HANDBOOK OF THE TURF. 2G5 



is a disagreement in watches, to give the average time taken 

 by all of them. 



Time Board. The score board upon which the time of 

 the heat and rank of the horses, at the close of each heat, is 

 hung out in front of the judges' stand. 



Time Between Heats. The time allowed drivers and 

 horses by the trotting rules, between heats, is : Mile heats, 

 twenty minutes ; mile heats in a three in five race, twenty-five 

 minutes; two mile heats, thirty minutes; three mile heats, 

 thirty-five minutes ; and if there should be a four mile race, 

 forty minutes. The racing rules are: In heats of three- 

 fourths of a mile, and of one mile, twenty minutes ; in heats 

 of two miles, twenty-five minutes ; in heats of three miles, 

 thirty-five minutes, and in heats of four miles, forty minutes. 



Time ^Not a Bar. By the trotting rules time made 

 under the saddle, or on snow or ice, as well as time made when 

 two or more horses are harnessed together, shall constitute a 

 bar for races of the same character, but shall not be a bar for 

 races of a different character ; but time to wagon is a record or 

 a bar, as the case may be, in races of every character. 



Time Performance. A measure of speed against time. 

 The trotting rules and rules of the Trotting Register Associa- 

 tion require that a performance against time must be made at 

 a regular meeting of a track or society in National or Ameri- 

 can membership ; strictly in accordance with the trotting rules ; 

 not to interfere with, or take place pending the close of another 

 race; in the presence of three judges and three timers; the 

 meeting must be duly advertised ; the entries properly made, 

 and it must not take place earlier than ten o'clock of the day 

 set for the performance. Match races are regarded as per- 

 formances against time. 



Time Record. In all public races, and in all perform- 

 ances against time, the time made in each heat must be accu- 

 rately taken and placed in a record which must be signed by 

 the judges at the close of the heat, as well as by the timers 

 and the clerk of the course. If it should be made to appear 

 to the boards of review or appeals, upon investigation, that 

 any record had been fraudulently obtained, such time shall 

 be regarded a bar, not a record. 



Time, Suppression of. The act of withholding from 

 the public the actual time made by a horse in a heat. The 

 suppression of time at a public race is regarded and treated 

 as a fraud by all the associations ; and such acts are punishable 

 by heavy fines and expulsions from the courses within the 

 membership of the trotting and racing congresses. 



