810 RACING. 



riouslj a defaulter in respect of bets, can enter and run in 

 his own name, or in that of any other person, any horse of 

 which he is wholly or in part owner. And to prevent any 

 evasion of this rule, the stewards have power to call upon 

 the nominator to procure satisfactory testimony that such 

 is not the case, and on failure of such proof may cause the 

 nomination to be erased ; and the nominator v/ill be held 

 liable for the stakes or forfeits thereon. And no horse 

 trained by any groom or person thus in default, or in any 

 way under the care of a person in default, will be per- 

 mitted to start. Should any horse, coming under the 

 above regulations, be mistakingly permitted to start, he 

 will not be considered a winner, though he should come 

 in first; and the subscriber will have to pay the whole 

 stake, as for a beaten horse. (This rule does not apply at 

 Newmarket, but at most of the principal races elsewhere.) 



" Liabilities of Sellers and Purchasers. — When a 

 horse is sold with his engagements, the seller has not the 

 power of striking the horse out ; but, as the original sub- 

 scriber remains liable for the forfeits, he may, if compelled 

 to pay them, place them on the forfeit-list, as due from 

 the purchaser to himself; and both the purchaser and the 

 horse remain under the same disabilities as if the pur- 

 chaser had been ^' the original subscriber. In all cases of 

 private sale the written acknowledgment of both parties 

 that the horse was sold with the engagement is necessary 

 to entitle either buyer or seller to the benefit of this rule. 



" Forfeits may be Paid. — When a person has a horse 

 engaged in the name of another party, who may be on the 

 list of defaulters, he may, if he pay this forfeit, start his 

 horse, leaving the forfeit on the list, and substituting his 

 own name for that of the person to whom it was pre 

 viously due. He may take the same course in respect to 

 forfeits not on the list. 



