LIBRARY OF CONGRESS,

of

Chap... Copyright ie

¥

Shela-oteoeo 8
2a

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

PARKET,
THE HORSEMAN’S HAND-BOOK.

CONTAINING

A Carefully Prepared Synopsis of the
Rules and Regulations of the Amer-
ican Trotting Association,anda
Vocabulary of Technical
Terms of the Turf,

TOGETHER WITH
7
Diagrams of Kite and Regulation Tracks, Drawn

to a Scale, and Every Part Minutely
Described.

THE NAMES, SEX, COLOR AND RECORDS OF THE VERY FASTEST
AMERICAN HORSES.

BLANK SCORE CARDS FOR KEADY USE

And Rules for Marking and Reading Them Correctly.

ALSO FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING
The New Game of “ Parket,”

Or Speed Trials With Cards.

(SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.)

Published by PARKET COMPANY,

Grand Rapids, Mich. y / b iy <f P4

1892.

Riise according to Act of Congress, in the year It 92,
By EDWIN A. BURLINGAME,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Wash

INTRODUCTION.

eo The Horseman’s Hand-Book, con-
tains an exhaustive synopsis of the most
important rules and regulations of the Ameri-
can Trotting Association, brought down to date;
a vocabulary of the technical terms of the turf;
diagrams of both kite and regulation race
tracks, drawn to a scale, with full descriptions
of the name, purpose and distances of every
portion of the same, and the advantages
claimed for each. Also a dissertation upon
‘‘time’’ and ‘‘race’’ records, with rules for
settling all disputes arising in reference thereto.
It contains blank score cards for ready use
of horsemen, wherein they may keep and _ pre-
serve, in convenient form, the entire record of
all the races they attend during the season. It
contains, also, a specimen score card, properly
filled, with correct totals found, and describes
minutely how to mark, read and find the totals
of any race.
Few men, comparatively, who attend races,
know how to fill and read a score ecard cor-
rectly under the rules of trotting associations;

4

and but very few ladies know anything about
it. This book leaves no excuse for any person
being ignorant in that regard.

It also contains full instructions in playing
‘‘Parket,’’ the great equestrian game, com-
bining the fascination of cards with the ex-
citement of speed trials, which is intended not
only as a source of amusement, but of educa-
tion in all that pertains to trials of speed of
the best American horses. As a play, ‘‘ Par-
ket *’ is simple, and easy to learn, and, as an
educator, it is constantly impressing upon the
mind of the plaver the rules that govern, and
the technical terms used in speed trials of horses,
so that one who becomes accustomed to play
‘¢Parket’’? must, of necessity, become familiar
with the color, sex and fastest time of the best
American horses, which are used in the game.
In short, all who become familiar with this game
must and will become familiar with, and inter-
ested in, real speed trials and all that is con-
nected with the same, except the evils of pool
selling and gambling upon horses, all of which

is carefully excluded from this play.

To Horsemen and Their Friends.—It will be
seen at a glance, that, with an intelligent un-
derstanding of horses, races and rules of the
turf, by the great masses of the people, many
of whom do not now know the names and rel-

5
ative speed of any horses, the interest in, and
attendance at speed trials must be vastly
increased.

To Players of Cards.— You are aware that pro-
gressive euchre and pedro have afforded amuse-
ment only, having no educational features what-
ever. ‘¢Parket’’ is more simple and easily
learned than either of the above, affords greater
amusement, and is at the same time educating
the player upon a subject that is constantly
engaging the attention of the people.

To Wheelmen.—‘‘ Parket ”’ is as well adapted

to bicyclists with records as to horses.

RUSH PARK RACE TRACK, Independence, Ia.

SCALE 500 FEET TO'1 INCH.

fi
Rush Park Kite Track.

This is one of the fastest kite-shaped tracks in the world.
These tracks are intended to be one-third mile stretches and
one-third mile turn. It is claimed as-the fastest form of a
track because there is but one turn, and that a long, easy
one, rendering it nearer a straight mile than can be secured
by any other arrangement. It is also claimed that by this
construction every horse except the pole horse would trot a
shorter mile than on a regulation track. Assuming the sec-
ond position to be six feet from the pole, it is claimed that
the second horse on a regulation track trots thirty-seven and
seven-tenths (37.7) feet farther than the pole horse, and that
on the kite track he only trots twenty-two (22) feet farther,
saving a distance of fifteen and seven-tenths (15.7) feet; and
the same ratio to all outside positions.

The disadvantages are that only a one-mile heat can be
raced, with a great disadvantage to the spectators who sit
behind the horses as they go away, and nearly in front as
they come home, the only fair view of their relative positions
being when upon the turn at the extreme distance away,
and as they pass the wire. '

Fast races at Rush Park race track:

Aug. 24 to 31.—Allerton, t., 2:0914; Direct, p., 2:06;
Nancy Hanks, three heats in one day, 2:12, 2:1214, 2:12; ete.

Description of Track.

A, judges’ stand and starting point, is situated at the
point of intersection of the home and back stretches.

B, first distance stand, 300 feet from wire.

C, second distance stand, 450 feet from wire.

D, °4 pole, 3,960 feet from wire.

E, 1¢ pole, 2,640 feet fron wire.

F, 14 pole, 1,320 feet from wire.

G, G, timers’ stands, opposite judges’ stand.
H. H, grand stands, 50x300 feet; set 50 feet back from
track at G.

I, I, home stretch, 1,559.12 feet long.

J, turn, 2,161.77 feet long.

8

K, K2, back stretch, 1,559.12 feet long.

L, scoring stretch, 565 feet long.

M, grass plot.

N, inner field.

O, O, wire.

P to A is 689.5 feet long; Q to K2 is 557 feet long; Q to
I is 557 feet long; R to Ris 1,114 feet long; Q to E is 557
feet long: from A to E is 2,229 feet; from R to 1, or from R
to K2, 200 feet.

Track at I, Lis 75 feet wide; at K, 75 feet wide; at K2, 60
feet wide; at J, 60 feet wide: at L, 75 feet wide.

Dotted lines at S, sometimes used for working track.

9
COMSTOCK PARK, Grand Rapids, Mich.

SCALE 500 FEET TO 1 INCH.

As laid out by D & F. E. SKEELS, Regulation and Kite Track
Engineers, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This is the fastest regulation track in the world. Its fast-
est time, fifty-one days after it was completed, was made
by Nelson, September 18, 1891, exhibition trial; time, 2:10

10

flat, being the fastest time ever made by that horse, or any
other stallion, on a regulation track. The three fastest con-
secutive heats in a race ever trotted by stallions was at
Comstock Park, October 8, 1891, by Allerton; time, 2:14%<,
2:15, 2:1634.

The fastest four-heat race ever trotted by stallions was at
Comstock Park, October 8, 1891, by Nelson and Allerton.
Nelson won first heat—time, 2:13; Allerton second heat—
time, 2:141. Allerton took the two succeeding heats in 2:15
and 2:161¢, winning the race and purse of $10,000.

Description of Comstock Park Track.

A, judges’ stand and starting point, is situated in the in-
ner field and close to the pole fence.

B, first distance stand, situated in the inner field and close
to the pole fence, 300 feet from wire.

C, second distance stand, situated in the inner field and
close to the pole fence, 450 feet from wire.

D, % pole; distance, 4,620 feet from wire.

E, °¢ pole: distance, 3,960 feet from wire.

F, %& pole; distance, 3,300 feet from wire.

G, ‘s pole; distance, 2,640 feet from wire.

H, *s pole; distance, 1,980 feet from wire.

I, 44 pole; distance, 1,320 feet from wire.

J, 1g pole; distance, 660 feet from wire.

K, timers’ stand, situated opposite the judges’ stand.

L, wire stretched between the judges’ and timers’ stands.

M, M, home stretch, 1,520 feet long.

N, First turn, 1,320 feet long.

O, O, back stretch, 1,320 feet long.

P, last turn, 1,320 feet long.

Q, grand stand, 50x 300, sets 5u feet back at K from track.

%, inner field, the space included by the inner or pole
fence.

The mile is measured 3 feet from the pole fence.

Track at M, M, is 70 feet wide; at O, O, 45 feet wide; at P,
50 feet wide: at N, 60 feet wide.

N to P is 2,160.34 feet long; M to O is 840.34 feet long;
from P, at pole fence, to S, 420.17 feet; from N, at pole
fence, to S, 420.17.

11

SYNOPSIS OF RULES, ETC.,

Of American Trotting Association.

RULE 1. Mandate.

RULES 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, relate to entries and entrance
fees.

RvuLE 10. In all purses three or more entries are required,
and two to start, unless otherwise specified.

RULES 11, 12, treat of the eligibility of horses. A horse
gaining a bar or record of 2:2914 is and shall remain eligible
in a 2:30 class, or for horses that have never beaten 2:30, or
for horses with record no better than 2:30.

RULE 13. Requires an accurate description of each horse.

RuLE 14. The color.

RULE 15. Sex.

RULES 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Names of horses.

RULES 21, 22, 23, 24, treat of the identification of owner.
nominator, driver and horse.

RULE 25. Only one horse of the same owner, etc.. can
start in a race.

RULE 26. <A ‘walk over” for a purse is only entitled to
his entrance money and one-half received from the other
entries for said purse.

RULE 27. Makes all engagements void in case of death
of horse or owner. If one of two owners is alive the horse
is held.

RULE 28. Gives rules of forfeit in all match races.

RULE 29. In all matches made to come off over any of
the associate courses, the parties shall place the amount of
the natch in the hands of the stakeholder one day before
the event (omitting Sundays) is to come off, at such time and
place as the club, association or proprietor, upon application,
may determine, and the race shall then become ‘ play or
pay.”

RULE 30 is in regard to purse or money wrongfully
obtained.

RULES 31, 32, 33. Fraudulent entries.

RULES 34, 35. 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42. Regard to protests.

RULE 43. No horse drawn except by permission of
judges. )

RuLe 44. Persons having more than one horse in race
must elect which shall go.

RULE 45. Power of members to postpone races for bad
weather.

RuLEs 46, 47. Forbids trotting after dark.

RULE 48. Every horse starting for purse, sweepstake or
match, in any trotting or pacing race, shall carry, if to
wagon or sulky, 150 pounds, the saddle and whip only to be
weighed with the rider.

RULE 49. Weight, ete.

RuLE 50. Handicaps and miscellaneous weights.

12

Ruves 51 and 52. When riders and drivers are over-
weight. If drivers are overweighted for fraudulent purpose,
judges may substitute a driver of suitable weight. If a
horse has been prejudiced thereby, he shall not be atlowed
to start again, and bets on such horse may be declared off.

Rue 53. Length of whips.

Rue 54. None but judges and starter of the race in pro-
gress, the clerk of course or secretary, and their assistants,
shall be allowed on the judges’ stand during the pendency
of the heat, and it shall be deemed a dereliction of duty for
any member not to enforce this rule.

{ULE 55. President of horse associations shall choose or
authorize the selection of three judges and a starter, if de-
sired, for the day of the race, ete.

RuLE 56. States who are incompetent for judges.

RULE 57. Judges appoint distance and patrol judges and
timers, inflict fines and penalties, and may declare pools
and bets off, no appeal to be allowed from their decision in
that respect.

Rube 58. Distance and patrol judges. See technical
terms (distance stands).

Ruve 59. Patrol judges are on horseback and are sta-
tioned at or sent from point to point to report foul driving,
etc., to the judges.

RuLE 60. Judges shall be in stand fifteen minutes before
time for starting a race. and shall weigh the riders or
drivers, give position to horses, ete.

RuLE 61. The judges shall ring the bell, or give other
notice, ten minutes before race is to come off, and riders or
drivers must conform to the rule or be subject to a fine, or
be ruled off.

RULE 62. Judges will see that all weights are correct,
and await reports from distance and patrol judges before
awarding the heat.

RuLeE 63. Judges will not consider complaints of fouls
only from distance or patrol judges, or owner, or rider, or
driver, or some one authorized, ete.

RULE 64. If a horse has been ‘‘ pulled” to ‘‘throw” a
race, a reliable driver may be substituted; or, if the owner is
a party to the fraud, he may be fined, or he and his horse
suspended or expelled, and no such horse shall receive any
of the purse.

RuLE 65. In scoring, if ‘‘go”’ is not given at the tap of
the bell, or other signals given, all the horses turn and jog
back for a fresh start. (See technical terms. )

RuLE 66. After the first scoring, judges shall choose one
of the contending horses to score by. (See ‘‘secore horse,”
technical terms. )

RuLE 67. Sponging allowed but once in five scoring.

RuLEs 68, 69, 70. Minor matters.

RuLE 71. Having the pole (technical terms). When
horses make a dead heat, they take the same relative posi-
tion as at the finish of the dead heat.

13

RULE 72. In coming out on the home stretch the fore-
most horse or horses shall keep the position first selected, or
be liable to be ruled out; and the hindmost horse or horses,
when there is sufficient room to pass on the inside, or any-
where on the home-stretch, without interfering with others,
shall be allowed to do so, and any party interfering to pre-
vent him or them shall be ruled out.

RULES 73, 74. No horse attempting to pass another on
the home-stretch should at any time cross in front so
near as to shorten the other’s stride, nor swerve, nor ‘‘ carry
him out,” nor ‘* sit down ” in front of him, nor do any ‘‘ help-
ing” which shall impede another horse.

RULE 75. Such horse may be ruled out.

Rute 76. When a horse breaks, his driver shall immedi-
ately pull him to his gait. If he fails to comply, and his
horse comes out ahead, the heat will be given to the next
horse and he shall be set back of all unoffending horses ex-
cept those distanced or ruled out.

Rule 77. In addition to rule 76, the horse shall be set
back twice the distance gained by running, and subject to
other punishment for running.

RuLeE 78. Any horse repeatedly breaking, performing at
a mixed gait, or one different from that prescribed for the
race, shall be placed after all other horses in the heat not so
offending, distanced or ruled out; and where more than one
horse so offends, the judges shall place them with reference
to each other as they may desire.

Rule 79. ‘Vo assist in determining the matters contained
in Rules 76, 77 and 78, it shall be the duty of one of the
judges to call out during the progress of the race every break
made, designating, by colors or name, the horse making it,
and the character of the break, and a judge or assistant shall
at once note the fact in writing.

RuLE 80. A horse breaking at or near the score shall be
subject to no greater penalty than if he broke on any other
part of the track.

RuLE 81. In heats, one, two, three or four miles, a horse
not winning one heat in three shall not start for a fourth,
unless such horse shall have made a dead heat.

In heats, best three in five, a horse not winning a heat in
the first five shall not start for a sixth, unless said horse shall
have made a dead heat, but horses so ruled out shall have a
right to a share of the purse or premium, according to their
rank at the close of their last heat. And where ten or more
horses start in a’race, every horse not ruled out shall have a
right to compete until the race is completed, subject, how-
ever, to all other penalties in these Rules.

RULEs 82, 83, 84. A dead heat, without regard to the
stage of the race when it occurs, shall be counted in the
race, and shall be considered a heat which is undecided only
as between the horses making it, and it shall be considered
a heat that is lost by all the other horses contending therein:
and the time made in a dead heat shall constitute a record or
bar for each horse making such dead heat.

14

RULE 83. Whenever two or more horses have to their
credit a sufficient number of dead heats, or heats and dead
heats, to have terminated the race if such dead heats had
been won by either of them, only such horses shall start in
the next heat.

RuLE 84. A horse prevented from starting by Rule 83
shall not be distanced, but ruled out, and shall be entitled
to a share of the purse or premium according to his rank at
the close of his last heat.

RULES 85, 86, 87. Refers to time between heats, ete.

RULE 88. Horses meeting shall pass to the left.

Rute 89. Horses called for a race shall have the exelu-
sive right of the course, and all other horses shall vacate the
track at once.

RuLE 90. Relates to time given in case of accident.

RULE 91. Relates to collisions and interferences; gives
great latitude to the judges.

RuLE 94. A horse must win a majority of the heats
which are required by the conditions of the race to be en-
titled to the purse or stake: but, if a horse shall have dis-
tanced all competitors in one heat, the race will then be
concluded, and such horse shall receive the entire purse and
stakes contended for, unless stipulated otherwise in the pub-
lished conditions.

RuLE 95. Relates to premiums awarded.

Rue 96 and 97. In deciding the rank of horses other
than the winner, the horse having won two heats is better
than those winning one: a horse having a heat better than
one making a ‘‘dead heat:” a horse having one or two and
making a dead heat better than one having an equal number
of heats but not making a dead heat; a horse having a heat
or making a dead heat better than a horse that has not won

a heat or made a dead heat; a horse that has been placed ~

‘*second”’ one heat better than a horse that has been placed
‘third’ any number of heats.

RULE 98. When two or more horses appear equal in rank
in the summary of the race, they shall share equally in the
award of premiums won by them.

RULE 99. Gives rules as to second and third money, ete.

RULES 100, 101, 102. Distances, ete. (See technical terms. )

RULE 103. Horses distanced in the first heat of a race
shall be equal, but horses that are distanced in any subse-
quent heat shall rank, as to each other, in the . rder of the
positions to which they were entitled at the start of the heat
in which they were distanced.

RULEs 104, 105 and 106 relate to ‘‘ time and its record.”

Rute 107. The two leading horses shall be separately
timed, and the time of the one winning shall only be a record
or bar, as the case may be, and if the winner is afterward
ruled out, such record made shall stand as bar or record.

RULE 108. In ease of dead heat, the time shall constitute
a record or bar to the horses making it, ete.

RuLE 109. ‘The time shall be taken from the pole horse,
or from the horse that is selected to score by.

i

15

RULES 110, 111, 112. Suppression of time is a fraud and
punishable.

RULE 113, Any contest for purse, premium, stake or
wager, or involving admission fees, on any course, and in
the presence of a judge or judges, shall constitute a public
race.

RULE 114. A record can only be made in a public place,
with trot or pace, with two timers, ete.

Rube 115. Time otherwise taken, at fairs and on any
track, whether short or not, shall be known as a bar, and
shall constitute a bar the same as if regularly made over a
track that was full measurement.

RULEs 116, 117, 118. Any public race at a less distance
than one mile, and exceeding a half mile, shall be regarded
as irregular, and time made in any such race shall create a
bar.

RuLeE 117. Time heretofore made on non-association
tracks shall be records or bars, as the case may be, the same
as if made over association tracks.

Rute 118. If it should appear to the Boards of Review
or Appeal, upon investigation, that any record was fraudu-
lently obtained, it shall be declared not a record, but a bar.

RuLE 119. Time made under the saddle, on snow or ice,
as well as time made when two or more horses are harnessed
together, shall constitute a bar for races of the same charac-
ter, but shall not be a bar for races of a different character.

RuLE 120. All complaints must be made before rider or
driver dismounts.

RULES 121 and 122 relate to decorum.

RULE 123. Forbids loud shouting, ete., by drivers.

RULES 124 and 125 relates to ‘* fouls” and penalty.

RULES 126 and 127 relate to fines.

RULE 128. Forbids any compromise of penalties by judges
or members.

RULES from 129 to 135, inclusive, relate to suspensions
and expulsions.

RULES from 136 to 139, inclusive, relate to right of appeal.

~RuLE 140. The age ot a horse shall be reckoned from
the first day of January of the year of foaling.

RuLE 141. Equal eligibility of colts and fillies.

RuLE 142. Green horse. (See technical terms.)

RULE 143. All races shall be started at 2 o’clock Pp. M.
from the 1st day of April to the 15th day of September, and
after that date at 1 o’clock p. m. until the season closes, un-
less otherwise provided.

RULE 145. Go as they please. (See technical terms.)

RULE 146. To go “in harness.” (See technical terms. )

RULES 147 and 148 relate to matches against time.

RULES 149, 150 and 151 relate to horses with engagements..

RuLE 152. Stake. (See technical terms.)

RULE 153. Guaranteed stake. (See technical terms.)

16

BETTING RULES.

To Govern Bets on Trotting and Pacing Races.

No. 1. All pools and bets must follow the main stakes,
purse, or other prize, as awarded by the decision of the
judges, except in cases where the horse that comes first is
found to be disqualified, or the bets are declared off for fraud
or collusion.

No. 2. If the race is postponed, it shall not affect the
pools or bets that may have been made on it. They shall .
stand until the race comes off, unless the contrary shall be
agreed on between the parties betting: Provided, the race
takes place within five days of the time first named; after
which time all bets and pools are drawn, unless made play
or pay.

No. 3. When any change is made in the conditions of a
race, all pools and bets made previous to the announcement
of the change shall be null and void.

No. 4. When a bet is made on one horse against the field,
he must start or the bet is off, and the field is what starts
against him; but there is no field unless one starts against
him.

No. 5. In the pools and betting, the pool stands good for
all the horses that start in the race; but for those horses that
do not start the money must be returned to the purchaser.

No. 6. In races made play or pay, outside bets are not
play or pay unless so made by the parties.

No. 7. All bets are void on the decease of either party,
but in ease a horse should die, play or pay bets made on him
stand.

No. 8. If a bet is made on any number of straight heats,
and there is a dead heat made, the heats are not straight,
and the party betting on straight heats loses.

No. 9. If in any case the judges declare a heat null and
void, it does not affect the bets as in case of a dead heat as to
winning in straight heats.

No. 10. When a race is coming off, and a party bets that
a heat will be made in two minutes and thirty seconds (2:30),
and they make two thirty (2:30) or less, he would win. If
he bets they will beat two minutes and thirty seconds (2:30),
and they make exactly two thirty (2:50), he loses; but if he
takes two winutes and thirty seconds (2:30) against the field,
and they make exactly two thirty (2:50), it is a tie or draw
bet. All time bets to be decided accortlingly.

No. 11. In a double event—where there is no action on
the first race in order, in consequence of forfeit or other
cause, the bet is off; but when there is an action on the bet,
and the party betting on the double event shall have won
the first, the bet shall then stand as play or pay bet for the
second event. ;

No. 12. Ifa bet should be made during the contest of a
heat that a named horse will win that heat, and he makes a

t7

dead heat, the bet is drawn, but if, after the horses have
passed the score, a party bets that a certain named horse
has won the heat, and the judges declare it a dead heat, the
backer of the named horse loses.

No. 13. In races between two or more horses of a single
dash at any distance, which result in a dead heat, it isa
draw between the horses making the dead heat, and bets be-
tween them are off; and if it is sweepstakes, the money of
the beaten horses is to be divided between the horses making
the dead heat.

No. 14. When a bettor undertakes to place the horses in
a race, he must give a specified place, as first, second, third,
and soon. The word ** last” shall not be construed to mean
“fourth and distanced,” if four start, but ‘‘ fourth” only,
and soon. A distanced horse must be placed ‘* distanced.”

No. 15. Horses shall be placed in a race and bets decided
as they are placed in the official record of the day: Pro-
vided, that where a horse comes in first, and it is afterwards
found that he was disqualified. for fraud, the bets on him.
shall be null and void. but pool-sellers and stakeholders shall
not be held responsible for moneys paid by them under the
decision of the judges of the race.

No. 16. Bets made during a heat are not determined un-
til the conclusion of the race, if the heat is not mentioned at
the time.

No. 17. Either of the bettors may demand stakes to be
made, and, on refusal, declare the bet to be void.

No. 18. Outside bets cannot be declared off on the course
unless that place was named for staking the money, and
then it must be done by filing such declaration in writing
with the judges, who shall read it from the stand before the
race commences.

No. 19. Bets agreed to be paid or received, or bets agreed
to be made or put up elsewhere than at the place of the race,
or any other specified place, cannot be declared off on the
course.

No. 20. Bets on horses disqualified and not allowed to
start are void, unless the bets are play or pay.

No. 21. A bet cannot be transferred without the consent
of parties to it, except in pools.

No. 22. When a bet is made on a horse’s time, it shall be
decided by the time made in a public race, he going single
and carrying his proper weight.

No. 23. When a horse makes time on a short track, it
Shall not constitute a record for the decision of bets.

No. 24. Horses that are distanced or drawn at the con-
clusion of a heat, are beaten in the race by those that start
afterward. <A horse that is distanced in a heat is beaten by
one drawn at the termination of the same heat.

No. 25. When aman lays odds and intends to take the
field against a single horse, he must say so, and the other
party will choose his horse. When a man undertakes to
name the winner, whether he bets odds or takes odds, he
must name some one horse.

18

No. 26. All bets relate to the purse, stake or match, if
nothing to the contrary is specified at the time of making
the bet.

No. 27. Parties wishing all the horses to start for a bet,
must so name it at the time the bet is made.

No. 28. When the judge declares a heat null and yoid,
all bets on that heat shall stand for decision on the next
heat.

No. 29. All pools and bets shall be governed and decided
by these rules, unless a stipulation to the contrary shall be
agreed upon by the parties betting.

No. 30. Should any contingencies occur not provided for
by these rules, the judges of the day shall decide them.

No. 31. When a horse which has not been sold in the
pools wins the race, the best horse in the pools wins the
money.

THE NEW STANDARDS.

Adopted at the meeting of the American Trotting Regis-
ter Association, at Chicago, April 6, 1892.
RULES ADMITTING TO TROTTING STANDARD.

1. Any trotting stallion that has a record of 2:30 or bet-
ter; provided any of his get has a record of 2:35 trotting or
better; or provided his sire or dam is already a standard
trotting animal.

2. Any mare or gelding that has a trotting record of 2:50
or better.

5. <Any horse that is the sire of two trotters with records
of 2:30 or better.

4. Any horse that is the sire of one trotter with a record
of 2:30 or better; provided he has either of the following ad-
ditional qualifications: (1) A trotting record of 2:35 or bet-
ter; (2) is the sire of two other animals with trotting records
of 2:35; (3) has a sire or dam that is already a standard
trotting animal.

5. Any mare that has produced a trotter with a record of
2:30.

6. The progeny of a standard trotting horse when out of
a standard trotting mare.

7. The female progeny of a standard trotting horse when
out of a mare by standard trotting horse.

8. The female progeny of a standard trotting horse when
out of a mare whose dam is a standard trotting mare.

9. Any mare that has a trotting record of 2:35 or better,
whose sire or dam is a standard trotting animal.

RULES ADMITTING TO PACING STANDARD.

1. Any pacing stallion that has a record of 2:25 or better;
provided any of his get has a record of 2:30 pacing or better;
or provided his sire or dam is already a standard pacing
animal.

19

2. Any mare or gelding that has a pacing record of 2:25
or better. .

3. Any horse that is the sire of two pacers with records
of 2:25. ;

4. Any horse that is the sire of one pacer with a record
of 2:25 or better; provided he has either of the following ad-
ditional qualifications: (1) A pacing record of 2:30 or better:
(2) is the sire of two other animals with pacing records of
2:30; (38) has a sire or dam that is already a standard pacing
animal.

5. Any mare that has produced a pacer with a record of
2:25 or better.

6. The progeny of a standard pacing horse when out of a
standard pacing mare.

7. The female progeny of a standard pacing horse when
out of a mare by a standard pacing horse.

8. The female progeny of a standard pacing horse when
out of a mare whose dam is a standard pacing mare.

9. Any mare that has a pacing record of 2:50 or better
whose sire or dam is a standard pacing animal.

10. The progeny of a standard trotting horse, out of a
standard pacing mare, or of a standard pacing horse, out of
a standard trotting mare.

20

TECHNICAL TERMS OF THE TURF.

AGcrE—lIs reckoned from 1st of January in
year he is foaled.

ARrENA—(see Parket.)

Bar, A—Where a race is irregular, or when
the record is fraudulently obtained, the horse
will not be given a record, but will be barred
from a similar race. (See rules 115, 116, 117,
118 and 119.)

Break—To run, to go above the race gait.

Carrying Our—Crowding a contestant out
of position.

CENTERFIELD—(see Infield. )

Drap Heat—Horses coming home even.

DisTaANce STANDS—Fixed points on the home
stretch for the distance flagman. When, com-
ing home in a heat, the forward horse’s muzzle
is even with the wire, the starter drops his flag;
the distance flagman then drops his flag. Any .
horse not at the wire or between these flags
when they drop is distanced—that is, he is shut
out of the race. The first distance stand, 300
feet from the wire (see eut), is used in a field
of eight or less horses. The second distance
stand, 450 feet from the wire, is used in a field
of more than eight horses.

Fietp or Horses—All the horses taking
part in a heat or race.

FLatr—Even seconds, without fractions.

‘<Go!’’—The word used by the starter in
‘“‘sending off’’ the horses in a heat.

Go as THEY PLeaseE—Either to wagon, sulky
or horseback.

Go 1N Harness
to go.

Means horse and sulky

21

GRAND Stanp—A covered amphitheatre to
accommodate spectators.

GREEN Horse—One that never raced.

Hanpicap, A—Is a race for which the
horses are weighed, according to their merits
in the estimation of the handicapper, for the
purpose of equalizing their chances of winning.

Hanpicap, A Free—lIs one in which no lia-
bility is incurred for entrance money, stake or
forfeit until acceptance of the weight allotted,
either by direct acceptance or through omission
to declare out. |

Heat—Once around a one-mile track in
a trotting or pacing race.

Home—The wire. (See cut of tracks.)

Home SrretrcH (proper)—The track from
the last to the first turn.

Home Srrercu (in a race)—The track from
the last turn to the wire.

Horse—lIncludes stallions, mares and geld-
ings. In our list of fastest horses it means
stallions only, as B. H., means bay: stallion.

Hurpite Race—A race if which artificial
harriers, in the shape of hurdles, must be leaped.

INFIELD OR CENTERFIELD——Space_ inclosed
by the pole fence.

JOCKEYING—Trying to get an unfair ad-
vantage inarace.

J UDGES—Persons selected to settle all contro-
versies appertaining to races, except as to the
time of the horses. (See, also, starter, dis-
tance and patrol judges. )

JuDGES, DistTance—(See distance stands,
flagman. )

JubGES, Parrot—Mounted; to patrol the
track and prevent frauds. (See rule 59.)

22

JuDGES’ STanp— Stand for judges and
‘¢starter judge.”’

JUDGE, STARTER—The person in the judges’
stand who, by the word ‘‘Go!”’ gives the
horses their send-off, or rings them back when
not fairly started, names the score horse when
necessary, signals the flagman at the distance
stand when to drop his flag, ete.

LenetHo—tThe length of the foremost horse
and his sulky; as ‘‘a length ahead,’’ ‘‘ winning
by a length,”’ ete.

Marpen—Is a horse that never won a race.

Neck—tThe length of the neck of the fore-
most horse; as ‘‘a neck ahead,’’ ‘*‘ winning by
a neck,’’ ete. :

Neck AnD Neck—Horses are neck and neck
when exactly even while racing.

Pappock—lInclosed space in which to turn
out horses near the stables; sometimes appled
to ‘‘infield.”’

PARKET OR ARENA—The uncovered inclosed
space between the grand stand and the track.

Puay or Pay—HKither race or forfeit the
stakes. “

PoE, THe—The inner portion of the track;
shortest distance around a track.

PoLte Fence—Fence around the track on the
inner side.

Por, Havinec rHe—A horse drawing or win-
ning the position next to the pole fence is said
to have the pole. Horses draw for pole and
position in first heat; after that the winner of
the last heat takes the pole in the next heat;
the other horses take their positions at the
right of the pole horse in the order of their
coming home.

>
Post Racr, A—Is one for which subscribers

23

declare at the usual time before a race for de-
claring to start the horse or horses they intend
to run, without other limitation of choice than
the rules of racing and the conditions of the
race prescribe.

Propuce Racer, A—TIs one for which horses
are named, by whose produce the race is to be
run,

PULLING A Horse—Holding him back.

PurseE—A sum of money or other prize
offered for a race.

Race—Any contest for purse or stake pre-
mium, or wager for money, or involving ad-
mission fee on any course, and in the presence
of judge or judges.

Rack, THrowi1nG A——Giving it, by a foul, to
another horse.

Score, THE—The order in which horses get
home in a heat or race.

ScorE Carp—A card on which to mark the
relative positions taken by winning horses in
heat and race.

Scorrnc—Getting horses abreast for a start or
send-off in a heat.

Score Horse—A horse designated by the
starter for all the other horses to score by in
that heat. No horse must come to the wire for
a start ahead of the score horse. The score
horse is only named after contesting drivers, in
order to secure advantage in the start, have re-
peatedly prevented a fair send-off.

SEND-OFF—When the starter gives the word
‘‘Go!”’ at the beginning of a heat, the horses are
_said to have a ‘‘ send-off.’

Setting Down 1x Fronr or—Forcing a
contestant back by holding up in front of him.
_ Sponernc—Washing out horse’s mouth.

24

SrakE, A—A race open to all complying
with its published conditions, for which the
prize is the total amount of money contributed
by the nominators, all of which belongs to the
winner or winners, unless otherwise provided
in the published conditions.

STEEPLECHASE—A race to see which of a
number of horsemen can first reach some dis-
tant object, as a steeple, ete.

SWEEPSTAKES—Is a race publicly declared
open to all complying with its conditions, for
which the prize is the sum of the stakés which
the subscribers agree to pay for each horse
nominated; and, if an additional sum of money,
cup, plate, or other reward, is offered to the
winner, the race is still a sweepstakes, what-
eyer name may be given to such addition.
Three subscribers, unless otherwise stipulated
in its conditions, make a sweepstakes, and the
race is not void so long as there is a horse
qualified to start.

SWEEPSTAKES OR Matcu, A PrivatE—Is one
to which no money is added, and which is not
publicly advertised previous to the engagement
being made. Allowance and extra weights
shall not be allowed or incurred in respect of
matches or_private sweepstakes.

TimERS—Persons who take the official time
of the two forward horses and report it to the
judges, who announce it to the spectators.

Timers’ Sranp—(See cut.) Stand for the
timers.

Trix Cur Rrecorp—A time record not made
in a race.

Wank Over—Where but one of the horses
entered starts.

W atk Over, A—Is when two horses in en-

25

tirely different interest do not run for race or
stake.

(2). Walk over by any horse entitles him
to only one-half of the added money in stakes.

(4). In purse races two or more horses, in
entirely different interests, must enter and
‘start, or no race.

‘¢Warminc Up’’—Driving horses for exer-
cise before scoring for a heat.

Wire—Point of beginning or end of heat or
race, home. (See cut.)

The express conditions of a race supersede
the rules of racing when there is a conflict.

TRACKS AND RECORDS.

Among American horsemen there is much
discussion as to the relative advantages of kite
and regulation tracks, and also as to time, or
‘¢tin cup,’* and race records. On the one hand
it is claimed that a kite track is the nearest a
return track can be made to a straight mile,
and that the true time of a horse is the quick-
est time he can make on a level, straight mile:
that time records are fair records for the rea-
son that the horse always has a fair start at full
speed and can trot a real mile at the pole, while
In a race it may be ‘catch and grab’? from
the start to the finish; that, for these reasons,
time records, while a few seconds faster, are

fairer tests than race records.

A reasonable conclusion would seem to be
that, where the principal object is to secure the

26

fastest one-mile record, it is best secured by a
time race upon a kite track; but, where the
object is to secure a race record and give sat-
isfaction to the spectators, who are the princi-
pal patrons of the turf, or where heats of more
than a mile are to be raced, the regulation track
is by far preferable.

That where one horse upon a kite track is
only a few seconds faster than another horse
on a regulation track, it is unfair to the latter
to record the time only without stating the
track used. It is also unfair to give time ree-
ords of one horse against the race records of
another without a statement of the kind of
record.

Neither kite tracks nor time records can now
be abolished, nor would it be fair to the prog-
eny of fast sires and dams that the former
should be deprived of the same advantages to
make fast records that the latter have recently
enjoyed.

Neither will regulation tracks and race records
be abolished, and it would be equally unfair to
former horses with race records upon regulation
tracks only, to have their time compared with
time records and kite tracks; and therefore the
regulation track will continue to exist and re-
tain its popularity so long as the people pay
their money to see a race.

Se ey

27
Every record hereafter made should show
upon what kind of a track it was made, ‘and
whether in a time or race contest. With this
rule adopted all contests and discussions upon
that subject must naturally die out.

How to Mark Seore Cards.

White the figures of each heat in the order of the horses’
coming home, as announced by the judges, in the column of
the heat trotted, and when any horse has won three heats,
unless there are ties, find the totals. To aid in finding totals,
there has been inserted the following

SPECIMEN SCORE CARD.
FIRST RACE.

aa ec coe a Class. PWS E ini she or ee
a HORSES. iiéron. DRIVERS’ COLORS. Pires if S
| 1] 2] 3} 4 5 6 =
Se a SSS eae Os i Os a a
Pi Pale Alto: .... Cap SR Bs i a ee ee LAS 9 9 1} 1
oe Allerton...<... Boe Eh es PU rit rut 5 cs elon ae as 2) 3} 1 3 : 21 2
3 ‘Nelson Dfetiia ls eee OPENER dn cihts.gs Ks agawind TOP SP Ata tole es
4 Pee ite cos aS EAA, SOWANEO 55s 2560 02 aes 4} 5! 2) 8) 1) 4) 4
5 |Delmarch...... SoS p WEE Eo) ee ee a 5 4 "| 7 | O} 5
a es ae a ee 6) 7 5 6) 3] 0) 7
7 hreats ay ei hur, iB. H...|White and Black...... “| 6) 7| 5 4| 0} 8
3 et a wine and Red........| 8 9 9| 2) 5) o 6
9 \Charleston ....|B. H... lOrange and Black..... 9 8) 1 4 6) O} 9

To illustrate the above score card:

Palo Alto has won three heats in the race (best three in
five), and is marked 1 in totals. Of three of the other
horses, Allerton has a heat, and his next two figures are 2, 2:
and Nelson has won a heat, and his next two figures are 2, 3:
and Stamboul has won a heat, and his next figures are 2, 4.
Striking off the numbers 1, 2, which each horse has in com-

28

mon, and we find Allerton is marked in the total 2, Nelson
3, and Stamboul 4. ®

There were but nine horses entered, and in the five heats
trotted the five last horses not having won a heat are ruled
off and not allowed to start in the last or sixth heat. The
sixth heat is trotted in order that one horse (Palo Alto in
this case) may win three heats and close the race: and when-
ever any horse wins three heats it ends the race. If instead
of there being nine or less horses to start there are ten, then
all the horses would trot to the end without regard to
whether they had won a heat in five or not. (See rules.)
If there had been ten horses, then the horses inarked 0 in
the sixth heat would have trotted and been marked what
they made. ‘The rule of placing horses not winning a heat
is, the horse having the smallest figure counts ahead of a
horse not having so small a figure, no matter what the other
figures are. ‘To illustrate: The smallest figure of horses not
Winning a heat is 2; but Delmarch and Phallas both have 2,
so we must look to the next smallest figure of these two
horses to place them, which are, Delmareh 3, Phallas 5; so
Delmarch is marked ahead and Phallas next, without regard
to any other of their figures.

Axtel now has the lowest figure, 3, and is marked next to
Phallas. The next lowest figure is 4, which both McKinney
and Charleston have, but MeKinney’s next figure is 5 and
Charleston’s 6, therefore McKinney is marked ahead of
Charleston.

Pia se Foo Se EN 5

*

i
=
|
i
ine)
nN
|
|
|
[«
|
|
|
1
]
|
x
8
-
i
Fats
ihe
a
|
|

ee

x : ( ae

i, (eee

ne

_——_——

Ss

“4

.

:

p+ Miata pes SO SS 1 es

3)
Ker)
aed

:

:
'
'
4

a)

sie Si ose APE aS ta oe ae ee

a

) oe ”

Aelia ae

*
:
hd
an

ai aia la |
wade |
|
18 Time |
S ‘otal “SM VERE EE RO VOR MSS ieee Bee ee ee
4 | a
! | |
| | (os)
AS
e | Jee
= < ) tae
fal ie
a)
Bi als
egy 1m (Ger
: ats
|S aa
mT : 1 80
i |
a a
| Oz
Sy |
eS
Pe 8 113
. a ea
. |
|
Er |
ce |
| ar
* |
wa
Fi

Time

ees) \
~

7)
p

AR ECE SPS A be ee

a

Maiieeg SS.

apy a ee

e
B
far)

SIVULAYy

} HEATS
2) S74 F5-6

- syaemoy

«

a=¢

ie ,
: * i gS RE.
ae é

~ J

SE EID ee:
ax nee

&

Be be: a

Be

7. a eet
aA. :

Purse eee pe et

‘

ara ee a ee ee

—

HEATS
i)

1234

+379

sas : a
wah Spi

Ta

’ =F ET IREND: 5 Pe, a

ae Saere “i ; ‘'
iT ie ce Fe —_——
‘ a el Fae
oe g 3 -
St elise oS Sk
ee o< *
22 Bas = Sama eee

am
- in,
PF

5 6

“J

Raine Ria Wits hick

€

o
a

bids

a tars
)

a dy es

‘ i % 2a Sa 4
“i (tata fates

ae

x

\ RES

saa

oumLy,

syavwMayy

«>
i

ait ae ah We ae

%

¢

—— ee

re

Se
a

Es)
oO
B
2
zd
aa
n

ge

‘ES ase eae

* he id ¥

giro ae

HE/

a 2°39. 87 829

ie
B
oO

syaemery

17a a coe us saa oat uy Sia Si

7

To

Pe abt
| | fa
. ! nemarks
a re
|
; |
; $9.
cy

ME a eo OR

a

ime Ca ee ac: Tae Time

>

Dee Pell

ees

rt Aes fT
*, Te

—}

Purse $50 oo ee

i

Remarks

ee

¥,,

o a
aN

Class.

ouLL

-syavutey

a
’

i ee

v

a —

bi lh eS eine ae

Le

mae EE

wLe.

Time

o

R’m’k

Fo.

|.
78 918

Parse Ge aes

HEATS
5 6

1234

KE Ai a TCR SRS AeA ig Se pte es Pe re Remarks —
|

Cap

EE 2 | ee eee ee ET

Col’r Color

Horse

HORSE

* -
Sr a 4 Pa | *
ga .
Class

ie
aa

‘ a a bai eae = ~ —
Fell Wet FAS2 Bis i:
uJ “3 = ~~ 9 ee te 3

;

<«

— ee ee ee

+ Class

: FAR a NL

Sad
o
ees SL

—

Time Time Remarks

% ~. ‘os ae a eee eee SES AAs PR A PR FE TA AS 0 Sot ew
a ¢ CO —

oe
Perse B= eee

—— a

-. ea Date

$ =
hp =
—=tlet )\b
« we wy +
aK .o =
ers.
+
_ > Class —
Ee
a
-— ||.
ae
i
%
P
+4 hey
.
—
Ty ea
r+

Purse Beane pets

-

A >

2 an eee 5 tA

‘

—_————— ~~

“gas

es

a Sy a Sg et = SRF mars re ELT OM EET SMB AW Che F EET ak

Time

Remarks

Cee he oe es ae
a ; Lige eal

meme a Cie Sg Tc

- Date. c= ares: -—

-

Purse e Eis ee

Time Remarks

6
>

: Pes ne ghee

—s

e-~
€

td
—— ,

Color
Cap

es

Col’r
orse

ae ag ets le Soe ae cee ae ieee omen a come aw See nee ae meee amen em, © Seay

a

EGESE SS OC ae

a,

eA

12345

|
|
|

Cap

’r Color

Col
Hors
|
|
:
|

HORSE

/

|

|

iz

)

!

|
Rees bs

/

|

= - a -

Time

Time

ae
|
|
=
ra

A er erp en

Remarks

Lat a ere

f a Ei © reat
Ee PE BPR

We leis hi S53 oie
REA me xeon ABS Ser.

Col'r

gage
HORSE >

hr ee oe

ERIS OEE
RIS Oe PR Ate DE Mia SAS De

_ HEATS
‘ER 3 4.8.6

ae) j
an

ig ‘ 15 is = - ; >

ps

ne

AY
t

7px

dies

1 RRR RPS: 5, SRR shih a rae
| aD phecietett Pontes SS ee pene Reem
J

>»

12345678

Hc S08 0p a

SPEED TRIALS WITH CARDS.

Fascinating Game for Parlor and Club.

Monday

| Wednes

: | Tuesday

: | Szercday

)14/15/16'17)
| 21/22/23 24)

(28/29

15 16

3
8| 9 10 11/12
15/16/17 18) 19
22/23/24 25 @

(5) 6 7 3 dae
‘12|13 1415) 16/17)
19/20/21 22/23, @®

|26|27|28 29/30)...]...)]

| Thursa.

aturd.

WwW w | 06

» | friday

10 11/12
117| 18/19

22 23{24/25 26

|21| 22/23 |

) 27|28| 29) 30 |

: | Sundar

: | Monday

6\27 28 29 30

| Wednes..

| Thurs

friday

> | Tuesday |

12,13 1415,
26) 7 28 29)

| 2 3 7 5, 6
8} g Io1r 12,

16/17 18 19,
|23/24 25 26,

al slhedue ede

21 22 23)

|18/19 @ 21)
|25|26 27 28

20/21 22 23

‘15

\12

iy’

4

16

Ig 20 21 22\¢

0

13)
20)
27|

24,
la
8

22
29

5
26
We,
/10

17
24

31

Gs iad ms SR Nl

Score Card.—In this game score cards, sep-
arate from this book, have been prepared ex-
pressly for keeping the records of horses in
heats, races and at tables. These are abso-
lutely essential in determining which are the
winners: Upon the back of these score cards
are four classes of horses from which the
racers may be selected. Other horses or bicy-
clists with records may be used instead. Each
table playing has its separate score card, which
must be numbered at the top to correspond
with the number of the table.

How to Play It.—‘‘ Parket’’ is a four-hand
game of cards, and may be played at any num-
ber of. tables.. The four aces represent the
four horses to beyraced. The players at the
first table select the horses, and also find which
aces are to represent the horses selected.

How to Select the Horses.—The four play-
ers at the first table cut a pack of cards for
choice of horses. In cutting, king is always
high and ace is low; the highest cards have

EVs
choice in their order. The first horse chosen
at the first table determines the ‘‘eclass’’ of
horses to be used in the race

as, if Monbars
should be the first horse chosen, the other three
must be selected from ‘* Class C,’* to which he
belongs. (See back of score card.) Suppose
the other three horses chosen are Ralph
Wilkes, Geo. St. Clair and Gift O’Neer. To
find which aces represent these four colts, the
pack of cards is first well shuffled, and then
dealt from hand to table, faces up, always
placing one card upon the other. The first ace
found will represent that one of the horses
chosen for the race that has the fastest record.
We find (see back of score card, Class C) that
Monbars’ time, 2:164, is the fastest one of the
four colts selected, so that the first ace is Mon-
bars. By the same process we find that the
second ace found is Ralph Wilkes, time 2:18;
the third is Geo: St. Clair, time 2:202; the
fourth is Gift O’ Neer, time 2:24%. Write the
name of each horse opposite and at the left of
his ace, and his player’s name at the right of it
on the score card. The players at the other
tables, having learned from the first table the
horses and their aces, proceed to cut for choice
of the sAmE horses. Each player at each table
writes upon the score card the name of his
horse at the left of his ace, and his own at
the right, on the same line. These prelimin-

Vi

aries having been completed, the players are
ready to start their horses.

The Race.—The players at each table cut for
deal, preference always being given to ladies.

The dealer shuffles the cards well and runs
them off from his hands to the table, one above
the other, faces up. As soon as any player

ss

sees his ace he calls ‘‘ Ace. It is then taken
from the pack and placed by itself, face up,
before the dealer. Each ace drawn is placed
at the right of the one drawn before it. If
any player sees any of his other cards in the
order of 2, 3, 4, etc., he calls them as he sees
them, and they are placed in that order upon
his ace until his pack is covered with his king.
After the dealer has dealt all the cards from
his hand to the pack upon the table, (except
such as have been built upon their respective
aces, ) he shuffles the table pack and deals them
off again, placing the cards in their order
upon their respective aces, until the pack of

each ace is covered from duce to king, when, of

=
course, there will be no other cards to shuflle
and deal. The first king so found wins the
heat for the horsehis ace represents, and so all
the others in the order of reaching their kings.
The first ace found is said to have the ‘* pole,’’
and his place is always at the left of the other
aces. The advantages of having the ‘pole ”’

will become manifest as the play progresses.

VI.

If, in dealing the cards to the table, after an
ace is found, its ecards should follow in this or-
der, 5, 4, 3, 2, as soon as the 2 is reached it
will be called and placed upon its ace; the 3
ean then be placed upon the 2, the 4 upon the
3, and the 5 upon the 4, and so on back so
long as the next higher card is exposed at the
top of the pack upon the table, and this rule of
taking back applies to every stage of the game;
and any eard entitled to be played which shows
its face upon the top of the table pack will al-
ways take precedence of any card still in the
hands of the dealer—even though if the latter
were dealt it would be entitled to be played;
but such card on the table pack will not lose
its precedence by being covered by the card in
the hand if diligence is used by the player in
calling the card as it appears.

It is of the utmost importance to the success
of any horse that his player should not let any
sard, that would count for him in the game,
pass without calling it, and hence the necessity
of each player keeping in mind his next card
and calling it as soon as it appears. And
where cards are rapidly dealt the utmost vigil-
ance is required. .

If, in building upon an ace toward its king,
a card is accidentally omitted, and the next
higher put in its place and builded upon, when
the mistake is discovered the omitted card and

Vil.
all above it are returned to the pack to be
dealt again. That is called, in race parlance,
‘¢setting the horse back for ranning,’’ and he
must build again from the last card that was in
proper position.

To Mark the Score.— Mark the horses in each

of the five heats, when completed, in their
proper column upon the score card, from the
top down, 1, 2, 3, 4, in the order of their
finding their kings, and put the total standing
of each in the total column at the right.

To Find the Totals.—If a horse wins three
heats in first five he must be 1 in totals, and any
horse haying 1, 1, 4, 4, + will take over any
horse having 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, notwithstanding the
sum of the first (14) is much larger than the
sum (9) of the last; so 1, 2, 4, 4, 4 will take
over 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, although the sum of the last
is less than the sum of the first. The rule is
that if any two horses have the same figure, say
1, the one that has the next lowest, say 2, takes
from the horse not having a 2, no matter what
the other figures may be; or, any horse that
has a lower figure in the heats than any other,
takes ahead in the totals, no matter what. the
other figures are, and this applies between any
horses. This is the rule of the turf.

These races are the best three in five—that
is, any horse making three first heats wins the
race. In a real race, if a horse should take

VIII.
the three first heats that would end the race,
and all the horses entered would be given their
totals according to their winnings in the three
heats. In this game the five heats are played
by all the horses, even if one should take
three successive heats. This is done for the
purpose of keeping all the players occupied
at all the tables, and while one horse may win
three first heats at one table, he may not have
any at another.

Each heat is dealt by the player at the left
of the last dealer. He first draws the winning
ace from the pack and places it before him,
face up, to build upon. That gives such win-
ner the ‘+ pole,’’ and all its advantages. After
thoroughly shuffling the ecards, he then deals
them off, as did the last dealer, the other aces
taking their position at the right of the ‘*pole”’
ace, in the order in which they are dealt from
the pack.

As. soon as the five heats are played and
marked upon the score card, the ‘+ total ’* blank
is filled in this first race in the manner above
described. If a tie occurs between two or more
horses, they must either race again, or it may
be decided by running off the cards, after
thoroughly shuffling them, when the first of
the tied aces found takes position ahead of the
second, and so on.

Having marked the totals of all the horses in

Ix.
the first race, proceed in the same manner to
play each of the other four races upon the score
card, marking totals at the end of each race.
No horse is g7ven the ‘‘ pole”? at the beginning
of a race, but each must take his place as the
eards are dealt. It is only at the beginning
of Aeats that the winners are given the ‘ pole.”’

After the five races are completed, the posi-
tion of each horse in each race is noted on
the score card under title of ‘‘ Five Race To-
tals,*’ precisely the same as the heats are
marked in the five races played. And totals
of positions in races are marked the same as
totals of the heats above. If there is found a
tie in the totals of five races, it is played off
the same as ties in heats, above described.

Each table playing, sums up its totals of races
as above described, and then a grand total of
ach horse at all the tables is found and marked
under title of ‘‘ Tables and Totals.”’

The table giving the winning horse most first
heats, wins the first prize for his owner at that
table. The second prize goes to the next win-
ning horse, and is given under the same rule.
All ties are settled either by racing again, or
by running off the cards as above described, or
by cutting for first place.

To Change Partners.—To change partners at
tables, it is necessary that the ladies at all the
tables have the same horses as the ladies at the

X.

first table; and the gentlemen the same as the
gentlemen at the first table. Then, at the end
of each race, the ladies at each table may move
to the next table, gentlemen remaining at the
same table, in which case the lady who drew
the winning table will take the prize under the
above rules, no matter where she may sit at
the end of the races. In this case one prize
goes to the lady of the winning horse at her
winning table, and the other to the gentleman
of the winning horse at his winning table.
This rule is allowed in disregard to the rules
of the turf, both as to the choosing of horses
and taking of prizes, and is only permissible
where the players seek to make acquaintances
as well as to enjoy and win at the race.

SYNOPSIS OF “ PARKET.”

Name the aces of a pack of cards each after
a different horse to be raced, shuffle well, and
deal them upon the table faces up. Place the
aces, When found, each by itself on the table,
and build upon them their cards in their order,
2, 3, ete., spots, until each ace is covered with
its king. This may necessitate the ghuffling
and dealing of the table pack several times, un-
til the packs of the four aces are full from duce
to king. The first king reached wins for his

ace, the others in their order.

“ty eS Repay e ¥, 5% =

XI.

PROGRESSIVE PARKET.

The same general rules govern as in Par-
ket. Two ladies at the head table cut for
choice of horses, and select them. Two gen-
tlemen then cut and choose. The first lady
writes her name and horse against dia-
monds, the second lady hers against clubs; the
first gentleman writes his against hearts, the
second gentlemen his against spades. The red
‘ards are partners, and the black cards are part-
ners. The same horses are written against the
same aces at all the tables, the ladies selecting
from the same horses as the first table ladies,
and gentlemen from the same selected by first
table gentlemen. Ladies cut for deal at each
table, and deal all the pack equally to the four
players. Diamonds and hearts assist each
other to build from ace to king, clubs and
spades the same. The first king found is
marked 1 on the score card, the others in their
order. If two or more players have in their
hands the cards that will carry them to their
kings, the one who first plays king, and says
‘‘king,’’? is marked ahead of those not saying
‘‘king.’’? If two or more play their kings at

ee

XII.

the same time, the one who says ‘‘ king’’ takes
ahead of the others. If two or more kings are
played and called at the same time, the players
cut or run the cards for position. Until two
kings are found the cards are dealt to the four
players. After two kings are found, if oppo-
nents are out, the cards are dealt only to the
remaining opponents, until one of them finds
the king; he is then marked 3 and the other 4.
If two partners are the first out, then the heat
is ended, and of the other two the one nearest
out is marked 3, the other 4. If the two last
partners are a tie, they cut or run off for po-
sition, for partners ever play against each
other.

To Change Partners at Heats.— When the first
table has found all the kings the bell rings, and
all cease playing. The winner of the heat at
the first table passes to the second table, movy-
ing each player of the same horse one table in
advance, the player at the last table taking the
first table, the same being repeated at the end
of each heat. Winners of heats, but not of
races, are g7ven the pole.

To Change Partners at the End of Races, In-
stead of Heats.—This is done the same as in
heats, except that the players of the horses
marked 1 and 2 both advance one table, instead
of only 1, as in heats.

The totals of heats, races and tables are found

XIII.
the same as in Parket. One prize is won by
the fastest horse selected by the ladies, and is
awarded to the lady whose name appears upon
the score card at the table giving the winner
the most first heats. The other prize is won
by the fastest horse selected by the gentlemen,

and is awarded under the same rule.

PARKEKT SGORB GAs

NAMES OF |, 7 FIRST RACE. HEATS. z
HORSES. | PLAYERS. 1 2 3 4 5 2
— aS SSS ——_ - — ——as

|
|

» PRCO

a SES
Peet | Be Se
wo |

ey ie” Sl Ea “hee Oa ee
BS) | ‘
THIRD RACE.
aC:
ry
w e |
THREE RACE TOTALS TABLES AND TOTALS
[ i |e 342 eels
K> | Ee oo

SN hehe Mtn, .

|
a

Copyright, 1£92, by EDWIN A. BURLINGAME. All rights reserved.

Printed and for sale by PARKET COMPANY, Grand Rapids,

RCTE i 5 =
wieASS A. SLASS >

COLOR HORSE TIME | COLOR HORSE TIME
Bre H. >| Palo Alto- .... 2:08% || S. M. Maud) S29.52-).- 2:0834
Br; H. | Allerton....... 2:0914 B. M. Smoller = ...| 2:0834
cE. INelsomirs Foci... 2:10 B.M. | Nancy Hanks. | 2:09
Boo: Stamboul.... SEIS ANTS ENG ad Bl Gat hy eee erence cel bey eaen (OE
Br.) Delmarch~....: 2:114% || B. M. | Mary Marshall) 2:12%
13} a yas gi 2) ote mee eit el lees Wh Beis Ue | Margaret S....| 2:12%
EEL. MeKinney ....| 2:12% | aGe Clingstone.....| 2:14
B. H. Phallas .......) 2:18% Neeriee marae oy secs | 2:15
ieret..| Patron ’.... ...| 221434. 1) 22... oA AaB
iB. EL. CIDE TAWESIE GS clear tall econ ley oe 2G Rteesren ee Re Seen Ay eae melee URC ar

Sess ©. COLTS een eS. C---PACERS.
iB. A. APIO, thc, <) cass BOs Wi i. ae WDITCGE sce <a: 2:06
Bro | Monbars.:.-...) 216% B. G. | FohMmstomy 7... | 2:0614
Br. H. | Ralph Wilkes..| 2:18 | B. G. | Hal Pointer...) 2:09%4
Be Et. Geo. St. Clair..| 2:20% Bee SO riGke@in ccs 2:10
Ch- Hi. | Gift O’Neer....) 2:24 || G.H. | Manager ..... 2:11%
> seach eRe Cod tate (Cala le Read Bes ..-..|) Gestle
epee Seta aa en ocd eee BNE 1 Yolo Maid 2...) 2212

_ For further records see *‘ Dikeman’s Standard Records of Amer-
ican Horses,’’ compiled by E. B. Dikeman. Published by S. K.
Bolies & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

PRICE LIST OF PARKET, THE HORSEMAN’S HANDBOOK.

Mnimarice—Mexiple: Cloth COVED 2: fic cd -scccec cece as oclsdecceceas $ .50
ae PSAME LEO OMe Rete tomer miner Aate oes 3 cin eet o'<)aae's ore aches ore 25

Address. PARKET COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

7

.

.*

‘re

Tn