The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-19
The new RACING RULES
IMPORTANT CHANGES WILL BE SUB
MITTED NEXT MONTH.
Proposed Changes VIII Affect All
Rorscmen-"Ringer" Rule n Fea-
~ture-Notes of the Horses.

The twenty-frst biennial congress of the
National Trotting Association will be held
at New York on Feb. 10. At the meeting
many important changes in the rules OF
the association affecting horsemen will be
submitted for adoption. Among the many
changes agreed upon by prominent officials
of both the National and American associa-
ions at a recent sitting the following are
of interest:
Rule 2. Section /. All entries must be
made in writing by the owner or author
lied person, not agent, as heretofore.
Rule 2, Section Z. Will compel all secre-
taries of members tracks TO publish the
list of entries and mail each nomlnator
and the secretary of the y. I. \. a copy
within seventy-two hours after closing OF
entries; also, to notify each norninator II
a class does not fill.
Rule 5, Section 8. Calls for nominators
to state at which gait a horse will per-
form in mixed races.
Rule 6, Section 4. Has been specially
prepared for the detection of ringers, and
provides for changing names of horses.
Rule II. Section /. Referring TO death OF
horse or nOminatOr prior TO a race; all OBJ
legation for entrance fees becomes void,
except where proprietorship is in more than
one person.
Rule 16, Section 1. Provides for the dis
qualification of owners, riders, drivers or
horses, who enter or start horses at meet
ings conducted by persons under penalty
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ting Associations.
Rule II. Section 1. Allows an owner or
nominator TO draw from race by a tele-
graphic notice, the other portion of the
rule being practically the same as now
in use.
Rule 10, Section 1. Is changed to read:
y heat shall be called after sunset"
therefore, making it impossible for the
judges to decide when it is too dark to
see the gait of the horses.
Rule "A, Section ,. Adds the timer" 10
the rule preventing any person from Off
ciating in the stand who has a bet on the
race, interested in "a horse or is under
penalty of suspension or expulsion.
Rule %, Section l. Which defines the au-
thority of judges of races, is amended TO
read that an appeal may be taken upon
their application or construction of the
rules. and upon matters of fact where fraud
is charged. The rule now in use gives the
judges absolute authority, without an ap-
peal.
Rule %. Section L. Notice will not be
given "A driver who has been delaying a
start. regardless of his position or gait.
Rule SO. Section ,. Will likely be changed
to allow three races to be on
the performance of one day.
Rule 81, Section 1. Cuts the distance from
eighty to seventy yards on mile tracks, ex-
Cept when eight or more horses start in a
heat: then the 100 yards is changed to
ninety yards.
Half-mile tracks will be permitted to
adopt the same distance if desired. but
must advertise the change in their pub
hshed conditions. No track will be allowed
to increase the distance. In any heat or
race distance may be waived by consent of
member and the starters.
Rule AZ, Section S. Prohibits judges from
officiating as official timers.
Rule A, Section .. Has a new section
| added for the benefit of amateur racing.
which reads: Records cannot be made or
bars incurred i'm trials of speed where
there is no poolselling. bookmaking or other
public betting on the event, no money
competed for. no entrance charged or col
lected from competing horses, no admis-
sion fee charged at the gate or grand stand
and no privileges of any kind sold