PART III.

GENERAL CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.

Age of Horses.

9. (i) The age of a horse shall be reckoned as beginning on the 1st of January in the year in which he is foaled.

(ii) Yearlings shall not run for any race. Twoyear olds shall not run for any handicap before the 1st of September, nor after that date with any but two-year-olds.

(iii) Two-year-olds shall not run more than six furlongs before the 1st of July, nor less than five furlongs at any time.

(iv) Three-year-olds and upwards shall not run less than five furlongs for a Plate or Sweepstakes.

Weights and Allowances.

10. (i) No horse shall carry less than 5st 7th in any plate or sweepstakes.

(ii) The top weight in a handicap shall not be less than 8st 12th, and if the highest weight accepting be less than this it shall be raised to 8st 12th, and the other weights shall be raised in proportion;

(iii) No horse shall receive allowance of weight, or be relieved from extra weight, for having been beaten in one or more races; Provided that this rule shall not prohibit maiden allowances.

(iv) No horse shall carry extra weight for having run second, or in any lower place in any race or races: Provided that this rule shall not exempt a horse which has received 1007. or upwards for having been placed, from being debarred from maiden allowance by the conditions of any particular race.

(v.) Allowances and extra weights shall not be allowed or incurred in respect of matches or private sweepstakes, and penalties are not cumulative unless so declared by the conditions of the race.

(vi) Where winners of selling races are exempted from penalties, only such horses as have run to be sold shall be entitled to the allowance.

Miscellaneous.

11. Subject to the express provisions of the conditions of a race, the following rules shall apply to all conditions of races :

(i) Winnings during the year shall include all prizes from the commencement of the racing season to the time appointed for the start, and shall apply to all recognised races in any country, and winning shall include walking over or receiving forfeit.

(ii) The value of prizes not in money must be advertised.

(iii) In estimating the amount a horse has won in any one or more races, account shall be taken of all cups or moneys, whether derived from stakes, bonus, or any other source, gained by him for his owner or for any other person, only his own stake and entrance, and any money payable to other horses by the conditions of the race being deducted.

(iv) Conditions referring to maidens shall mean maidens at the time of the start.

12. No plate or sweepstakes shall be run for unless the clear value to the winner (calculated under Rule 11), in case the race be run by two or more horses, will amount to £100. But if the value would amount to £100, if the race were so run, a horse may walk over, although he thereby receives less than £100. When a sweepstakes has been so reduced by the death of subscribers that the payments to second or other horses, according to conditions, would reduce the value, if run for, to less than £100 (calculated under Rule 11), the second or other horses shall lose their right to participate in the stakes.

(ii) When a Cup is advertised to be run for it shall in all cases be given, even if walked over for.

(iii) When a walk over (except after a dead heat) is the result of arrangement by the owners of horses engaged, neither a cup nor any portion of the adver tised money need be given.

Minimum value of

plate or stakes.

13 (i) No entrance fee to any fund but that devoted Fees. to the winner of the race shall exceed 3 per cent. on the added money. In the case of races for a fixed sum to be raised by subscription, when there shall be any surplus over the advertised value, it shall be paid either to the winner or other horses in the race, and in no case shall the winner subscribe.

No deductions shall be made from any race except such as are gained by horses in the race, and except discount, Clerks' fees, stakeholding, and weighing fees, as fixed by rule.

(ii). The Stakeholder shall be allowed to retain, out of the stakes in his hands, the following fees for expenses, viz.—

For every match, one pound.

For every plate, one pound.

For every subscription or sweepstakes where the lowest forfeit amounts to 20 sov. per cent. on the whole stake, and on all other races 1 per cent.

Horses must be duly entered for plate or sweepstakes.

Time and place of entry.

Entry Low made.

(iii) 2s. 6d. shall be the maximum charge for Clerk's fee for entry, and the same for weighing.

(iv). Provided that in the case of any meeting at which it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards of the Jockey Club, that no more than a reasonable interest upon capital invested is applied to any purpose other than the support of the races, and that the scale upon which the officials are remunerated is not excessive, they may sanction such modification of this Rule as they may consider expedient.

PART IV.

ENTRY AND SUBSCRIPTION FOR RACES.

14. A borse shall not be qualified to run for any plate or sweepstakes unless he has been and continues duly entered for the same.

15. A time and place or places for the entry of horses for every plate or sweepstakes must be advertised in the Sheet Racing Calendar!" Provided that if the time so advertised fall during a Newmarket race week, any entry to be made at Messrs Weatherby's may be made at Newmarket, whether so advertised or not.

The list of entries shall be closed at the advertised time, and no entry shall be permitted in any case or on any terms to be made after that time.

If no hour be fixed for closing, the list shall not be closed till midnight on the advertised day.

No declaration of forfeit, except for races of the current week, shall be fixed to be made at any hour earlier than the end of the day, nor on any day but Tuesday.

All entries made elsewhere than at Messrs Weatherby's office (except entries made during the week of the meeting or on the Saturday preceding the meeting) shall be lodged at that office within forty eight hours after the day of closing, or twelve hours if intended for publication in the next Calendar, or the receiver of nominations shall be fined 10 sov. and the nomination shall be void unless the nominator can prove to the satisfaction of the Stewards of the Jockey Club that the entry was made in due time.

16. Entry shall be made by writing, signed by the owner of the horse or by some person deputed by him, or by telegraph, which shall be equally binding. Entries by telegram must, however, be confirmed in writing at the earliest possible opportunity, and in all cases before the time of weighing, or the horse shall not be allowed to start.

It shall state the name of the owner and the name or description of the horse, and (if the race be for horses of different ages) the age which the horse will be at the time of the race.

Entrance money must (if so required) be paid at the time of entry.

Allowances, when practicable under the conditions of the race, must be claimed at the time of entry, or they shall not be allowed.

17. In entering a horse for the first time he shall be described by stating his colour (when possible), and whether he is a horse, mare or gelding, and the Calendar or Stud-book names of his sire and dam. If the dam was covered by more than one stallion the names of all must be stated, and by which stallion the mare was last covered. If the sire or dam has no name in the Calendar or Stud-book, such further pedigree and description must be added as will clearly distinguish the horse entered from all other horses, and if the pedigree of the sire or dam be unknown, such further particulars as to where they were purchased or obtained must be given as will identify them.

18. The description as in the last rule mentioned must be repeated in every entry of the horse until an entry of him by description, with a proposed name, has been published in the "Racing Calendar." In any entry after such publication it will be sufficient to enter him by such name without description.

If a horse be entered with a proposed name for the first time in several races closing on the same day, the description need not be added in more than the first of such entries.

19. Whenever the name of a horse which has run in any country is changed, his old name as well as his new name must be given in every entry until the change has been published in two Monthly Calendars or the Book Calendar.

Description

of horse in first entry.

Name or description in subsequent entries.

Change of name.

20. A name may be claimed for a horse, either by Similar entry and publication as mentioned in the foregoing names. rules, or at any time by sending the pedigree to the Registry Office. When a name has been claimed for a horse in either of the above ways, any other horse for which the same name is afterwards claimed must be distinguished by the addition of the numerals II. or III. &c., and on the first time of entry with numerals, by the names of the sire and dam. If the same

Assumed names of owners.

Subscriptions are transferable.

Entry can be altered or withdrawn. Death of person who

has made a

name is proposed or claimed for two or more horses at the same time, the order of priority shall be determined by lot by Messrs Weatherby. Any person entering a horse in contravention of this rule shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 50%.

21. No assumed name of an owner shall be used in any subscription or entry unless such assumed name is duly registered, as follows:

(i) The person intending to use an assumed name must register it annually at the Registry Office. A registration continues effectual during the current year.

(ii) A person cannot have more than one assumed name registered at the same time, nor can he use his real name in any subscription or entry so long as he has a registered assumed name.

(iii) An assumed name may be changed at any time by registering a new assumed name.

(iv) A person cannot register as his assumed name a name which has been already registered by any other person, or the real name of any other person who runs horses in races in such other person's real name.

(v) On every registration or change of an assumed name there must be paid at the Registry Office, to the credit of the Jockey Club, a fee of twenty-five guineas.

(vi) Out of the fees received under this Rule, a percentage, to be fixed from time to time by the Jockey Club, shall be paid to the Bentinck Benevolent Fund, and the remainder shall be carried to the Racing Fund of the Jockey Club.

22. A person who subscribes to a sweepstakes has the right of transferring the right of entry under any one or more of his subscriptions to any other person or persons.

23. An entry to a race may, before the time of closing, be altered or withdrawn.

24. Subscriptions and all entries or rights of entry under them become void on the death of the subscriber. Entries (except entries made under another person's subscription subscription) become void on the death of the persons in whose names they are made.

or entry.

No alteration

of entry after closing.

If either party to a match die the match is off.

25. No alteration or addition shall be made in any entry after the time fixed for closing, except that when a horse has been duly described a name or number may be added.