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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 



two or more horses, and run any one or more of them, as the conditions 

 prescribe. 



A " produce race " is one to be run for by the produce of the horses named at 

 the time of entry. 



A " selling race " is one in which any horse running " to be sold," if a loser, 

 may be claimed, and if the winner, must be offered for sale by auction, or be liable 

 to be claimed. 



A " weight-for-age " race is a race in which weights are apportioned to horses 

 according to their ages, and remains a weight-for-age race, even if there are 

 penalties and allowances. 



A match at ''catch weights" means one for which the riders need not weigh 

 before or after the race. 



The "nominator" is the person in whose name a horse is entered for a race. 

 '' Owner " includes " part-owner " or " lessee." 



"Arrears" are any sums unpaid in respect of fines, compensation, fees, 

 entrance money, stakes, subscriptions, forfeits, and purchase money in races with 

 selling conditions. 



The expression " disqualified person " includes — 



{a) Every person who is warned otf Newmarket Heath or other courses. 

 ((5) Every person whose name is in the For.'eit List or list of arrears officially 

 notified by a recognised Turf authority of any country until the 

 default is cleared. 

 {c) Every person who has been reported as a defaulter in bets under 

 Corrupt Practices, etc., until it has been officially notified that such 

 default is cleared. 

 id) Every person who has been declared by the Turf authorities of, or by 

 the Stewards of, any recognised meeting in the United Kingdom or 

 any other country to have been guilty of any corrupt or fraudulent 

 practice on the 'I'urf. 

 (ii) These Rules apply to all meetings held under the sanction of the National 

 Hunt Committee, and to all races run at such meetings, but they do not apply to 

 (fl) Yeomanry races confined to chargers and troop horses, and held during 

 the time of the annual training, under the Stewardship of the Com- 

 manding Officer. 

 (Jj) Point to point steeple chases held under the Stewardship of the Master 

 of Foxhounds or Staghounds, or of a Master of Harriers (being a 

 member of the Association of Masters of Harriers), of the country in 

 which they are run, of which notice shall have been given at the 

 Registry Office (on a form to be obtained therefrom) not less than 

 seven days before the holding thereof, with a fee of los., and for 

 which a certificate in form I of Appendix C to these Rules, and signed 

 by such Master as aforesaid, shall be lodged at the Registry Office 

 within fourteen days after the holding thereof. 

 All other meetings, to which the public are admitted, not held under the 

 sanction of the National Hunt Committee or other Turf authority of the country 

 in which they are held, are " unrecognised meetings," and every horse which has 

 run at such meeting is disqualified for all races under these rules. 



Calculation of Time. 



2. A meeting shall be deemed to commence at ten in the morning of the day 

 for which the first race is advertised, and to conclude at ten in the evening of the 

 last day of the races. 



3. When the last day for doing an)n;hing under these rules falls on a Sunday, 

 it may be done on the following Monday, unless a race to which such act relates 

 is appointed for that day, in which case it must be done on the previous Saturday. 



4. A " month " means a calendar month ; a "day " means twenty-four hours. 



Stewards of the National Hunt Committee and their Powers. 



5. (i) The Stewards of the National Hunt Committee for the time being have 

 full power to sanction or prohibit any meeting to which these Rules apply, or any 



