198 RULES OF THE UNION COURSE. 
15.‘\Horszs Breaxrye.—Should any horse break 
from his trot or pace, it shall be the duty of the rider or 
driver to pull his horse to a trot or pace immediately, 
and in case of the rider or driver refusing to do so, the pen- 
alty shall be that the next best horse shall have the heat ; 
if the rider or driver should comply with the above, and 
he should gain by such break, twice the distance so 
gained shall be taken away on the coming out; a horse 
breaking on the score shall not lose the heat by so doing. 
16. Tae Winntinc Horsze—A horse must win two 
heats to be entitled to the purse, unless he distance all 
other horses in one heat. A distanced horse in a dead 
heat shall not start again. . 
17. Retative to Heats.—A horse not winning one 
heat in three shall not start for a fourth heat, unless 
such horse shall have made a dead heat. When a dead 
heat is made between two horses, that if either had won 
the heat the race would have been decided, they two 
only shall start again; in races best three in five, a 
horse shall win one heat in five to be allowed to start 
for the sixth heat, unless such horse shall have made a 
dead heat; such horses as are prevented from starting 
by this rule shall be considered drawn, and not distanced. 
18, On Heats anv Disrances.—If two horses each 
win a heat, and neither are distanced in the race, the 
one coming out ahead on the last heat to be considered 
the best. The same rule to be applied to horses neither 
winning a heat and neither distanced. If one horse wins 
a heat, he is better than one that does not, providing he 
does not get distanced in the race; then the other, if 
not distanced, shall be best. A horse that wins a heat 
and is distanced is better than one not winning a heat 
and being distanced inthe same heat. A horse dis- 
