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Rule X. All sweepstakes advertised to be run over the course on 

 any day of the regular meetings of this Club, shall be under the cogni- 

 zance of this Club, and no change of entries once made, shall be al- 

 lowed, after closing, unless by the consent of all the parties. 



Rule XI. The distance stand shall be sixty yards from the Judges' 

 stand for mile-heats, and sixty additional yards for every mile in a heat, 

 unless it be the best three in five, when ninety yards to a mile shall be 

 the distance. 



Rule XII. The time between heats shall be twenty minutes for 

 mile-heats; thirty for two-mile heats; forty for three-mile heats; and 

 forty-five for four-mile heats. Some signal shall be sounded from the 

 Judges' stand five minutes before the period of starting, after the lapse 

 of which time the Judges shall give the word, as, " are you ready ; " 

 but should any horse be restive in saddling, the Judges may delay the 

 word a short interval, at their own discretion. 



Rule XIII. No person shall start a horse for any purse under the 

 control of the Club, other than a member, he being at least one-third 

 bona fide interested, and producing satisfactory proof of his horse's age ; 

 nor shall any member start a horse, if his entrance and subscription be 

 not paid before starting. 



Rule XIV. Any person desirous of becoming a member only for 

 the pm-pose of starting a horse, may do so, he being approved by the 

 Club, and paying double entrance. 



Rule XV. All entries of horses to run shall be made in open Club, 

 and in his own hand, on the evening preceding each day's race, by five 

 o'clock, or during the sitting of the Club ; and the owner, or person 

 then present, shall give his name, color, age, and sex, and name of sire 

 and dam of the horse, with the dress of the rider, and no entry made 

 after that time shall be allowed. Provided, if there be no meeting of 

 the Club, then with the Secretary, or Treasurer, by six o'clock. 



Rule XVI. No two riders from the same stable shall be allowed to 

 ride in the same race ; nor shall two horses trained in the same stable 

 be allowed to start in the same race. 



Rule XVII. Riders shall not be permitted to ride unless well 

 dressed in jockey style — to wit, jockey cap, silk jacket, pantaloons, and 

 half boots. 



Rule XVIII. Riders, after a heat is ended, must repair to the 

 Judges' stand ; and not dismount till ordered by the Judges, and then 

 with their saddles repair to the scales to be weighed. 



Rule XIX. The horse who has won a heat will be entitled to the 

 track, and the foremost entitled to any part of the track, he leaving 



