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Stewards, be admitted to the Weighing-room, except Members of the National 

 Hunt Committee, the owner, trainer, and rider, or other person having the care of a 

 horse engaged in the race, and any person refusing to leave shall be reported to 

 the Stewards. 



125. Weighing Out. — Each rider must be weighed for a specified horse by the 

 Clerk of the Scales, at the appointed place, not less than a quarter of an hour 

 before the time fixed for the race, and the numbers shall then be exhibited as soon 

 as possible. In exceptional cases, or where the delay of a previous race has 

 rendered punctuality impossible, the Stewards may extend the time allowed 

 for weighing, declaring weight, and for exhibiting the numbers. 



126. When the numbers have been exhibited, no alteration or addition can be 

 made without the leave of the Stewards, whose reasons for such permission shall 

 be reported at the Registry Office. 



Should any horse not start whose number has been exhibited, the owner and 

 any other person responsible may be fined, or otherwise dealt with, at the 

 discretion of the Stewards. 



127. If a rider intends to carry over-weight, he must declare the amount 

 thereof at the time of weighing out, or, if in doubt as to his proper weight, the 

 weight he intends to carry. 



128. It is optional for a rider to weigh out or in with his bridle, and the Clerk 

 of the Scales shall, if requested, allow lib for a curb or double bridle, but if a horse 

 run in a hood, martingale, breastplate, or clothing, it must be put into the scale 

 and included in the riders' weight. 



129. No whip or substitute for a whip shall be allowed in the scales. 



Starting. 



130. The horses must be started by the official starter or his authorised 

 substitute. 



131. Every horse must be at the post ready to start at the appointed time ; any 

 owner, trainer, or rider making default herein may be fined at the discretion of the 

 Stev;ards a sum not exceeding 5 sov. 



132. All riders, on arrival at the starting post, must immediately place them- 

 selves under the Starter's orders, and no horse, when once under his orders, shall 

 go back, except in the case of an accident. 



Running and Walking Over. 



133. Rimning. — An owner running two or more horses in a race may declare 

 to win with one of them, and such declaration must be made at scale. The rider 

 of a horse with which the owner has not declared to win, must on no account 

 stop such horse except in favour of the horse on whose behalf declaration to win 

 has been made. 



134. (i) In a National Hunt flat race or welter flat race a horse which crosses 

 another in any part of the race is disqualified, unless it be proved that he was two 

 clear lengths ahead of the other when he crossed. 



(ii) In a steeple chase or hurdle race a horse shall be disqualified if his rider, 

 by foul riding, jeopardised the chance of success of any other horse in the race, 

 and in the run home from the last hurdle or fence, section (i) of this rule shall 

 apply ; the Stewards have power to fine a rider for the above offence any sum not 

 exceeding 50 sov. In all cases the Stewards have power of suspending a rider 

 until the expiration of the meeting, or, should they consider such punishment 

 insufficient, until the case can be heard and decided by the Stewards of the 

 National Hunt Committee. 



(iii) If a horse or his rider jostle another horse or rider, the aggressor is dis- 

 qualified, unless it be proved that the jostle was wholly caused by the fault of some 

 other rider, or that the jostled horse or his rider was partly in fault. 



(iv) If a horse run the wrong side of a post he must turn back and run the 

 course from such post. 



135. If a race has been run by all the horses at wrong weights, or over a wrong 

 course or distance, or if the Judge, or his authorised substitute 01 a Steward is 



