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have power to call upon a nominator to produce testimony 

 tliat the horse named is not the property, either wholly or 

 in part, of any person whose name appears in the list of 

 defaulters; and if he fail to do so, they may cause the 

 nomination to be erased. 



" Examination of Mouth. — When the age or qualifi- 

 cation of a horse is objected to, either before or after run- 

 ning, the stewards have power to order the examination 

 of the horse's mouth, by competent persons, and to call for 

 such evidence as they may require, and their decision is 

 final. The person requiring the horse's mouth to be ex- 

 amined, at Newmarket, must pay the expenses of such ex- 

 amination, unless it should prove that the horse is of the 

 wrong age, in which case the Jockey Club will pay it. 



" Fraudulent Owners, &c. — If a horse shall run, or be 

 brought to run, for any race, in England or elsewhere, and 

 shall be proved not to be of the age represented, the Jockey 

 Club have power to disqualify for ever the owner, or part 

 owner, trainer, groom, or person having the care of such 

 horse at the time, from running or training any horse 

 where the rules of the Jockey Club apply, and from being 

 employed by any member of the Club. And any horse 

 thus fraudulently entered or run, is for ever disqualified 

 for running in any race whatever. 



''Non-payment of Stakes. — Ko person can start a 

 horse for any race, either in his own name or that of any 

 other person, unless both the owner and namer shall have 

 paid all former stakes and forfeits before the time fixed for 

 starting for the first race. This rule extends to forfeits due 

 elsewhere than at Kewmarket, provided a notice of them 

 be delivered by ten o'clock in the evening preceding the 

 day of running. 



*' Defaulters. — No person in arrear for stakes or for- 

 feits, after application for payment, and no person note- 



