Tattersall's rules

The full wording of Tattersall's rules is as follows:

1) Tatersall's Committee have authority to settle all questions relating to bets, commissions for bets and any matters arising either directly or indirectly out of wagers or gaming transactions on horse racing, to adjudicate on all cases of default, and at their discretion, to report defaulters to the Jockey Club. If a defaulter is a partnership or limited company, all or any of the partners or their agents and all or any of the shareholders, directors, officers or agents of the defaulting company may be reported to the Jockey Club.

Upon an application being made to the Committee in any case to admit or hear further evidence, the Committee may at its discretion decide to re-hear such case and upon such re-hearing may admit such further evidence and uphold, reverse or amend its original decision or adjudication as it may think fit.

2) In all bets there must be a possibility to win when the bet is made.

3) No betting first past the post will be recognised by the Committee, now will any cases involving first past the post betting be heard by the Committee.

4) All bets made, stand and are subject to official "Weigh In" with the following exceptions:

 a) Single Ante-Post bets, being made before 10am on the day of the overnight declarations will be void under the following circumstances:
     i) If the race is abandoned.
     ii) If the race is declared void.
     iii) If the 'Conditions' of the race entry are changed prior to the horses coming under Starters' Orders.
     iv) If the venue is altered.
     v) If a horse is eliminated under Jockey Club Rule 125.

However, in any such circumstances accumulative Ante-Post bets (win or place) will stand and be settled at the ante-post prices laid on the remaining horses.

Any race in which a horse is supplemented does not affect Rule 4(A).

In the event of a race being postponed to another day:

Ante-Post bets placed before the entries have closed should stand and only be made void if the race is abandoned or made void, if the horse is balloted out / eliminated under Jockey Club Rule 125 or the venue is changed.

Ante-Post bets placed after the entries have closed should be void, except when the race is run at a later date at the same venue and entries for the race are not reopened, in which case bets would stand.

 b) Bets other than Ante-Post bets will be void if the race is abandoned or declared void. If postponed to another day and overnight declarations stand, then bets stand and if the original overnight declarations do not stand, then bets will be void. Bets on a horse which does not come under Starter's Orders or on a horse declared by the Starter 'not to have started' will be void. Bets on the distance are void if the first or second horse is disqualified, or the placings are reversed.

 c) In the case of bets made at a price on the day of the race before it has been officially notified that a horse has been withdrawn before coming under Starter's Orders or has been declared 'not to have started', the liability of a layer against any horse remaining in the race, win or place, will be reduced in accordance with the following scale depending on the odds current against the withdrawn horse at the time of such official notification:

If the current odds are:

3/10 or longer: by £0.75 in the £
2/5 to 1/3: by £0.70 in the £
8/15 to 4/9: by £0.65 in the £
8/13 to 4/7: by £0.60 in the £
4/5 to 4/6: by £0.55 in the £
20/21 to 5/6: by £0.50 in the £
Evens to 6/5: by £0.45 in the £
5/4 to 6/4 by £0.40 in the £
13/8 to 7/4 by £0.35 in the £
15/8 to 9/4 by £0.30 in the £
5/2 to 3/1 by £0.25 in the £
10/3 to 4/1 by £0.20 in the £
9/2 to 11/2 by £0.15 in the £
6/1 to 9/1 by £0.10 in the £
10/1 to 14/1 by £0.05 in the £

Over 14/1: no deductions made
In the case of two or more horses being withdrawn before coming under Starter's orders, the total deductions shall not exceed £0.75 in the £.

In the case of withdrawals in reformed markets, the total deduction over the two or more horses (ie one in the original and one in the reformed market) will be calculated on the prices applicable in the original market.

For bets placed in subsequent markets deductions over withdrawn horses in these markets will be calculated on the prices applicable in these markets.

Bets made at Starting Price are not affected, except in cases where insufficient time arises for a fresh market to be formed, when the same scale of reductions will apply. In the event of the withdrawal of one or more runners in circumstances which would lead to only one runner and therefore a 'walkover', all bets on the race will be void. The race will be considered a 'walkover' for the purpose of settling bets.

For the purpose of this rule the non-appearance of the number of a declared runner in the Number Board will be held to be an official notification of the withdrawal of such horse before coming under Starter's Orders. In the case of a horse declared by the Starter 'not to have started' the racecourse announcement will be made to that effect. This official announcement will be made before teh race result is displayed.

 d) In the event of:
     i) an announcement being made that the provisions of Rule 4 (C) do not apply on the grounds that no market had been formed at the time of the withdrawal of an overnight declared runner, or
     ii) the number of an overnight declared runner not appearing in the number board,
     all bets (other than ante-post bets) made at a price prior to either eventuality will be settled at Starting Price with the exception of bets struck at nationally advertised or publically transmitted prices when Rule 4(C) will operate, based on the advertised price or the first transmitted price of the withdrawn horse(s).

 e) In the event of a horse or horses being withdrawn under Jockey Club Rule 125 (limitations of the number of runners in a race), all Ante-Post bets on such horse(s) will be void and the liability of a layer against any horse(s) remining in the race, win or place, will be reduced in accordance with a rate to be announced before the race by Tattersall's Committee, dependent on the odds current against the withdrawn horse(s) at the time of such official withdrawal.

 f) In the event of a reserve horse replacing a declared runner, all bets, other than Ante-Post bets, struck prior to such a replacement and a new market being formed will be settled at Starting Price.

5) When the 'Weighed In' announcement has been made as provided for Rule 162 of the Rules of Racing, or such other rule being in identical terms which may be substituted for it, the bets go to the horses as officially announced. Objections or disqualifications after the 'Weighed In' announcement has been made do not change the result of the race for betting purposes.

6) Bets made on one horse against another or that one horse beats another are determined by the official result. Unless agreed by the parties it is not essential that both horses should start.

7) Where a dead heat is declared, a bet on one of two horses that dead heat loses half that stake, with full odds being applied to the remaining half (if a triple dead heat or more, reduction applies in proportion).

 a) In the event of a double and the first selection dead heats, then the stake is halved and full odds applied. This then becomes the stake on the second selection. Should the second selection also dead heat then the stake is again halved.

 b) In the event of any withdrawals, Tattersall's Rule 4(C) reductions will apply to the winnings from the reduced stake.

 c) Un-named favourites finishing joint will be subject to the same rule as if they dead heated. Where an an-named favourite both dead heats and is returned joint in the market, then the stake is halved twice in the proportion of one-forth to the backer and three fourths to the layer.

8) If odds are laid without mentioning the horse, the bets must be determined by the state of the odds at the time it was made. Bets made after a race that a horse will be disqualified stand, even if no objection be made.

9) Any bet made from signal or indication when the race has been determined, will be considered fraudulent and void.

10) Subject to Rule 4(A) accumulative bets are not determined until the last event has been run.

11) Bets made on horses, jockeys, trainers etc winning any number of races within the year will be understood to mean between 1st January and 31st December for flat racing. For jump racing the recognised National Hunt season will apply.

12) In the event of a race being ordered to be run over again, or of a false start or breakaway, Starter's Orders is negated. Starting Price bets will be regulated by the price current at the time of the rerun. All bets in favour of any horse that is subsequently withdrawn from the rerun race will be void, except when such a horse comes under Starter's Orders. Rule 4(C) will apply to all bets in the event of withdrawals.

In the event of a race being re-started for reasons other than a false start or breakaway, Starter's Orders stand. Starting prices will be determined at the original 'Off time'. All bets on horses withdrawn by the Starter as ineligible to start in a re-started race will be lost.

All bets on horses eligible to run but subsequently unable to start in a re-started race and withdrawn by the Starter will be void and therefore refunded. Rule 4(C) will apply to all bets based on the prices of those horses.

13) No bet can be declared off except by mutual consent but on any allegation of fraud or corrupt practice, the Committe may investigate the case and may declare the bet void. Either of the bettors may demand stakes to be made on proving to the satisfaction of the Committee, or any two of them, that he has just cause for doing so, and if ordered, the bets must be covered or sufficient security given within the time specified in such order, in default whereof the bets will be off.

14) In the case of a photo finish, all bets will be settled as if they had been made on the result of the race.

15) If any extraordinary occasion should arise, or in cases of notorious and palpable fraud, or if it should come to the notice of the Committee that the wager or gaming transaction involved either or both of the parties in an illegal act under the current legislation in respect of betting and gaming, any of the before-mentioned rules may be suspended by the Committee and any of the before-mentioned rules may be altered or added to by a simple majority of the Committee.

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