When HORSES are matched at CATCH WEIGHTS, each party may appoint any person to ride, without weighing either before or after the race.
Give and take Plates are for horses of fourteen hands high, to carry a stated weight, above or below which more or less is to be carried, allowing seven pounds for every inch.
A Whim Plate is weight for age, and weight for inches.
A Post Match is made by inferring the age of the horses in the articles; and the parties possess the privilege of bringing any horse of that age to the post, without making any previous declaration whatever, of name, colour, or qualifications.
A Handicap Match. See Handicap.
Riders must ride their horses (after running) to the SCALES to weigh; and he that dismounts without so doing, or wants weight when weighed, is deemed a distanced horse.
The HORSE, whose HEAD first reaches the ending POST wins the HEAT.
If a RIDER falls from his horse, and the horse is rode in by a person who is sufficient weight, he will take place the same as if it had not happened, provided he goes back to the place where the other fell.
Horse's plates (or shoes) not allowed in the weight.
Horses not entitled to start, without producing a proper certificate of their age, if required, at the time specified in the articles, except where AGED horses are included; and in that case, a junior horse may enter without a certificate, provided he carries the same weight as the aged.