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starting for the first race. This rule extends to forfeits due elsewhere 

 than at Newmarket, provided a notice of them be delivered by teu 

 o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running. 



Rule XXIII. No person in arrear for stakes or forfeits, after appli- 

 cation for payment, and no person notoriously 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 fail- 

 ure of such proof, may cause the nomination to be erased ; and the 

 nominator will 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 permitted 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. 



Rule XXIV. 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 purchaser had been the original subscriber. In all cases of pri- 

 vate 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. 



Rule XXV. 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 sub- 

 stituting his own name for that of the person to whom it was previous- 

 ly due. He may take the same course in respect of forfeits not on 

 the list. 



Rule XXVI. When a person takes a nomination for a stake, in 

 which the forfeit is to be declared by a particular time, and does not 

 declare forfeit by the time fixed, he takes the engagement on him- 

 self, and his name will be substituted for that of the original sub- 

 scriber. 



Rule XXVII. In a selling race, none but those who have started 

 horses in it are entitled to claim ; the horse claimed must be paid for 

 on the day of the race, or the party claiming it is not entitled to de- 



