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-value of the stakes or plate by the owners of horses running in the race, or their 

 authorised agents. 



(i) Owners of horses placed shall have priority of claim in the order of their 

 places, and if the owners of two or more horses having equal rights claim, they 

 are to draw lots. The owner of the winner has the last claim. 



(ii) No person can claim more than one horse. 



(iii) Every claim must be made in writing to the Clerk of the Scales within a 

 quarter of an hour after the winner has passed the scale, but subject to the Rules 

 in cases of objection. 



58. The price of every horse claimed must be paid to the Stakeholder, and an 

 order given by him for the delivery of the horse. 



In the case of a horse being claimed, if the price be not paid before seven 

 o'clock in the evening of the day of the race, the claimant forfeits his right. But 

 the owner may insist on the claimant taking and paying for the horse, and if he 

 refuse or neglect to do so, he shall be treated as a defaulter in respect of the 

 price. 



59. If a horse walk over (or there be no second horse placed) for a selling race, 

 the winner is still liable to be sold, but any surplus above the selling price will go 

 to the fund. 



60. The foregoing Rules relating to claiming and selling races, in cases where 

 the horse placed first is objected to, are subject, when practicable, to the following 

 provisions : — 



(i) If an objection be made before the horse has been sold, the time for selling 

 and claiming shall be fixed by the Stev^ards. 



(ii) Where the objection is made and sustained after the horse has been sold 

 or bought in, the sale or buying in, and any claim in respect of the horse placed 

 second, shall be annulled, and all moneys paid thereunder returned. The horse 

 disqualified shall be liable to be claimed as a beaten horse, and the Stewards shall 

 fix a time for the exercise of such'right of claiming, and a time and place for the 

 sale of the horse adjudged to be the winner. 



Should the Stewards find the above provisions impracticable they shall make a 

 report to the Registry Office. 



(iii) In the case of a dead heat, the time for claiming or selling is postponed 

 until the dead Jtieat is run off. In case of a division, each of the horses dividing is 

 a winner for the purposes of the Rules relating to claiming and selling, and if an 

 auction race, both shall be put up to auction, and any surplus shall be divided, 

 half to go between those horses, and half to the Race Fund. 



61. In all other races with selling conditions only such horses as run to be sold 

 shall be liable to be sold or claimed ; but, with this exception, and the allowance 

 to apprentices, the foregoing rules relating to selling races shall apply. 



Race- H orses. — Age. 



62. The age of a horse shall be reckoned as beginning on the 1st of January'^in 

 the year in which he is foaled. 



63. Yearlings shall not run for any race, 



64. Two-years-old shall not run more than six furlongs before the 1st of July, 

 nor shall they run for handicaps before the 1st of September, nor in handicaps with 

 older horses. 



65. Naines of Horses. — (i) A name can only be claimed for a horse by applica- 

 tion at the Registry Office in London, with the description according to rule, when, 

 if there is no other horse of the same name, the name will be registered and pub- 

 lished in the first Sheet Calendar after it has been claimed, and will, from the date 

 of publication, be the horse's name under these rules. 



(ii) In the case of a horse which has been entered elsewhere than in Great 

 Britain, under the same name as one already registered, the name may be claimed for 

 him if accompanied by a numeral, and the name with the numeral will then be 

 registered and published as his name. 



(iii) If the same name be simultaneously claimed for two or more horses, the 

 order of priority shall be determined by lot at^the Registry Office. 



