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course, and a demand whether any person will make stakes for the ab- 

 sent party. If no person consent to do so, the bet may be declared 

 void. Bets, however, agreed to be settled in town, or any particular 

 place, cannot be declared off on the Course. 



BuLE III. Bets laid without mentioning the horse before the race 

 is over, are determined by the state of the odds at the time of mak- 

 ing it. 



Rule IV. Bets between any horses that become the property of the 

 same person, or of his avowed confederate, are void. 



Rule V. Bets on horses disqualified, and not allowed to start, for 

 want of proper identification in naming or entering, are void ; but not 

 so on horses objected to after the race on the ground of incorrect pedi- 

 gree or nomination; in the latter case, the bets go with the horse 

 that comes in first, unless otherwise disqualified. In cases where the 

 objection is made before starting, the Stewards have the power to 

 Buspend the settlement of bets until the objection has been investi- 

 gated. 



Rule VI. Bets become void on the death of the nominator of the 

 horse betted on ; or if the race for which the horse is named be the first 

 of a double event; but not so on the death of the horse, or of the 

 owner of such horse, unless named by him. 



Rule VII. Bets made upon any horse running in a trial between 

 the time of trial and the entry of it, are void. This rule applies only 

 to Newmarket. 



Rule VIII. Bets on a race for any particular day in any meeting, 

 in which the parties afterwards change the day, stand ; but if the race 

 be postponed to a different meeting, are void. The Stewards have the 

 power, in cases of urgent necessity, of putting off the races from day to 

 day, in the same week, and all bets on such races must stand. 



Rule IX. Bets not vitiated because the owner of the horse may 

 have omitted to make stakes before starting. 



Rule X. Bets made in running for a place are not determined until 

 it is won. Bets made after the heat, if the horse betted should not 

 start again, are void. 



Rule XI. Bets between horses who run a dead heat, and whose 

 owners agree to divide, or between either of such horses and the field, 

 must be put together and divided in the same proportion as the stakes. 

 If a bet be made on one of the horses that ran the dead heat against a 

 horse that is beaten in the race, the backer of the former wins half 

 his bet. If the dead heat be the first event of a double bet, the bet 



