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transfer is made for the purpose of avoiding payment of 

 forfeit orders or any disqualification, the person making and 

 receiving such transfers may be fined or ruled off. 



Distal Phalanx. The coiiin bone. 



Distance. The space measured back from the winning 

 post or judges' stand which a horse, in heat-races, must have 

 reached when the winning horse has covered the whole course, 

 in order to be entitled to enter subsequent heats. By the 

 rules of the trotting turf distances are : Kaces of mile heats, 

 eighty yards ; races of two mile heats, one hundred and fifty 

 yards; races of three mile heats, two hundred and twenty 

 yards ; mile heats, best three in five, one hundred yards ; heats 

 of not over one mile, in which eight or more horses start, 

 distance is to be increased one half, unless otherwise stated in 

 the conditions of the race. In a fairly trotted heat, when 

 there is no question as to the placing of horses, those whose 

 heads have not reached the distance stand or post as soon as 

 the leading horse arrives at the wire, are declared to be dis- 

 tanced. All horses distanced in the first heat are equal. If a 

 heat has been won by a protested horse the judges are to waive 

 the application of a distance as to all other horses except for 

 fouls; and judges may waive distance, (except for fouls), to 

 any horse for w^hich they have substituted a rider or driver ; 

 also, in case of a dead heat, judges may waive the application 

 of the distance rule. A horse distancing the field in one heat, 

 closes the race and is entitled to the entire purse, stake or 

 premium, unless otherwise stated. The American Turf Con- 

 gress recognizes the following distances : In heats of three- 

 quarters of a mile, twenty-five yards ; one mile, thirty yards ; 

 two miles, seventy yards ; three miles, sixty yards ; four miles, 

 seventy yards. In the deciding heat there is no distance. 



Distanced. To be distanced in a heat or race, is to 

 have no place. A horse which fails to reach the distance-post 

 or stand before the heat has been won, or whose driver or 

 rider is adjudged to have made certain specified errors, is 

 regarded as distanced. 



Distance Flag. The flag in the hands of the distance 

 judge, the falling of which, as the winning horse reaches the 

 wire, is the signal that horses which have not reached the 

 distance post are shut out. 



Distanced Horse. A distanced horse is out of the 

 race, having no j^lace. 



Distance Judg^e. A person appointed by the judges 

 to remain in the distance stand, or at the distance post during 

 a heat or race, and, at the close, report to them the horse or 



