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if) The Trip, or unsuccessful effort to kill, is where the hare is 

 thrown off her legs, or where si greyhound flecks her but 

 cannot hold her. 



27. The following allowances shall be made for accidents to a grey- 

 hound during a course ; but in every case they shall only be deducted 

 from the other dog's score : — 



(a) For losing ground at the start, either from being unsighted 



or from a bad slip, in which case the Judge is to decide 

 what amount of allowance is to be made on the principle 

 that the score of the foremost dog is not to begin until 

 the second has had an opportunity of joining in the 

 course, and the Judge may decide the course or declare 

 the course to be an undecided or no course as he may 

 think fit. 



{b) Where a hare bears very decidedly in favour of one of the 

 greyhounds after the first or subsequent turns, in which 

 case the next point shall not be scored by the dog unduly 

 favoured, or only half his points allowed according to 

 circumstances. No greyhound shall receive any allow- 

 ance for a fall or an accident with the exception of being 

 ridden over by the owner of the competing greyhound or 

 his servant, provided for by Rule 31, or when pressing 

 his hare, in which case his opponent shall not count the 

 next point made. 



28. Penalties : — 



{a) Where a greyhound, from his own defect, refuses to follow 

 the hare at which he is slipped, he shall lose the course. 



(b) Where a dog wilfully stands still in a course, or departs 



from directly pursuing the hare, no points subsequently 

 made by him shall be scored ; and, if the points made by 

 him up to that time be just equal to those made by his 

 antagonist in the whole course, he shall thereby lose the 

 course ; but where one or both dogs stop with the hare 

 in view, through inability to continue the course, it shall 

 be decided according to the number of points gained by 

 each dog during the whole course. 



(t) If a dog refuses to fence where the other fences any points 

 subsequently made by him are not to be scored ; but if 

 he does his best to fence and is foiled by sticking in a 

 meuse, the course shall end there. When the points are 

 equal the superior fencer shall win the course. 



