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mand him at any future .period ; but the owner of the horse claimed 

 may iusist upon the chiimant taking and paying for him. At New- 

 market any horse for a selling stake or plate is liable to be claimed by 

 the owner of any other horse in the race, for the price for which he is 

 entered to be sold and the amount of the stake ; the owner of the 

 second being first entitled, &c. 



KuLE XXVIII. Every engagement made with any horse, &c., run- 

 ning in a trial, between the time of such trial and the entering of it in 

 the Trial Book, whether it be entered within the time prescribed or not, 

 shall not be run ; but the owner of such tried horse shall be considered 

 as having declared forfeit, unless his opponents, or any of them, should 

 be desirous to hold him to his engagement. And, in case any horse so 

 tried shall have started and won any race made subsequently to the 

 trial, and before the entry of it, his owner will not be entitled to the 

 stake, but will be considered as beaten. Every bet made upon or 

 against any such horse becomes void. In these cases the disqualifica- 

 tion attaches to the horse, without regard to any change of the property 

 in him ; and if, with respect to the disqualification, any difficulty 

 should arise in ascertaining the horse or horses tried, the owner is 

 bound, on the request of the Stewards, to declare to them which of his 

 horses ran in such trial ; on refusal, the Stewards have the power to fix 

 the disqualification upon any one or more of his horses at their option. 

 This rule is applicable only to Newmarket. 



RULES OP BETTINa. 



The following rules are considered binding upon all betters. Those 

 which apply exclusively to Newmarket are specified. They are ex- 

 tracted from that carefully got up authority, " RuflF's Guide." 



RcLE I. The person who bets the odds has a right to choose his 

 horse or the field ; when he has chosen his horse, the field is what starts 

 against him. Bets are determined though the horse does not start, 

 when the word " absolutely," or " play or pay," are made use of. All 

 double events are play or pay. Bets on horses whose riders have been 

 called upon by the starter to take their places foi- the purpose of start- 

 ing, are play or pay. 



Rule II. A bet cannot be ofi" except by mutual consent ; but either 

 party may demand stakes to be made on the day of the race, and on 

 refusal may declare the bet off. And if either party be absent on the 

 day of running, a public declaration of the bet may be made on the 



