other person he is liable only in case of default by the transferee, and in that case he may recover it from the transferee.

A person taking an entry under another person's subscription, where forfeit must be declared by a particular time, if he do not declare forfeit by that time, shall be considered to have taken the engagement upon himself, and the original subscriber shall cease to be liable.

28. Entrance money, stakes and forfeits must be paid in cash (if required) to the clerk of the course or authorized stakeholder. If any clerk of the course allow a horse to start in a race without his stake for that race having been paid, such clerk shall be liable for it himself.

Stakes and forfeits in a race belong to the winner, except as otherwise declared in the conditions, and the stakeholder shall render an account to him, or his agent, and pay over all stakes and added money within fifteen days of the conclusion of the meeting. If the race be never run or be void, they shall be returned.

Entrance money shall be paid into the race-fund of the meeting, except in the case of a sweepstakes where no money or less than 507. is given from the race-fund or other public source, in which case the entrance money shall go to the winner, or to some other horse or horses in the race.

29. A horse shall not start for a race unless there have been duly paid before weighing (1) any stake, entrance money or fee payable in respect of that race; (2) all arrears due from any person for such horse, or due for the same or any other horse from any person by whom such horse is wholly or partly owned, or in whose name or under whose subscription he is entered, and (3) the jockey's fee under Rule 54.

In this rule " arrears " includes any sums payable for fines, fees, entrance money, stakes, or forfeits in respect of any race at the same or any other meeting in the United Kingdom, and any sum in respect of which a person has been declared a defaulter: Provided that arrears of forfeits in respect of a meeting at any other place than the place at which the race is run shall not be included, unless notice of such forfeits being overdue has been published in the Unpaid Forfeit List or Steeple Chase Forfeit List, or delivered

in writing, signed by the party claiming the arrears, to the clerk of the course or stakeholder or to the person indebted, before ten in the evening preceding the race.

This rule shall apply to arrears at the Curragh and other recognised meetings in Ireland, or at any steeplechase meeting in the United Kingdom held under the Grand National Steeple Chase Rules, or Irish National Hunt Steeple Chase Rules.

The Unpaid Forfeit List.

30. (i) An Unpaid Forfeit List shall be kept at the registry office, and shall be published in the Sheet Calendar after the Newmarket July Meeting and again at the conclusion of the Racing season in every year. It shall include all due and unpaid entrances, stakes, fines, and forfeits which have been notified as hereinafter mentioned, and shall state the real name or names, and also the assumed name or names (if any), of the persons from whom, and the horses (if any) in respect of which the same are due. Entrances, stakes, fines, and forfeits which have been so published must be paid directly into the registry office, and until so paid they shall not be removed from the list.

(ii) Any person to whom any entrance, stake, fine, fee, or forfeit is payable (whether as an official or otherwise) may (or shall, if he be an official, within a month of the publication of the next Forfeit List) notify the same in writing, signed by him, to the registry office, or to the clerk of the course, and every such statement received by the clerk of the course shall be forthwith transmitted by him to the registry office. (iii) So long as the name of a person is in the Unpaid Forfeit List he cannot subscribe to any sweepstakes, and no horse can be entered by him or under his subscription for any race, whether acting as an agent or otherwise, and no horse which has been entered by him, or in his name, or under his subscription, or of which he is wholly or partly the owner, or which, after his default has been twice published in the Racing Calendar, shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards to be under his care, training, management, or superintendence, shall be qualified to run for any race; and so long as any horse is in the Unpaid Forfeit List, such horse shall not be entered or run for any race.

(iv) A corrected alphabetical Index of the horses and owners in the last Forfeit List and Irish Forfeit List shall be published in the first Calendar of every

Unpaid for

feit list

Weighing out and starting.

month during the racing season. Such monthly list shall commence not less than three years before the time at which it is published, and shall be carried down to and include the latest Forfeit List which has been published in the Sheet Calendar as above mentioned.

The Clerk of the Course at every meeting shall put up in his office during such meeting two copies of the last Monthly List for the time being.

(v) If any horse which, or the owner of which, is in any Forfeit List be allowed to start the Clerk of the Course shall be fined 107.

(vi) If a horse which, or the owner of which, is in any Forfeit List be entered for any race, the owner of such horse shall be fined 507.

PART VI.

THE RACE.

Weighing out and starting.

31. (i) A horse shall not be qualified to run in a race unless his name has been notified as a starter to the clerk of the scales on the day of the race, and his number exhibited one quarter of an hour before the time appointed for the race. If any alteration be made in a number after it has been exhibited, the stewards may call upon the owner, trainer, or jockey, for an explanation, and if no satisfactory explanation be given, the owner, trainer, or jockey, may be fined, and the horse shall not be allowed to start nor the jockey to ride again until the fine is paid. (ii) Every jockey who is to ride in the race shall weigh at the appointed or usual place, unless especially excused by the Stewards.

(iii) No person shall, without special leave from the Stewards in writing, be admitted to the weighingroom except the owner, trainer and jockey, or other person having the care of a horse engaged in the race.

(iv) If a jockey intend to carry overweight exceeding by more than two pounds the weight at which his horse is to run, he must declare the amount of such overweight. The declaration must be made to the clerk of the scales not later than twenty minutes before the time appointed for the start; and the clerk shall exhibit the amount of such extra weight with the number of the horse.

(v) If a horse carry more than two pounds overweight, which has not been duly declared, he is disqualified, unless the Stewards be satisfied that such excess of weight has been caused by wet weather.

(vi) Any overweight exceeding two pounds which has been carried, whether it has been duly declared or the horse has been disqualified, shall be published in the "Racing Calendar," and the clerk of the scales shall send a return thereof to the Registry Office.

(vii) Every trainer shall have his horse at the post, ready to start, at the time appointed by the Stewards; and every jockey is to be there, ready to start at the same time. Every trainer or jockey making default herein shall be fined.

(viii) The horses must be started by the official starter or his authorized deputy or substitute. No horse when once under the Starter's hands shall be allowed to go back and correct his weight, unless some accident has occurred to him.

(ix) The starter may give all such orders and take all such measures as are necessary for securing a fair start; and in particular he may, if he think it necessary, order the horses to be drawn up in a line as far behind the starting post as he thinks necessary.

(x) The horses must be started from a walk. If the starter allow a start to take place in front of the starting post, the start is void, and the horses must be started again, and the starter shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 501.

(xi) The horses shall (so far as is practicable) be drawn up before the start in an order (reckoned from the whip hand) to be determined, when the Stewards think fit, by lots to be drawn by the jockeys at the time of weighing out.

(xii) The person appointed to start the horses shall mark in his list the time when the horses in each race actually started; and if there have been any false starts, the first of them shall be considered as the time of starting for that race, and he shall make a report thereof to the Stewards in the afternoon of the day the races are run. And if any delay shall have taken place, he shall state by whom, or by what cause, the delay was occasioned.

(xiii) Every horse which comes up to the post in time to start shall be liable for his whole stake.

Running.

32. (i) A horse which crosses another is disqualified, unless it be proved that he was two clear lengths ahead of the other when he crossed.

(ii) If a horse or his jockey jostle another horse, or the jockey of another horse, the jockey which jostles

Crossing, jostling, &c.

in the race.

Running over again.

Walking

necessary.

the other is disqualified, unless it be proved that the jostle was wholly caused by the fault of some other jockey, or that the other horse or his jockey was partly in fault.

(iii) If a horse run the wrong side of a post he must turn back and run the course from the post at which he left it.

33. If a race has been run by all the horses at wrong weights, or a wrong distance, or when the Judge is not in the box, the Stewards shall order it to be run after the advertised time of the last race of the same day.

34. When only one horse appears for a match or over-when sweepstakes he must walk over, except by consent of the other persons engaged, or, in the case of a plate, by consent of the Stewards of the meeting; but on a division after a dead heat it shall not be necessary for a horse to walk over.

Weighing in.

Weighing in.

35. (i) Every jockey must, immediately after pulling up, ride his horse to the place of weighing, and there immediately dismount and be weighed by the clerk of the scales: Provided that, if a jockey be prevented from riding to the place of weighing by reason of accident or illness, by which he or his horse is disabled, he may walk or be carried to the scales.

(ii) If a jockey do not weigh in, or be short of weight, or be guilty of any fraudulent practice with respect to weight or weighing, or dismount before reaching the scales, or touch (except accidentally) any person or thing other than his own equipments before weighing in, his horse is disqualified, unless he can satisfy the stewards that he was justified by extraordinary circumstances.

(iii) It is optional for the jockey to weigh out or in with his bridle, and the clerk of the scales shall allow one pound for a curb or double bridle; but no weight shall be allowed for a snaffle bridle unless itis put into the scales before the horse is led away, and no whip or substitute for a whip shall be allowed in the scales.

If a horse run in a hood or clothing it must be put into the scale and included in the jockey's weight.

The Clerk of the Scales shall always put 2b extra into the scale to prove that the horse has not carried too much weight under Rule 31 (v.)