THE RULES OF COURSING i6i 



34. Withdraiual of a Dog. — If a dog- be withdrawn 

 from any stake on the field, its owner, or someone having 

 his authority, must at once give notice to the Secretary 

 or Flag or Slip Steward. If the dog belongs to either of 

 these officials, the notice must be given to the other. 

 When, after a no course or an undecided, one of the 

 greyhounds has been officially drawn, and the dogs are 

 again, by mistake, put into the slips and run a course, the 

 arrangements come to shall stand, whatever the Judge's 

 decision may be, and all bets on the course shall be void. 



35. Impugning Judge. — If any subscriber, owner, or 

 any other person, proved to be interested, openly im- 

 pugns the decision of the Judge on the ground, except 

 by a complaint to the Stewards according to Rule 33, 

 he shall forfeit not more than 5/., nor less than 2/., at the 

 discretion of the Stewards. 



36. Stakes not Run Out. — When two greyhounds 

 remain in for the deciding course, the stakes shall be 

 considered divided if they belong to the same owner, or 

 to confederates, and also if the owner of one of the two 

 dogs induces the owner of the other to draw him for 

 any payment or consideration ; but if one of the two be 

 drawn without payment or consideration, from lameness 

 or from any cause clearly affecting his chance of winning, 

 the other may be declared the winner, the facts of the 

 case being clearly proved to the satisfaction of the 

 Stewards. The same rule shall apply when more than 

 two dogs remain in at the end of a stake which is not run 

 out ; and in case of a division between three or more 

 dogs, of which two or more belong to the same owner, 

 these latter shall be held to take equal shares of the total 

 amount received by their owner in a division. W^hen 

 there is a compulsory division, all greyhounds remaining 



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