52. All fines shall be paid to the Bentinck Benevo- Fines. lent Fund. Omission of Conditions. Omissions, howsupplied 53. (i) When any match or sweepstakes is made, and no weight mentioned, the horses shall carry 8st 10th each, and if any weight be given the highest of weight; weight shall be 8st 121b. (ii) When any match or sweepstakes is made, and of course no course mentioned, the course shall be as follows: If two years old, six furlongs If five years old, or upwards, four miles . And if the horses be of different age, the course shall be fixed by the age of the youngest. (iii) If no day be mentioned for a race, it shall be of day. run on the last day of the meeting, unless otherwise agreed by all the parties engaged. Jockeys' Fees. 54. In the absence of special agreement the fee Jockeys'fees. to a winning jockey shall be five guineas, and to a losing jockey three guineas, and no further charge except for expenses shall be allowed. All jockeys' fees shall be paid to the Stakeholder or Clerk of the Course at the same time as the stakes, as by Rule 28. In the absence of special agreement, a jockey who accepts a retainer cannot terminate it otherwise than by two months' notice in writing, ending at the end of the year; and failing such notice, his retainer continues for the next season, and so on from season to season until duly terminated by such notice as above-mentioned, provided the same or any agreed retaining fee is paid in advance in respect of each season before the commencement thereof. Employers retaining the same jockey have prece. dence according to the priority of their retainers. A retainer which is continued as above-mentioned has priority as from the date of its first commencement. If a jockey be prevented from riding by suspension for fraudulent practices or other misconduct, any person who has retained him may cancel the retainer. Surdays omitted. The Stewards of the Jockey Club shall have power to release a jockey from his retainer for any cause appearing to them sufficient. No jockey shall ride in races on Newmarket Heath, or elsewhere where these Rules are in force, until he shall have obtained a licence from the Stewards of. the Jockey Club, on application at the Registry Office, but no rider will be required to take out a licence. until the last day of the week in which he shall have ridden a winner for the first time. Every jockey shall on application for a licence furnish Messrs Weatherby with his full name and address. A list of the licensed jockeys shall be published annually in the Racing Calendar. Any rider who shall infringe these rules will be reported to the Stewards of the Jockey Club, who may suspend him from riding. Any owner, or trainer, or both, who shall knowingly employ an unlicensed jockey, shall be fined not less than 25%. each. 55. No trainer shall engage any lad or other stable servant, without previously referring to his last employer in the United Kingdom, France, Austria, or Hungary, and receiving a satisfactory reply in writing. Any trainer infringing this rule and continuing to employ such boy after notice has been served on him, shall not be allowed to train or run horses where these Rules are in force; and any lad leaving his master before the terms of his engagement are complete shall be disqualified from riding in any race. Any boy prevented from obtaining employment by this rule shall have the right of appeal to the Stewards of the Jockey Club. Every jockey at the termination of his apprenticeship is free to form engagements for himself, irrespective of any which may have been made for him during such apprenticeship. Calculation of Time. 56. When the last day for doing anything in relation to a race falls on a Sunday, it may be done on the following Monday, unless the race to which such act relates is appointed for that day, in which case it must be done on the previous Saturday. Recognised Meetings or Races. or races. 57. Any meeting or race shall be deemed recognised Recognised which is held under the Rules and sanction of the meetings established Jockey Club, or other Turf authority of the country in which it is held or run; or (where no such authority exists) under these Rules; and no horse which has run in any unrecognised race, or at any unrecognised meeting, shall be allowed to run at any meeting under these Rules. New Rules. 58. No new Rule of Racing can be passed, nor can New Rules. any existing rule be rescinded or altered without being previously advertised three times in the "Sheet Calendar," and notice given of the meeting of the Jockey Club at which it is to be proposed; and no new rule, or repeal or alteration of a rule, shall take effect until it has been confirmed at the meeting ensuing that at which it was passed, and until it has been twice published in the Sheet Calendar. Any owner of race horses or persons affected by such new rule, rescission, or alteration, may, before it is. made, petition the Jockey Club through the Secretary. All such petitions shall be laid before the meeting before the question is put. 量 Mode of annual election. In case of death or resignation. Substitute for absent Stewards. RULES AND ORDERS OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. [These are only applicable to races run at Newmarket. Respecting the Stewards. 1. The three Stewards of the Jockey Club shall be continued in their office till the next annual financial meeting (which takes place in the Craven) when the senior Steward shall vacate after settling the accounts made up to the 31st of December preceding, and shall then name a member of the Jockey Club to succeed him, subject to the approbation of the Members of the Jockey Club then present, and at every subsequent financial meeting the senior Steward shall, in like manner, retire and propose his successor. 2. If any of the Stewards shall die or resign, the remaining Stewards may appoint a member of the Club to succeed the deceased or declining Steward, but such nomination shall be notified to the Club at the first general meeting, and if the appointment meet their approval, the said member shall remain in office until the expiration of his predecessor's time. 3. When only one Steward is present, and neither of the absent Stewards shall have appointed a substitute, the member of the Jockey Club present who has last served the office shall act ex officio. TheStewarde 4. The three Stewards shall have the complete conhave power trol of the property and estates of the Club, with ---to appoint officers: power to mortgage, sell, let upon lease, or exchange, if necessary, subject to the approval of the next General Meeting of the Club, and further, shall have the power of appointing all the public officers and the servants of the Club; the Keeper of the Matchbook to receive the stakes and collect the entrancemoney, and all other funds belonging to the Jockey Club; and the Stewards shall produce an account of the funds and disbursements of the Club at the annual financial meeting, and they shall be responsible to the Club for the correctness of the annual accounts, and for all the money collected as belonging to the Jockey Club. 5. The Stewards shall fix the hour of starting for each race at or before nine o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running, and notice of the time of starting is to be fixed up in the Coffee-room immediately afterwards. to fix time of starting. 6. The Stewards have full power to make such regu- to lations as they may think proper in regard to the the Course, Exercising-ground, Club Premises, and Estates. 7. All disputes relating to racing at Newmarket shall be determined by the three Stewards; if only two Stewards be present they shall fix upon a third person, being a member of the Club, in lieu of the absent Steward, but the Stewards, if they think fit, may call in any other members of the Jockey Club to their assistance, or may refer the case to a general meeting, if the importance or difficulty of the matter in dispute shall appear to them to require it. The witnesses examined shall be required to sign their evidence, and if either party desire to have a short-hand writer engaged to take down the evidence, the Stewards may (if they think proper) engage a writer at the expense of the person making the request. 8. If any dispute arising elsewhere shall be referred to the Stewards of the Jockey Club, and they shall think fit to take it into consideration, the matter must relate to horse-racing, and be sent by the Stewards of the Meeting where the matter in question occurred. 9. The Jockey Club and the Stewards thereof take no cognizance of any disputes or claims with respect to bets. 10. The Stewards have a discretionary power to warn any person off the Race-course at Newmarket, or any premises belonging to the Jockey Club, and in case of such notice being disregarded, to take legal proceedings against the offenders. 11. All meetings of the Club shall be called by the Stewards at their discretion. Notice of Meetings at Newmarket for the transaction of general business, and the days upon which they are to be held, must be given in the Sheet Calendar published during the previous week, manage Course and Exercise ground: |