The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-09-03
RE CT o RS,
Rules and Regulations,
No. l-AAruRE OF RuLxs,

In cases of unfavorable weather, or
Their unavoidable causes, all purses,
patches, or sweepstakes announced E
o come off, to which the proprictors t,
they shall have the power
o postpone to a future day upon :
irving notice of the same.
10. 3.-ouALtrlcArfoNs OF HORSES g
sTARTINu.
Horses trained in the same stable,
II owned in part by the same person
within three days, shall not start tor
! purse, and horses SO entered shall
forfeit their entrance.
Horses deemed by the judges not
fair trotting horses shall be ruled Off
previous to or distanced at the ter
mination of the first heat.
NO. 4-DlsTANCEs.
A distance for mile heats best three |
in FIVE, shall be one hundred yards.
For ono mile heats, eighty yards; and
for every additional mile. an adds
tional eighty yards.
NO. 5-TIMI niE:FMNEEN HEATS.
The TINE bet ween heats shall be:
for one mile, twenty minutes; and for
every additional mile an additional
| five minutes.
NO. 6-powER OF JUDGES.
There shall be chosen by the exc
cutive committee three Judges to-
preside over race FOR premiums,
and by them an additional Judge
shall be appointed for the distance
stand. They may also, during, or
previous to race, appoint inspectors
at any part of the course, whose re-
ports and theirs alone shall be receiv-
4 ed Of any foul riding or driving.
NO. 7,-D1rFERENcE OF OPINION BE.
TWEEN THE JUDGES.
Should difference of opinion exist
between the Judges in the starting
. stand on any question, majority
shall govern.
NO. 8-JUDGEs DUTIES.
n The Judges shall order the horses
!, j saddled, or harnessed, Eve minutes
] previous to the time appointed TO
Il starting. Any rider, or driver, caus
ing undue detention after being callet
up by making false starts or other
wise, the judges may give the wor'
i to start without reference to the sit
luation-of the horse 50 offending. i'm
!. loss convinced such deia Is unsvSid
able On the part of the rider or driy
or, in which case not more than thil
t, tv minutes shall be consumed in ut
n tempting to start, and at the expir,
q ton of that time the horse or horse
3 reads to start shall receive tho wor.
= NO. 9--srARrsSu HORSES.
: The pole shallsbo drawn for by th
) Judges, the horse WINNIE y hes
y shall for the s nr..sa,ng heats be or
, somlng out. On the last streto,
. horse shall retain thas-aIDING OR
!, lected. Any, -h-H0.
DO dista>~r driver committing any
ll-which the judges may deem foul
riding or driving, shall be distanced.
NO. 1I.-HoRsEs BRRAk1Na.
Should any horse break from his
trot, or pace, it shall be the duty Of
the rider, or driver, to pull his horse
to trot or pace Immediately, and in
case OF the rider or driver refusing
TO DO so the penalty shall DO that the
next horse shall have the heat. Ifl
the rider, or driver, should comply
with the above, and he should gam
by such break twice the distance 80
gained shall be taken away on the
coming out. A horse breaking on
the score shall not lose the heat bv
80 doing.
NO. 1.-THE WINNING HORSE.
A horse must win the required ;
number of heats to be entitled to the
premium unless be distances all other
lorses. A distanced horse in a dead
lcat shall not start again.
NO. l3--RELATIvE TO HEATS.
A horse not winning one heat in
hree shall not start for fourth heat
Mess such horse shall have made 4
cad heat. When dead heat ia
made between two horses that II A
lther had won the heat the race
'ould have been decided, they two
My shall start again. In races best n
hree in five horse shall win one !.
eat in five to be allowed to start for
10 sixth heat, unless such horse shall
ave made a dead heat.
Such horses rs are prevented from
arting by this rule shall be consid.
ed drawn and not distanced. re
NO. l4.--oN HEATS AND DISTANCES.
II two horses each win q heat and
'lther are distanced in the race. the
g coming out ahead on the last heat
De considered the best. The Same tv
ie to DC applied TO horses neither
ming Il heat nor distanccd, FL
Q horse wins heat he is better
an one that does not, providing he
es not get distanced IN the race. til,
IN the other if not distanced shall I'll
best. A horse that wins heat sh.
is distanced is better than ono
winning heat and being dis. NJ,
ICED in the same heat. A horse
tanced in the second heat is better ira
q one distanced in the first heat.
NO. 15-noRsEs DRAWN
5etore the conclusion of q race
u be considered distanccd. YET
70 l6.-lN CASE OF ACCIDENTS. 3 Z
q case OF accidents but five min. Oct
shall be allowed over the timo Pan
ded in rule 5, unless the Judges har
more time necessary. New
NO. H-JUDGEs STAND. Mar
erson shall be allowed in the sin.
,tand but the Judges report. New
members at the time of trot-
NO. lie. ~
y person competing for pre- ,.se !
v Judge for . co.ss " o'Jece plan
: - N''1'0' draw
rYrm Cucmr- "Ho
: - n: n ofha
Ticket, 25 cts, admits one per. mon
&c. leadi
Q Ticket, 70 cts, will admit all we s
les not drawn by more than two leads