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.

67. All complaints of foul riding, or of horses not running the proper Course, or of any other irregularities 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.

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.

68. When the qualification of any horse is objected to by ten o'clock in the morning of the day of starting, 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

When combe made.

plaints must

Objections to

qualification

when to be

made.

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.

RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

JOCKEY CLUB.

Respecting the Stewards.

nual election.

1. The three Stewards of the Jockey Club Mode of anshall be continued in their office till the next annual financial 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.

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 meets their approval, the said member shall remain in office until the expiration of his predecessor's time.

In case of resignation.

death or

Substitute

for absent Stewards.

The Stewards

have power

officers:

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 to appoint 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.

to fix time of starting :

to manage the Course

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.

in

6. The Stewards have full power to make and Exercise such regulations as they may think proper regard to the Course and Exercising-ground.

ground:

to postpone

races:

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 intervenes.

putes at

8. All disputes relating to racing at New- to settle dismarket shall be determined by the three Newmarket: 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 desires to have a shorthand 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.

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 horseracing, and be sent by the Stewards of the Meeting where the matter in question occurred.

may decide

cases referred

to them from

other places:

betting cases:

10. The Jockey Club and the Stewards not to decide thereof take no cognizance of any disputes or claims with respect to bets.

the Course:

11. The Stewards have a discretionary may warn off 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