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NO SPLIT; MERELY OBSERVING RULES. Ignorance of the Jockey Clubs rule-- of racing, combined wilh the failure of its racing editor to keep his eye on the game, caused a local daily newspaper to publish the following under a scare head yesterday afternoon: Ex-jockey Frank ONeill, who was partner with Fred Burlew in .New Orleans during all id the winter and which tirni lead all winning owners, may have concluded to break up Ihe partnership in so much as Athlete yesterday raced in the name of Fred Burlew alone instead of the linn name. Rule M of the rules of racing governing the New-York tracks says: ••Dnlrics shall lie in the name, or ilic a— limed name, of one person." Rule 59 re quires that all partner-hip-, contingencies, leases and mher arrangements iiiim he registered with the Jockey club btforc I bene will !«■ permitted to start. Tbeae regfastraUoaa arc regularly reported iu the Racing Calendar. The partnership arrange nicnt between Rurlew A; ONeill, together with the names of the horses owned by them has been reported in the Calendar, with the slatcmcnt lhal the specified bene* are to run iu the name of 1 . Burlew. The same was the Caae last year. In the weal there is no rule reipiiring that batata shall run in the name of one person.
