63. If two or more persons equally entitled wish to claim, they shall draw lots for the priority. Extra Weight and Allowances. 64. When it is a condition of any race that horses shall carry extra weight for winning a certain number of prizes during the year, or be allowed weight for having been beaten a certain number of times during the year, such winnings and losings shall date from the the 1st of January preceding, shall extend to the time of starting, unless otherwise specified, and shall apply to all established races in any country. 65. Extra weights and allowances are not accumu- Not accumu. ative, unless so specified in the conditions. 66. Horses do not carry extra weight for winning a match, and are not entitled to allowance for having been beaten in a match. The winner of a private handicap race shall be exempted from the penalty of carrying extra weights in all public handicaps, the terms of which impose on winners of handicaps certain penalties for winning after a specified date. NOTE-By a private handicap is meant one in which the weights are agreed upon among the parties to it, and which has not been publicly advertised previous to the engagement being made. Winners of hurdle races are not considered winners in flat racing. 67. A horse walking over or receiving forfeit, except for a match, is deemed a winner. 68. In estimating the value of any prize no deduction shall be made, except of the winner's own stake and of any sum or sums required by the conditions to be paid out of the stakes to the owners of any other horse or horses in the race-the entrance for a plate not to be deducted. And every prize, not in specie, shall be estimated at its advertised value in sovereigns, and if such value is not designated it shall be taken at the cost price. The winner of the Queen's Vase at Ascot is exempt from any penalty for such winning, unless this prize is specially mentioned in the conditions of the race. lative. Do not apply to matches, hurdle races, or private handicaps. Value of prizes, how calculated. Examination of mouth. When com Objections to Qualification. 69. When the age or qualification of a horse is objected to, either before or after running for any race, the Stewards, or those whom they may appoint, shall have power to order an examination of the horse's mouth by competent persons, and to call for all such evidence as they may require, and their decision shall be final, unless they shall sanction the removal of the question in dispute into a Court of Law. Any person requiring a horse's mouth to be examined must pay the expense of such examination, unless the horse is proved to be of the wrong age, in which case such expense shall be paid by the owner of the said horse. 70. All complaints of foul riding, or of horses not plaints must running the proper Course, or of any other irregularities be made. occurring in the race, must be made either by the owner, jockey, or groom of the horse, to one of the Stewards, to the Judge of the race, to the Clerk of the Course, or the Clerk of the Scales, within a quarter of an hour after the race. made. As it is expedient that there should be a statute of limitations with respect to the time of lodging objections against winning horses, no complaints can be entertained after the conclusion of the Race Meeting, save and except charges of fraudulent entry or of running horses under a false description, which may be investigated at any period within one year from the date of the offence. 71. When the qualification of any horse is objected Objections to qualification to by ten o'clock in the morning of the day of starting, when to be the owner must produce a certificate, or other proper document, to the Steward or Clerk of the Course, or to the Keeper of the Match-book if the case happen at Newmarket, before the race is run, to prove the qualification of the horse; and if he shall start his horse without so doing, the prize shall be withheld for a period to be fixed upon by the Stewards, at the expiration of which time, if the qualification be not proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards, he shall not be entitled to the prize, though his horse shall have come in first, but it shall be given to the owner of the second horse. When the qualification of a horse is objected to after that time, the person making the objection must prove the disqualification. 72. If it can be proved against any person that he has offered money before or after a race to any Judge, Starter, or Handicapper, or promised any part of the stake or prize, or any share or part of a bet, he shall be warned off the Course at Newmarket, and other places where these Rules are in force; and any Judge, Starter, or Handicapper who shall, before or after a race, demand or receive money of any person, shall be warned off the Course at Newmarket, and other places where these Rules are in force. 73. The Judge and the Starter cannot employ substitutes without the consent of the Stewards, or their substitutes. A contested race cannot be decided if the Judge have vacated his box, unless a Steward, or an official person duly authorised, occupy it. A stranger cannot start the horses without the consent of the Stewards, or their substitutes; in the event of a violation of this rule, the heat is nullified and the race must be run over again without going to the scales. 74. Neither the programme nor the result of any flat race meeting in Great Britain shall be published in the Official Racing Calendar, unless the said meeting is advertised to be subject to the established rules of racing as settled by the Jockey Club. Any horse running for a flat race on any course where the programme is not previously published in the Official Calendar shall be disqualified from entering or running at any meeting where the established rules of racing are in force. Presents to er, or Handi- allowed. Mode of 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 annual elec- continued in their office till the next annual financial tion. 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. In case of death or resignation. Substitute for absent Stewards. TheStewards have power to appoint officers: 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. 4. The three Stewards shall have the power of appointing all the public officers and the servants of the Club; the Keeper of the Match-book to receive the stakes and collect the entrance-money, 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. 6. The Stewards have full power to make such regulations as they may think proper in regard to the Course and Exercising-ground. 7. The Stewards of the Jockey Club have the power, in cases of urgent necessity, of putting off the races from day to day until a Sunday intervene. 8. 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. may decide cases refer red to them from other places: 9. 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. 10. The Jockey Club and the Stewards thereof take not to decide no cognizance of any disputes or claims with respect bettingcases: to bets. 11. 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. 12. If a member of the Jockey Club shall impugn or object to any act or decision of the Stewards, he shall give notice of it in writing to the Keeper of the Match-book, who will immediately request the Stewards to fix an early day to assemble the members for the purpose of hearing the objection. maywarn off the Course: |