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a horse where the National Hunt Rules are in force, for twelve months from the 

 date of such offence, but this rule shall not apply to 



(^a) Races at Meetings confined to Resident Members of the Universities 

 of Oxford and Cambridge. 



(3) Pony or Galloway races at Meetings confined to Pony or Galloway 

 racing. 



i66. (i) If any person corruptly give or offer, or promise directly or indirectly, 

 any bribe in any form to any person having official duties in relation to a race or 

 race-horse, or to any trainer, rider, or agent, or to any other person having charge 

 of, or access to, any race-horse ; or 



(ii) If any person having official duties in relation to a race, or if a trainer, 

 rider, agent, or other person, having charge of, or access to, any race-horse, 

 corruptly accept or offer to accept any bribe in any form ; or 



(iii) Wilfully enter or cause to be entered or to start for any race a horse 

 which he knows or believes to be disqualified ; or 



(iv) If any person be proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards of the 

 National Hunt Committee to have surreptitiously obtained information respecting 

 a trial from any person or persons engaged in it, or in the service of the owner 

 or trainer of the horses tried, or respecting any horse in training from any person 

 in such service ; or 



(v) If any person be guilty of, or shall conspire with any other person for the 

 commission of, or shall connive at any other person being guilty of, any other 

 corrupt or fraudulent practice in relation to racing in this or any other country. 



Every person so offending shall be warned off all courses where these Rules 

 are in force. 



167. If any person be reported by the Committee of the Subscription Rooms 

 at Newmarket or at Tattersall's as being a defaulter in bets he shall be warned off 

 as in the last Rule mentioned, so long as his default continues. 



168. When a person is warned off all courses where these Rules are in force, 

 and so long as his exclusion continues, he shall not be qualified, whether acting as 

 an agent or otherwise, to subscribe for, enter, run, or ride any horse for any race 

 either in his own name or in that of any other person, and anj' horse of which he 

 is the nominator, or is (or was at the time of entry) wholly or partly the owner, or 

 which after the fact of his being warned off has been twice published in the Racing 

 Calendar, shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards to be, or to have 

 been, directly or indirectly, under his care, training, management, or superintend- 

 ence, shall be disqualified. 



Qualification for National Hunt Flat Races. 



169. The following provisions apply to National Hunt Flat Races — 

 (i) A horse to qualify to run for a National Hunt Flat Race must have been 

 placed by the Judge first, second, or third in a steeple chase in Great Britain or 

 Ireland, after having jumped all the fences, and completed the whole distance of 

 the race to the satisfaction of at least two of the Stewards, to whom previous 

 notice shall have been given in writing through the Clerk of the Course. 



(2) Such Stewards shall give a certificate to the above effect in the form 2 of 

 Appendix C. 



(3) Such certificate, or in the case of a horse qualified in Ireland, a copy of 

 such certificate, signed by the Secretary, and countersigned by a Steward of the 

 Irish National Hunt Steeple Chase Committee, must be lodged at the Registry 

 Office one clear week before running, with a fee of 5s. for registration. 



(4) Any certificate is invalidated by the disqualification of the horse for the 

 race in which it was obtained. 



(5) Horses for National Hunt Flat Races must be ridden by Qualified Riders. 

 They cannot be handicapped, but shall not carry less than list. 



(6) The provisions of Running and Walking Over as to running shall be in 

 force in National Hunt Flat Races so far as applicable. 



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