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AMENDMENTS TO JOCKEY CLUB RULES Proposed Change Provides Anyone Can Claim Horse Out of Selling Race Overnight Races Affected. New York, December IS. One of a number of proposed amendments to the rules of racing of the Jockey Club, provides that anyone may claim a -beaten horse put of a selling , race As the rule, Which became part of the -new cort? a year ngor stood, a beaten horse might be claimed only by the owner of a starter in the race, though anyone might bid on the winner. The proposed amendment omits the sentence, "beaten horses may be claimed only by owners of starters in the race for their entered selling price, plus the value of the race to the winner .and as much more in addition as they may wish to bid." As amended it reads: "If the conditions of the selling race permits any horse to be claimed before the race, he may so bo claimed by anyone for his entered price, plus the value of the race to the winner and as much more as the elaimer wishes to bid, and any horse so claimed shall be ineligible to start in the race; intended starters in a race when horses are liable to be claimed before the race, shall be in the paddock forty-five minutes before the time fixed for the race and may be claimed from that time up to thirty minutes before the time of starting, when the right to claim before the race expires. Any horse not being in the paddock and being reported to the paddock judge as being present, shall be ineligible to start." The rule further provides that if it is the conditions of a selling race that the winner shall be sold at auction, the sale shall take place immediately after the race, the surplus bid on a horse either claimed, or sold at auction, shall go to the association, to be added to the overnight events of the second day following the sale. When the conditions of the selling race permits horses to be claimed before the race, they may, if the conditions so state, be exempted from liability to claim after the race. THREE DAYS TO SECURE ENTRIES. Another of the changes introduced by F. 11. Hitchcock and seconded by II. K. Knapp and Major E. B. Cassatt, is the time for closing of overnight races. Heretofore these conld close two days before the running of the race. The racing secretary, if the proposed amendment is adopted, will have three days in which to secure entries. The substitute amendment reads: "An overnight race is one for which the entries close seventy-two hours exclusive of Sundays or less, before the time set for the first race of the day on which such race is to be run." An important amendment is also proposed to the rule governing jockeys during their apprenticeship. As amended, the rule reads: "All boys who, while under age, have of their own free will, and with the consent of their parents or guardian, bound themselves to an owner or a trainer, for a term of not less than three years by a written instrument, a copy of which lias been lodged with the Jockey Club, are permitted during their apprenticeship to claim a five-pound allowance in all selling races, and three pounds allowance in all overnight handicaps, provided no horse carries less than 84 pounds. They will be entitled to this allowance until they have ridden forty winners in any country." An amendment proposed by F. 11. Hitchcock provides that the time fixed for each race shall be printed on the program. If adopted, this rule will do away with the dial on the infield announcing the time of the races.
