SOUTH CAROLINA JOCKEY CLUB RULES. 523 



Rule XXIV. The President, Vice President, and Stewards, or a 

 majority of them, are authorized to admit members of this Club during 

 its recess. 



Rule XXV. All extra meetings of the Club shall be called by the 

 President, or in his absence, by the Vice President, or in the absence of 

 both, by a majority of the Stewards. 



Rule XXVI. No gentleman hereafter, not a member of the Club, 

 shall be admitted into the Jockey Club Stand, unless he presents to the 

 door-keeper a Ticket, bearing his name, and endorsed by a member of 

 the Club. 



Rule XXVII. It shall be the business of the Secretary to keep a 

 full, fair, and impartial account of all the proceedings of this Club, with 

 every thing of interest relating to the sports of the week. 



Rule XXVIII. All members of the Club, and their families in the 

 direct ascending and descending lines — young men of age excepted — are 

 entitled to entrance to all sports over the Washington Course. 



Rule XXIX. No fundamental Rule of this Club shall be altered or 

 abolished, unless by the consent of a majority of the whole Club. 



EULES FOR RACmG. 



Horses take their ages from May day ; that is, a horse foaled any 

 time in the year 1828, will be deemed a year old on the first of May, 

 1829. 



Four inches are a hand. Fourteen pounds are a stone. 



Catch weights are, each party to appoint any person to ride without 

 weighing. 



A post match is to insert the age of the horses in the article, and to 

 run any horse of that age, without declaring what horse, till he comes to 

 the poll to start. 



Horses are not entitled to start without producing a proper certifi- 

 cate of their age, if required, at the time appointed in the articles, except 

 where aged horses are included, and in that case a junior horse may 

 enter without a certificate as to age, provided he carry the same weight 

 as the aged. 



No person shall start more than one horse of which he is the owner, 

 either wholly or in part, and either in his own name, or in that of any 

 other person, for any race for which heats are run. 



The horse that has his head to the ending post first, wins the 

 heat. 



