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nominations rendered vacant are not filled by other subscribers. If he has parted 
with all interest in the nominations, and dogs not his property are entered and 
paid for, such entries shall not subsequently be disturbed. When dogs that 
have been entered in Produce Stakes change owners, with their engagements 
and with their forfeits paid, the then owner, if entitled to run them in those 
stakes, shall not be prevented from doing so by reason of the death of the former 
owner. 
13. Draw.—Immediately before the greyhounds are drawn at any meeting, 
and before nine o’clock on every subsequent evening during the continuance of 
. such meeting, the time and place of putting the first brace of dogs into the slips 
on the following morning shall be declared. A card or counter bearing a cor- 
responding number shall be assigned to each entry. These numbered cards or 
counters shall then be placed together and drawn indiscriminately. ‘This classifi- 
cation, once made, shall not be disturbed throughout the meeting, except for 
the purpose of guarding or on account of byes. 
14. GUARDING.—When two or more nominations in a stake are taken in one 
name, the greyhounds, if bond fide the property of the same owner, shall be 
guarded throughout. This is always to be arranged, as far as possible, by bring- 
ing up dogs from below to meet those which are to be guarded. This guarding 
is not, however, to deprive any dog of a natural bye to which he may be entitled, 
either in the draw or in running through the stake. Dogs whose position has 
been altered in consequence of guarding or of byes must return to their original 
position in the next round, if guarding does not prevent it. 
15. Byrs.—A natural bye shall be given to the lowest available dog in each 
round. No dog shall run.a second such bye in any stake, unless it is unavoid- 
able. When a dog is entitled to a bye, either natural or accidental, his owner 
or nominator may run any greyhound he pleases to assist in the course, provided 
always that in Sapling Stakes only a sapling may be used, and in Puppy Stakes 
none older than a puppy. But if it is proved to the satisfaction of the stewards 
that no sapling or puppy respectively can be found to run an accidental bye, an 
older dog may be used. No dog shall run any bye earlier than his position on 
the card entitles him todo. The slip and the course in a bye shall be the same 
as in a course in which a decision is required, and the judge shall decide whether 
enough has been done to constitute a course or whether it must be run again, 
and in the latter case the judge shall give the order. If at the commencement 
of any round in a stake one dog in each course of that round has a bye, those 
byes shall not be run, but the dogs shall take their places for the next round 
as if the byes had been run. A bye must be run before a dog can claim the 
advantage of it. 
16. SLIP-STEWARD.—The committee of an open meeting and the members of 
a club meeting shall appoint, on the first evening of a meeting, a slip-steward, 
whose duty shall be to see that every greyhound is brought to slips in its proper 
turn, to report to the stewards without delay any greyhound that does not 
come to the slips in time, and any act on the part of the slipper, nominators, or 
their representatives which he may consider should be brought to their know- 
ledge. If a nominator or his representative should refuse to comply with the 
directions of the slip-steward, or should use abusive aud insulting language 
towards him, the stewards may inflict a penalty not exceeding £2 on the person 
so offending. 
