EULES FOR EACING. 



Horses take their ages from May-day ; that is, a horse foaled any 

 time in the year 1828, will be deemed a year old on the 1st of May, 

 1829. 



Four inches are a hand. Fourteen pounds are a stone. 



Catehweights are, each party to appoint any person to ride without 

 weighing. 



A post match is to insert the age of the horses in the article, and to 

 run any horse of that age, without declaring what horse, till he come 

 to the post to start. 



Horses not entitled to start without producing a proper certificate of 

 their age, if required, at the time appointed in the articles, except where 

 aged horses are included, and in that case a junior horse may enter 

 without a certificate as to age, provided he carry the same weight as 

 the aged. 



No person shall start more than one horse of which he is the owner, 

 either wholly or in part, and either in his own name, or in that of any 

 other person, for any race for which heats are run. 



The horse that has his head to the ending post first, wins the heat. 



When heats are run, the preference of the horses to be determined hy 

 the place they get in the last heat. 



When a plate or subscription is given for the winner of the best of 

 three heats, a horse, to win the prize, must be the actual winner of two 

 heats, even though no horse appear against him for both or either of 

 the heats. 



When three horses have each won a heat, they only must start for a 

 fourth, and the preference amongst them will be determined by it, there 

 being before no difference amongst them. 



In running of heats, if it cannot be decided which horse is first, the 

 heat goes for nothing, and they may all start again, except it be between 

 two horses that had each won a heat. 



If a rid^r fall from his horse, and the horse be rode in by a person 

 who is sufficient weight, he shall take his place the same as if his rider 

 had not fallen, provided he goes back to the place where the rider fell. 



