732 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 



over the advertised value it shall be paid to the winner, unless provided by the 

 conditions to go to other horses in the race. A race maj' be declared void provided 

 the number of entries required by advertisement be not obtained, but the value of 

 a prize once advertised shall not be reduced. 



i6o. When a cup or plate or any added money is advertised to be run for, it 

 shall be given in the event of a walk-over. 



When a walk-over (except after a dead heat) is the result of arrangement by 

 the owners of horses engaged, neither a cup nor any portion of the advertised 

 money need be given. 



i6i. Any money or prize which by the conditions is to go to the horse placed 

 second, or in any lower place, shall, if the winner have walked over or no horse has 

 been placed second, be dealt with as follows, namely : — 



(i) If part of the stakes or plate it shall go to the winner ; or 



(ii) If a separate donation from the race fund, or any other source, it shall 

 not be given at all ; or 



(iii) If entrance money for the race, it shall go to the race fund of the 

 meeting. 



162. No prize shall be given to any but to the first four horses placed. 



163. No deductions shall be made from the value of any race except such as 

 are gained by other horses in the race, and except Clerks, stakeholding, and 

 weighing fees, as fixed by rule, or any sums assigned, under the conditions of a 

 race to the Bentinck Benevolent or Rous Memorial Funds. 



164. If a race be never run or be void, stakes, forfeits, and entrance money 

 shall be returned. 



165. A race may be declared void if no qualified horse cover the course 

 according to rule. 



Disputes, Objections, Appeals, etc. 



166. Every objection shall be decided by the Stewards, but their decision 

 shall (if they are not the Stewards of the Jockey Club) be subject to appeal to 

 the Stewards of the Jockey Club, so far as relates to points involving the inter- 

 pretation of these rules, or to any question, other than a question of fact ; on 

 which there shall be no appeal unless by leave of the Stewards and with the 

 consent of the Stewards of the Jockey Club. Notice of appeal must be given 

 in writing to the Clerk of the Course within forty-eight hours of the decision 

 being made known. 



167. All disputes, objections, and appeals referred to or brought before the 

 Stewards of the Jockey Club for their decision, shall be decided by the three 

 Stewards ; if only two Stewards be present they shall fix upon a third person, 

 being a member of the Club, in lieu of the absent Steward, but the Stewards 

 may call in any other members of the Jockey Club to their assistance, or may, 

 if they think the importance or difficulty of the case requires such a course, 

 refer it to a general meeting, 



168. Objections^ when and how made. — (i) If an objection to a horse engaged 

 in a race be made not later than half-past ten in the morning of the day of the 

 race, the Stewards may require his qualification to be proved before the race ; and 

 in default of such proof being given to their satisfaction, they may declare him 

 disqualified. 



(ii) An objection to the distance of a course officially designated must be 

 made before a race. 



(iii) An objection to any decision of the Clerk of the Scales must be made at 

 once. 



(iv) An objection to a horse, on the ground of a cross, jostle, or any act on the 

 part of his jockey, or of his not having run the proper course, or of the race 

 having been run on a wrong course, or of any other matter occurring in the 

 race, mjist be made within a quarter of an hour after the winner has weighed in, 

 unless, under special circumstances, the Stewards are satisfied that it could not 

 have been made within that time. 



(v) An objection on the ground, 



(a) That the horse which ran was not the horse which he was represented 



