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same owner, shall be guarded throughout. This is always to be 

 arranged, if possible, by bringing up dogs from below to meet those 

 which are to be guarded. This guarding is not, however, to deprive 

 any dog of a natural bye to which be may be entitled, either in the 

 draw or in running through the stake. The withdrawal at any time of 

 a dog from a stake shall not deprive a dog of a bye, accidental or 

 natural, to which it would have been entitled had the withdrawn dog 

 remained in the stake. Dogs, whose position has been altered in 

 consequence of guarding or of byes, must return to their original 

 position in the next round, if guarding does not prevent it. 



i6. Byes. — A natural bye shall be given to the lowest available dog 

 in each round. No dog shall run a second such bye in any stake 

 unless it is unavoidable. When a dog is entitled to a bye, either 

 natural or accidental, his owner or nominator may run any greyhound 

 he pleases to assist in the course, provided that in Sapling Stakes only 

 a sapling may be used, and in Puppy Stakes none older than a puppy. 

 But if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards that no sapling 

 or puppy respectively can be found to run an accidental bye, an older 

 dog may be used. No dog shall run any bye earlier than his position 

 on the card entitles him to do. The slip and the course in a bye shall 

 be the same as in a course in which a decision is required, and the 

 Judge shall decide whether enough has been done to constitute a 

 course, or whether it must be run again, and in the latter case the 

 Judge shall give the order. If at the commencement of any round in 

 a stake, one dog in each course of that round has a bye, those byes 

 shall not be run, but the dogs shall take their places for the next round 

 as if the byes had been run. A bye must be run before a dog can claim 

 the advantage of it. Byes or participation in winnings, through being 

 entitled to byes, shall count as courses won. 



17. Slip Steward. — The Committee of an Open Meeting and the 

 Members of a Club Meeting shall appoint, on the first evening of a 

 Meeting, a Slip Steward, whose duty shall be to see that the right 

 greyhounds, both in courses and byes, are brought to slips in their 

 proper turn ; to report to the Stewards, without delay, any greyhound 

 that does not come to the slips in time, and any act on the part of the 

 slipper, nominators, or their representatives which he may consider 

 should be brought to their knowledge. If a nominator or his repre- 

 sentative should refuse to comply with the directions of the Slip Steward, 

 or should use abusive or insulting or threatening language toward shim, 

 he shall be at once reported to the Standing Committee. A Slip 

 Steward cannot be both Slip Steward and Flag Steward at any 

 Coursing Meeting. 



18. Postponement of Meeting. — A Meeting appointed to take 



