders under these Rules are persons who have never 

 ridden for hire, and who are qualified either as :—{a) as Gentlemen, 

 {i) as Farmers, {c) by Election, (d) Yeomen when riding at their 

 own regimental meetings, (a) Riders qualified as gentlemen must 

 be members of the National Hunt Committee, the Irish National 

 Hunt Steeple Chase Committee, or of one of the following Clubs :— 

 The Jockey Club, Turf Club of Ireland, Croxton Park, Bibury, 

 Southdown and Ludlow Race Clubs, the New Rooms at New- 

 market, the Jockey Clubs of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, the Army 

 and Navy, Junior Army and Navy, Arthur's, Turf, Boodle's, 

 Brook's, Carlton, Junior Carlton, Guards', Pratt's, Travellers', 

 United Service, Junior United Service, East India United Service, 

 the Union, White's, the Conservative, the Oxford and Cambridge, 

 the Naval and Military, the Oriental, the Badminton, the Devon- 

 shire, the New University, the Windham, the St. James's or the 

 United University Club, the Kildare Street, Sackville Street, 

 Hibernian United Service or Stephen's Green Clubs, in Dublin, the 

 Western Meeting (Ayr), or the New Club, Edinburgh ; or that they 

 be officers on full pay in the Army or Navy, or persons holding 

 commissions under the Crown, or bearing titles in their own right 

 or by courtesy, (d) Riders qualified as farmers must be now farming 

 at least 100 acres of land, and their sons if following the same 

 occupation, and for the purposes of this rule a " farmer " shall be 

 understood to mean one who resides permanently on his farm, 

 working it himself, and deriving therefrom his principal and 

 ostensible means of subsistence. (c) Persons not qualified as 

 "gentleman riders" or "farmers," who are desirous of becoming 

 "qualified riders," must send their names in for election, with the 

 names of their proposer and seconder, who must be members of the 

 National Hunt Committee, to the Registry Office for publication 

 in at least one "Calendar" before the day of election. The names 

 of persons elected must be submitted annually to the Committee 

 at the general meeting on the second Monday in December for 

 re-election. The fee to be paid on election or re-election is ^i. 

 93. Should any qualified rider subsequently ride for hire or appear 

 in the Forfeit List, or be reported by the Committee of the Sub- 

 scription Rooms at Newmarket or at Tattersall's as being a defaulter 



