Illegal betting
234. A person shall not lay or accept an illegal bet.
235. A person who believes that another person is likely to participate in or be connected with illegal betting shall not communicate with that other person in connection with such betting.
235A. (1) A trainer must not lay any horse that is either under his care, control or supervision or has been in the preceding 21 days.
(2) Any person employed by a trainer in connection with the training or care of horses must not lay a horse under the control of the trainer for whom he is or was employed, while so employed and for a period of 21 days thereafter.
(3) An agent or manager must not lay any horse to be driven by a driver for whom he is agent or manager.
(4) The connections must not lay any horse that is or may be entered by them or on their behalf, save that a bookmaker may lay a horse in accordance with his licence.
(5) Where under sub-rules (1), (2), (3) and (4) it is an offence for a person to lay a horse, it shall also be an offence for that person to: (a) have a horse laid on his behalf; (b) receive any monies or other valuable consideration in any way connected with the laying of the horse by another person.
(6) For the purposes of this rule “lay” means the offering or the placing of a bet on a horse:
(a) to lose a race;
(b) to be beaten by any other runner or runners;
(c) to be beaten by any margin or range of margins;
(d) that a horse will not be placed in a race in accordance with the provisions of Rule 49.
235B. (1) A trainer shall not place a bet on another horse in a race in which he has a starter.
(2) A trainer shall not place a bet on a horse in a race to finish ahead of a horse trained by that trainer in the race.