7. If a bet is made on one of the horses that runs a dead heat against a beaten horse, and the owners agree to divide, he who backed the horse that ran the dead heat wins half his bet. If odds are laid on one horse against another 1, 2, 3, and they run a dead heat for either place, the money betted must be put together and equally divided.
8. The person who lays the odds has the right to choose a horse or the field; when a person has chosen a horse, the field is what starts against him. If odds are laid without mentioning the horse before the race is over, the bet must be determined by the state of the odds at the time of making it.
9. Bets made after a race that the winner will be disqualified, stand, even if no objection be made.
10. Any bet made from signal or indication when the race has been determined shall be considered fraudulent and void.
11. All bets on matches and private sweepstakes depending between any two horses shall be void if those horses subsequently become the property of the same person, or of his avowed confederate.
12. Double event bets are determined when the first is lost.
13. Bets made on horses winning any number of races within the year shall be understood to mean between the 1st of January and the 31st of December.
14. Money given to have a bet laid shall not be returned, though the race be not run.
15. Confirmed bets cannot be declared off except by mutual consent, but on any allegation of fraud or corrupt practice, the Committee will investigate the case and may declare the bet void. Either of the bettors may demand stakes to be made on proving to the satisfaction of the Committee that he has just cause for doing so. If ordered, the bets must be covered or sufficient security offered, and a person refusing to cover shall be expelled the Subscription Room at Newmarket and at Tattersall’s.
16. The Committee will not necessarily enforce the settlement of a compromised account. Before giving a decision they may require the books of the debtor and a statement of his accounts to be submitted to them; but they have authority, in all such cases, to order the account to be settled if they think a reasonable offer is made.