horse, &c. having a name in the Stud-Book or Racing Calendar, it will be sufficient to name it as such. If the dam or grandam be sister (but which sister must be specified, if there be more than one), or dam or grandam of any horse, &c. having a name in the Stud-Book or Racing Calendar, it will be sufficient to mention her as such. If the dam or grandam is not known, the sire of the horse, &c. must be mentioned, together with such other particulars as will be sufficient to identify the animal. If a horse has once appeared in the Racing Calendar by a name and his pedigree, it will be sufficient afterwards to mention him by his name only, even though he has never started. If the dam was covered by more than one stallion, the names of all of them must be mentioned.

18. If any horse, &c. shall be named or entered without being identified as before directed, he shall not be allowed to start in the race, but his owner shall be liable to pay the forfeit, or, if a play or pay race, the whole stake. All bets on a horse so disqualified for

starting shall be void.

For other causes of disqualification, see rules under the head of stakes and bets.

In case any objection to the qualification of a horse on the ground of incorrect pedigree or nomination be made before the race is run, the Stewards shall have the power of ordering that the settlement on such race shall be suspended until the objection shall have been investigated; but if any such objection be made after the race, it shall not affect the bets, which must go with the horse that comes in first, provided that he is of the right age, and not otherwise disqualified by the laws of racing.

19. No person who has once subscribed to a stake shall be allowed to withdraw his name, and no nomination shall be altered in any respect after the time of closing without the consent of all the parties in the race being first obtained.

20. When a person takes a nomination for a stake, in which the forfeit is to be declared by a particular time, and does not declare forfeit by the time fixed in the article, he shall thenceforth be considered to have taken the engagement on himself, and his name shall be substituted for that of the original subscriber.

21. When any person enters a horse in a fictitious name, the person so entering must be held responsible for the stake or forfeit, exactly as if such horse had been entered in his own name; and in the event of the forfeit not being paid at the proper time, the person making the nomination shall have his name posted and advertised in the usual manner, and be liable to all the penalties of a defaulter.

22. When the day fixed for closing or naming for any stake, or for declaring forfeit or produce, shall fall on Sunday, subscriptions

nominations, or declarations for such stake may be received on the following day, provided that there is an interval of one clear day between the day of closing, naming, or declaring, and the day of running.

23. In every sweepstakes in which there shall be any allowance of weight to the produce of untried horses or mares, such allowance shall be claimed on the article by each subscriber before the expiration of the time of naming; and if not so claimed no allowance shall be made, even though the horse or mare should prove to have been untried at the time of naming.

Respecting Stakes, Forfeits, and Bets.

24. All stakes for matches, subscriptions, and sweepstakes shall be made before the hour of starting for the first race of the day, in cash, bank-bills, or bankers' notes, payable on demand, and be paid into the hands of the person appointed by the Stewards to receive the same and in default thereof by any person, he shall pay the whole stake as a loser, whether his horse came in first or not, unless such person shall have previously obtained the consent of the party or parties with whom he is engaged, to his not staking. But this rule is not to extend to bets, which are to be paid and received as if no such omission had happened.

When any person has more than one nomination in a stake, he shall not be allowed to start any horse for it unless the forfeits be paid for every horse which does not start, belonging to him, or standing in his name, or in the same name as the horse which runs, as well as the stakes for those which do.

25. A day-book shall be kept by the person appointed by the Stewards to receive the stakes, in which shall be entered an account of all matches, subscriptions, and sweepstakes, to be run for and as the different stakes are made, they shall be entered therein as paid.

All forfeits or money paid on compromising any match or weepstakes shall bona fide be entered in the Day-book, in order that all betters may ascertain in what proportion they are to pay and receive.

26. Five pounds per cent. shall be allowed on all forfeits under 100%. declared to the Keeper of the Match-book, at or before ten o'clock the evening before running; and if the forfeit amount to 100%. and upwards, 10l. per cent, shall be allowed. All forfeits shall be paid before twelve o'clock at night of the day fixed for the race, and on those forfeits which shall not be so paid the deduction for the timely declaration of such forfeits shall not be allowed.

No horse shall be considered as struck out of his engagement,

unless the owner, or some person authorised by him, shall give notice to the Keeper of the Match-book, or to his Clerk, or to one of the Stewards present.

27. No person shall start a horse for any race, either in his own name, or in that of any other person, unless both the owner and namer of such horse shall have paid all former stakes and forfeits to the Keeper of the Match-book before the time fixed for starting for the first race of each day on which he intends to start his horse. And this rule shall extend to forfeits due elsewhere than at Newmarket, provided a notice of such forfeits being due shall have been delivered to the Keeper of the Match-book by ten o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running.

No horse shall start for any race unless all former stakes and forfeits due for that horse shall be paid before the time fixed for starting for the first race of the day on which such horse is intended to run, provided that an objection to such horse starting shall have been made by ten o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running, to the Keeper of the Match-book.

28. A list of all stakes and forfeits due at Newmarket, or elsewhere, shall be exhibited in the Coffee-room at Newmarket, and a similar list at Messrs Weatherby's office, in London.

The Keeper of the Match-book shall enter upon this list all stakes and forfeits at Newmarket that are left unpaid at the expiration of the week following that in which the same shall have been incurred.

The Stewards or Managers of races elsewhere are recommended to direct the person appointed to receive stakes to send to Messrs Weatherby a list of unpaid forfeits, as soon after the races as conveniently may be, in order that the same may be placed upon the Forfeit List, and if the stake-holder shall omit to make such last mentioned return within a reasonable time, it may be made by the respective winners of the races for which the forfeits are due. These returns in all cases to be made in writing and signed by the parties making them.

29. In case any forfeit shall remain unpaid three calendar months from the time at which it has been put first upon the list, a notice of such forfeit being due, with the name of the subscriber to the stake, and the name or description of the horse, with the name, or sufficient description of the stake, and the amount of the forfeit, shall be advertised in every succeeding sheet Racing Calendar, until Messrs Weatherby shall receive notice in writing from the stake-holder at the place where the forfeit was incurred, or from the winner of the race, that the same is paid, or until it shall be paid at Messrs Weatherby's office.

No person whose name shall appear in such advertised list shall

be entitled to enter or name a horse for any plate, sweepstakes, or subscription, either in his own name or in the name of any other person, unless he shall pay up all the forfeits, in respect of which his name appears in the list, before the expiration of the time of naming for such stake, &c. and no horse which appears on such list shall be qualified to be entered for any race whatever, unless the forfeits mentioned in the said list as due for such horse shall be paid before the expiration of the time of naming or entering for such race; and no horse, whose name shall appear in such list, shall be qualified to start for any race, unless the aforesaid forfeits shall be paid before the time fixed for starting for the first race of the day on which such horse is intended to run.

30. And in order to prevent persons, who are defaulters, from evading these laws, and continuing to engage horses by the use of fictitious names, the Stewards of the Jockey Club shall have the power of calling upon a nominator to produce satisfactory testimony that the horse named is not the property, either wholly or in part, of any person whose name appears in the advertised list of defaulters; and if the nominator shall fail to do so, the Stewards may cause the nomination to be erased.

31. All persons whose names appear on the list of defaulters may be warned off the Course, at the discretion of the Stewards, and prohibited from training or exercising horses on any part of the ground in the occupation of the Jockey Club.

32. When a horse is sold with his engagements, or any part of them, and a notification of such sale is delivered to the Keeper of the Match-book, the seller shall not have the power, after the delivery of such notification, of striking the horse out of the engagements with which he is sold; but as the original subscriber remains liable to the respective winners for the amount of the forfeits in each of these engagements, he may if compelled to pay them by the purchaser's default, place the forfeit on the Forfeit List in the usual manner, as due from the purchaser to himself; and until this forfeit is repaid, both the purchaser and the horse shall remain under the same disabilities as if the purchaser had been the original subscriber. In all cases of sale by private treaty the written acknowledgment of both parties that the horse was sold with the engagement shall be necessary to entitle either buyer or seller to the benefit of this rule.

33. When a person has a horse engaged in the name of another person, and is entitled, by purchase or otherwise, to start the horse for such engagement, but, in consequence of the namer being on the list of defaulters, should be prevented from starting his horse without previously paying up a forfeit to which he was not otherwise liable, he may, if he pay this forfeit, start his horse, leaving

the forfeit on the list, and substituting his own name for that of the person to whom it was previously due; and if he should be compelled by the Laws of Racing to pay any forfeit, which had not yet been put upon the List, he may, after paying the amount of the forfeit, have it put upon the Forfeit List in the usual manner, as due to himself.

34. If any bet shall be made from signal or indication, after the race has been determined, such bet shall be considered as fraudulent and void, and shall not be paid. And if any servant belonging to a member of this society shall be found to have betted from any such signal, or shall be concerned in making any such signal, he shall be dismissed from his service, and no further employed by any member of this society.

35. All stakes and bets, whether expressed to be in guineas or pounds, shall be paid in pounds sterling.

36. All double bets shall be considered as play or pay bets.

37. All bets depending between any two horses shall be void if those horses become the property of the same person, or of his avowed confederate, subsequently to the bets being made.

38. All bets between particular horses shall be void if neither of them happen to be the winner, unless agreed by the parties to the contrary.

39. If a match or sweepstakes be made for any particular day in any race-week, and the parties agree to change the day to any other in the same week, all bets must stand; but if the parties agree to run the race in a different week, all bets made before the alteration shall be void.

40. When the riders of any horses brought out to run for any race are called upon by the person appointed to start them, to take their places for that purpose, the owner of every horse which comes up to the post shall be considered as liable to pay his whole stake, and all bets respecting such horses shall be considered as play or pay bets.

41. When any better has been adjudged to be a defaulter, by the Stewards of the Jockey Club, notice shall be given to him that he will not be permitted any longer to come into the Coffee-room yard at Newmarket, nor upon the Race Course there, until it shall have been certified to the Keeper of the Match-book, by his several creditors, that their claims have been satisfied; and if after such notice he should disregard the prohibition, it shall be enforced against him by the usual legal process; at the expiration of the Spring and October Meetings, the names of such defaulters shall be communicated to Messrs Tattersall, in order that they may also be excluded from the Betting-room in their yard.

The Stewards of the Jockey Club will not entertain any