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3. Description of Entry. Every subscriber to a stake must name his dog at or before the draw, giving the 

 names of the sire and dam of the dog entered, and also, in puppy stakes, the name of the dam's owner. The 

 secretary shall publish on the card the names of those who are subscribers, but do not comply with these 

 conditions. These nominations shall not be drawn, but must be paid for. 



4. Disqualification, For Puppy Stakes, the names, pedigrees, ages, colours, and distinguishing marks of the 

 puppies shall be detailed in writing to the secretary of a meeting at the time of entry. Any puppy whose age, 

 markings, and pedigree shall be proved not to correspond with the entry given shall be disqualified, and the 

 whole of its stakes or winnings forfeited. 



5. Definition of Puppy. No dog is to be considered a puppy that was whelped before the ist of January 

 of the year preceding that of its competing. 



6. Payment of Slakes. All money due for nominations taken must be paid on or before the draw, whether 

 the stake fill or not, and although from insufficient description or any other cause, the dogs named may be 

 disqualified. No entry shall be valid unless the amount due for it has been paid in full. For all produce and 

 other stakes where a forfeit is payable no declaration is necessary ; the nonpayment of the remainder of the 

 entry money at the time fixed for that purpose is to be considered a declaration of forfeit. The secretary is 

 responsible for the entry money of all dogs whose names appear upon the card. 



7. Alteration of Name. If any subscriber should enter a dog by a different name from that in which 

 it shall have last been known in public he shall give notice of the alteration to the secretary at the time of 

 entry, and the secretary shall place on the card both the late and present name of the dog. If notice of the 

 alteration be not given the dog shall be disqualified. 



8. Prefix of " NS." Any subscriber taking an entry in a stake, and not prefixing the word " names " to a 

 dog which is not his own property, shall forfeit that dog's chance of the stake. He shall likewise, if 

 requested, deliver in writing to the secretary of the meeting the name of the bond fide owner of the dog named 

 by him, and this communication is to be produced should any dispute arise in the matter. 



9. Death of Subscribers. The death of a subscriber shall only affect his nomination if it occur before the 

 draw, in which case, subject to the exceptions stated below, it shall be void, whether the entries have been made 

 or not, and any money received for forfeits or stakes shall be returned. If he has parted with all interest in 

 the nominations, and dogs not his property are entered, paid for, and drawn in ignorance of his being no 

 longer alive, such entries shall not subsequently be disturbed. When dogs who have been entered in produce 

 stakes change owners with their engagements and with their forfeits paid, the new owner, if otherwise entitled 

 to run them in these stakes, shall not be prevented from doing so by reason of the death of the former owner. 



10. Power to Refuse Entries. The committee or stewards of any meeting may reserve to themselves the 

 right of refusing any entries they may think fit to exclude ; and no person who has been proved to the satis- 

 faction of the Committee of the Kennel Club to have misconducted himself in any way in connection with dogs, 

 dog shows, or dog trials, will be allowed to compete in any trials that may be held under the Kennel 

 Club Rules. 



11. The Draw. Immediately before the dogs are drawn at any meeting, and before nine o'clock on every 

 subsequent evening during the continuance of such meeting, the time and place of putting down the first brace 

 of dogs on the following morning shall be declared. A card or counter bearing a corresponding number shall 

 be assigned to each entry. These numbered cards or counters shall then be placed together and drawn indis- 

 criminately. This classification, once made, shall not be disturbed throughout the meeting, except for the 

 purpose of guarding, or on account of byes. Dogs whose position on the card has been altered in consequence 

 of guarding or of byes must return to their original position in the next round if guarding does not prevent it. 



12. The stakes shall be run in the order they are given in the programme, unless the whole of the com- 

 petitors or their representatives in the various stakes may agree otherwise in which case the order may be 

 changed, with the consent of the Stewards or Committee. 



13. Guarding. When more than one nomination in a stake is taken in one name, the dogs, \ibonafide 

 the property of the same owner, shall be guarded throughout : this is always to be arranged, as far as possible, 

 by bringing up dogs from below to meet those which are to be guarded. This guarding is not, however, to 

 deprive any dcg of a natural bye to which he may be entitled, either in the draw or in running through 

 the stake. 



14. Byes. A natural bye shall be given to the lowest available dog in each round. No dog shall run a 

 second such bye in any stake, unless it is unavoidable. When a dog is entitled to a bye, either natural or 

 accidental, his owner or nominator may run any dog he pleases with him. 



