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RACING LAW AND OUTLAWS. The American Turf Congress and Jockey Club laws bearing on outlaw racing, as to geographical lines, are not generally understood and are carelessly regarded. Rulings as to participants in outlaw racing have naturally stimulated the misunderstanding. Those ruling? have been those of interest, in most cases. The laws" and the lines of geography as embraced within the laws are given horewith or purposes of instruction. VIE. Any owner or trainer running horses, any jockey riding the same at any unrecognized meeting shall be disqualified for all races to which these rules apply. Such horses and all others under the control of such owner or trainer shall also be disqualified. Any person acting in any official capacity may also bo disqualified. By-law No. 6 of the American Turf Congress displays the matter in a geographical way. It says : The Congress shall not recognize, or its members permit any racing in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and north of latitude 35 degrees during the months of January, February or December of any year: nor shall any racing by electric or other artificial light be recognized or permitted anywhere or at any time of the year. And no person, association or corporation that anywhere gives any racing or race meeting shall permit any pools to be sold or books and bets to be made on any races, except on the races run and decided over the track within the enclosure of the grounds where the pools are sold or the books and bets are made; and no foreign book or betting shed shall be operated on or adjacent to any such grounds, either in the interest of the owners or lessees of such grounds, or of any other person whomsoever. Every person, association or corporation, giving, promoting or participating in any of the racing, or doing any of the acts herein prohibited, shall be outlawed from the tracks of ,the members of the Congress, as shall also be every owner, trainer, jockey, official, bookmaker, poolseller and horse, that shall participate in such prohibited racing or acts, as well as every horse that is owned, trained, or under the control of any of the herein above mentioned persons: and every racetrack upon which such prohibited racing is given or acts done, shall also be outlawed as well as every person or horse that shall thereafter participate in any racing upon the same. And if any association not a member of this Congress shall knowingly permit any of the persons or horses so outlawed to participate in racing on its course, then all other persons with knowledge thereof, who shall thereafter participate in its racing, shall likewise bo outlawed, as shall also bo their horses. Any member of the Congress knowingly failing to enforce the provisions of this article, shall be expelled. The Rocky Mountain line of division of east and west is most indefinite. As defined by maps it probably runs from the northern center of Idaho and south in a slant through Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico to a point on the Texas-Mexico line at El Paso. This lino needs to be more definitely drawn. The 35th latitudinal partition of the northern and southern territory is definite and certain. The Jockey Club laws bearing on the subject from "Rules of Racing of 1898" issued by the Jockey Club are as follows : PAET I. 1. A recognized meeting is : I. A meeting held by the Coney Island Jockey Club, the Brooklyn Jockey Club, the New York Jockey Club and the Westchester Racing Association. II. A meeting held under a license granted by the Jockey Club, or one held in the United States or Canada, under the sanction of any turf authority whose jurisdiction over racing of any nature is recognized by the Jockey Club and such recognized associations and which also gives effect to sentences imposed by these authorities upon persons guilty of fraudulent practices on the turf. III. A meeting held in the United Kingdom under the auspices of the English Jockey Club and all others having a reciprocal agreement with it. IV. A meeting held in any foreign country other than tho United Kingdom and Canada undor the sanction of any turf authority giving effect to sentences imposed by tho stewards of tho Jockey Club upon persons guilty of fraudulent practices on tho turf, and which enforces the forfeit list of the Jockey Club. part nr. VI. If a horse run at any unrecognized meeting he is disqualified for all races to which these rules apply. j
