Copies of Notice of Time of making Stakes. Discount. Respecting Payments of Stakes, Forfeits, &c. 49. Copies of all races to be run, and notices of all stakes to be made, and the days and hours of entering, are to be put over both Chimney-pieces in the Coffee-room on Monday evening before each Meeting, and to continue there each day of the Meeting; and no other notice shall be insisted on. 50. All stakes shall be made with the Keeper of the Match Book, at the Office, Kildare, at or before Twelve o'clock on the morning of running; and any person being liable to a forfeit or forfeits in any race in which he shall have a horse to run shall be obliged to pay all such forfeit or forfeits at the same time (unless he shall have previously obtained the consent of the parties concerned to dispense with his so doing); and in default of so doing, he shall have no claim to the race, although his horse shall have started and come in first, but he shall be liable to forfeit in like manner as if he had not produced his horse at the post. Payment of 51. All forfeits are to be paid before Twelve Forfeits & o'clock at night of the day such forfeits shall have been determined; but any person paying his engagements before Nine o'clock in the evening preceding their determination, shall be entitled to a drawback of Five per cent. on such payment. Defaulters to be warned off. 52. 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 Curragh. Alteration of Meetings. 53. That in future the Curragh Meetings will Rules relacommence on Tuesday instead of Monday, and tive to that all Cups and Whips made to be run for on Meetings. Monday shall be transferred to Tuesday; and that for all racing purposes Tuesday shall be considered as the First Day of the Meeting. 54. That for the future the April, September, and October Meetings shall commence on Tuesday and end on Thursday of each Meeting. (October, 1859.) 55. That, in consequence of great inconvenience arising from the Curragh October Meeting interfering with the Second October Meeting at Newmarket, the Stewards of the Turf Club (with the consent of the proper authorities) have fixed that the October Meeting at the Curragh shall, for the future, take place on the Tuesday after the Second October Meeting at Newmarket. (April Meeting, 1859.) 56. The following will be the arrangements for the Curragh Meetings for 1869 :-April Meeting to commence on Tuesday, April 20th. June Meeting, Tuesday, June 22nd. Royal September Meeting, Tuesday, September 7th. October Meeting, Tuesday, October 19th. 57. No person except the Stewards, the Keeper of the Match Book, or those whom they may appoint to keep the Course, are to ride inside the rails. RESPECTING BETS. 1. When the horses which are brought out to run for any Plate, Subscription, or Sweepstakes are called upon by the person appointed to start them to take their places for that purpose, all bets respecting such horses shall be considered as play or pay bets. 2. Horses that forfeit are the beaten horses where it is play or pay. 3. Either of the Bettors may demand stakes to be made, and, on refusal, declare the bet void. 4. If the party is absent on the day of running, a public declaration of the bet may be made on the Course, and a demand whether any person will make stakes for the absent party. If no person consents to it, the bet may be declared void. 5. Bets agreed to pay or receive in town, or at any other particular place, cannot be declared off on the Course. 6. If a Match is made for any particular day in any Meeting, and the parties agree to change the day, all bets must stand; but if run in a different Meeting, the bets made before the alteration are void. 7. The person that lays the odds has a right to choose his horse or the field. 8. When a person has chosen his horse, the field is what starts against him; but there is no field unless two horses start. 9. If odds are laid, without mentioning the horse before it is over, it must be determined as the bets were at the time of making it. 10. Bets made in running are not determined till the Plate is won, if that heat be not mentioned at the time of betting. 11. A bet made after the heat is over, if the horse betted on does not start, is no bet. 1 12. Bets are determined, though the horse does not start, when the words absolutely run, or pay or play, are made use of in betting. EXAMPLE-I bet that Robinson's bh Sampson absolutely wins the Queen's Plate at the Curragh next Meeting. The bet is lost though he does not start, and won though he goes over the Course by himself. 13. A confirmed bet cannot be off without mutual consent, unless under the provisions of Rules 3 and 4. 14. Bets made on horses winning any number of Plates that year remain in force till the first day of January. 15. Money given to have a bet laid not returned if not run. 16. To propose a bet, the person that replies "done" to it makes a confirmed bet. lix lx DoubleBets Bets made tion. 17. Bets are void on the decease of either party before determined. 18. All bets between two horses are annulled should those two horses become the property of one and the same person subsequently to the bets being made. 19. All double bets shall be considered p.p. bets. 20. All bets made by signal or indication on a from Signal race, after such race shall have been determined or indica- at the Post, are void, being fraudulent and illegal; and should any servant employed by a Member of the Turf Club or Coffee-room be in any way engaged in making any such bet, he shall be dismissed his service, and not again be employed by any Member. October 17th, 1866. CHARLEMONT. DROGHEDA. |