17. In entering a horse for the first time he shall be de- Description scribed by stating his colour (when possible), and whether he of horse in is a horse, mare or gelding, and the Calendar or Stud-book first entry. 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 Name or derepeated in every entry of the horse until an entry of him by scription in description, with a proposed name, has been published in the subsequent "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.

entries.

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

names.

20. A name may be claimed for a horse, either by entry Similar and publication as mentioned in the foregoing 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 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 507.

21. No assumed name of an owner shall be used in any Assumed subscription or entry unless such assumed name is duly names of 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.

owners.

(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. A subscription cannot be withdrawn, but an entry of a horse under a subscription may, before the time of closing, be altered by substituting another horse.

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) become void on the death of the persons in whose names they are made.

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.

In the event of a horse being entered for a race with the wrong age, or an incorrect or imperfect description according to Rule 17, it may be corrected on the payment of a fine of 57. for each entry, provided it be proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards that it was accidental, and provided also that the correction is made, and the fine paid, before the Calendar following that in which the wrong entry appears.

This Rule will allow of an entry being omitted, on the payment of a fine, from a race for which it was not qualified at the time of entry, e.g. a colt for a filly stakes, but will not admit of any correction amounting to the substitution of another animal, which would be of the nature of a post entry.

The fines under this Rule to go to the winner, unless the winner be the person fined, when it shall go to the second horse.

26. A horse cannot be entered in the real or assumed name of any person as his owner unless that person's interest or property in the horse is at least equal to that of any other one

person.

PART V.-Stakes and Forfeits.

27. A person entering a horse for a race thereby becomes liable for the entrance money and stake or forfeit.

A subscriber to a sweepstakes is liable for the stake or forfeit; but if he transfer the right of entry to any other person he is liable only in case of default by the transferee, and in that case he may recover it from the transferee.

A person taking an entry under another person's subscription, where forfeit must be declared by a particular time, if he do not declare forfeit by that time, shall be considered to have taken the engagement upon himself, and the original subscriber shall cease to be liable.

28. Entrance money, stakes and forfeits must be paid in Payment and cash (if required) to the clerk of the course or authorized application stakeholder. If any clerk of the course allow a horse to start of stakes and in a race without his stake for that race having been paid, such clerk shall be liable for it himself.

Stakes and forfeits in a race belong to the winner, except as otherwise declared in the conditions, and the stakeholder shall render an account to him, or his agent, and pay over all stakes and added money within fifteen days of the conclusion of the meeting. If the race be never run or be void, they shall be returned.

Entrance money shall be paid into the race-fund of the meeting, except in the case of a sweepstakes where no money or less than 50l. is given from the race-fund or other public source, in which case the entrance money shall go to the winner, or to some other horse or horses in the race.

forfeits.

Stake, arrears, and jockey's paid before

fee must be

29. A horse shall not start for a race unless there have been duly paid before weighing (1) any stake, entrance money or fee payable in respect of that race; (2) all arrears due from any person for such horse, or due for the same or any other horse starting. from any person by whom such horse is wholly or partly owned, or in whose name or under whose subscription he is entered, and (3) the jockey's fee under Rule 53.

In this rule" arrears" includes any sums payable for fines, fees, entrance money, stakes, or forfeits in respect of any race at the same or any other meeting in the United Kingdom, and any sum in respect of which a person has been declared a defaulter: Provided that arrears of forfeits in respect of a meeting at any other place than the place at which the race is run shall not be included, unless notice of such forfeits being overdue has been published in the Unpaid Forfeit List or Steeple Chase Forfeit List, or delivered in writing, signed by the party claiming the arrears, to the clerk of the course or stakeholder or to the person indebted, before ten in the evening preceding the race.

This rule shall apply to arrears at the Curragh and other recognized meetings in Ireland, or at any steeplechase meeting in the United Kingdom held under the Grand National Steeplechase Rules, or Irish National Hunt Steeple Chase Rules.

Unpaid forfeit list.

The Unpaid Forfeit List.

30. (i.) An Unpaid Forfeit List shall be kept at the registry office, and shall be published in the Sheet Calendar after the Newmarket July Meeting and again at the conclusion of the Racing season in every year. It shall include all due and unpaid entrances, stakes, fines, and forfeits which have been notified as hereinafter mentioned, and shall state the real name or names, and also the assumed name or names (if any), of the persons from whom, and the horses (if any) in respect of which the same are due. Entrances, stakes, fines and forfeits which have been so published must be paid directly into the registry office, and until so paid they shall not be removed from the list.

(ii.) Any person to whom any entrance, stake, fine, fee, or forfeit is payable (whether as an official or otherwise) may (or shall, if he be an official, within a month of the publication of the next Forfeit List) notify the same in writing, signed by him, to the registry office, or to the clerk of the course, and every such statement received by the clerk of the course shall be forthwith transmitted by him to the registry office.

(iii.) So long as the name of a person is in the Unpaid Forfeit List he cannot subscribe to any sweepstakes, and no horse can be entered by him or under his subscription for any race, whether acting as an agent or otherwise, and no horse which has been entered by him, or in his name, or under his subscription, or of which he is wholly or partly the owner, or which, after his default has been twice published in the Racing Calendar, shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Stewards to be under his care, training, management, or superintendence, shall be qualified to run for any race; and so long as any horse is in the Unpaid Forfeit List, such horse shall not be entered or run for any race.

(iv.) A corrected alphabetical Index of the horses and owners in the last Forfeit List and Irish Forfeit List shall be published in the first Calendar of every month during the racing season. Such monthly list shall commence not less than three years before the time at which it is published, and shall be carried down to and include the latest Forfeit List which has been published in the Sheet Calendar as above mentioned.

The Clerk of the Course at every meeting shall put up in his office during such meeting two copies of the last Monthly List for the time being.

(v.) If any horse which, or the owner of which, is in any Forfeit List be allowed to start the Clerk of the Course shall be fined 107.

(vi.) If a horse which, or the owner of which, is in any Forfeit List be entered for any race, the owner of such horse shall be fined 507.

PART VI.-The Race.

Weighing out and starting.

31. (i.) A horse shall not be qualified to run in a race Weighing out unless his name has been notified as a starter to the clerk of and starting. the scales on the day of the race, and his number exhibited one quarter of an hour before the time appointed for the race. If any alteration be made in a number after it has been exhibited, the stewards may call upon the owner, trainer, or jockey, for an explanation, and if no satisfactory explanation be given, the owner, trainer, or jockey, may be fined, and the horse shall not be allowed to start nor the jockey to ride again until the fine is paid.

(ii.) Every jockey who is to ride in the race shall weigh at the appointed or usual place, unless especially excused by the Stewards.

(iii.) No person shall, without special leave from the Stewards in writing, be admitted to the weighing-room except the owner, trainer and jockey, or other person having the care of a horse engaged in the race.

(iv.) If a jockey intend to carry overweight exceeding by more than two pounds the weight at which his horse is to run, he must declare the amount of such overweight. The declaration must be made to the clerk of the scales not later than twenty minutes before the time appointed for the start; and the clerk shall exhibit the amount of such extra weight with the number of the horse.

(v.) If a horse carry more than two pounds overweight, which has not been duly declared, he is disqualified, unless the Stewards be satisfied that such excess of weight has been caused by wet weather.

(vi.) Any overweight exceeding two pounds which has been carried, whether it has been duly declared or the horse has been disqualified, shall be published in the "Racing Calendar," and the clerk of the scales shall send a return thereof to the Registry Office.

(vii.) Every trainer shall have his horse at the post, ready to start, at the time appointed by the Stewards; and every jockey is to be there, ready to start at the same time. Every trainer or jockey making default herein shall be fined.

(viii.) The horses must be started by the official starter or his authorized deputy or substitute. No horse when once under the starter's hands shall be allowed to go back and correct his weight, unless some accident has occurred to him.

(ix.) The starter may give all such orders and take all such measures as are necessary for securing a fair start; and in particular he may, if he think it necessary, order the horses to be drawn up in a line as far behind the starting post as he thinks necessary.