Title 9 Part 4025

Every person subscribing to a sweepstake or entering a horse in a race to be run under this Article accepts the decision of the stewards or the decision of the commission, as the case may be, on any question relating to a race or to racing.

The nominations or entries of any person, or the transfer of any nomination or entry, may be cancelled or revoked without notice by the racing association or in the discretion of the commission or of the stewards.

A horse is not qualified to run in any race unless such horse is duly entered for that race.

No horse is qualified to be entered or run that is wholly or partly the property of or leased to or from, or in any way under the care of superintendence of, a person who is required to be licensed but is unlicensed, disqualified or ineligible, as provided in this Subchapter.

Any horse that has been the subject of improper practice may be disqualified for such time and for such races as the stewards shall determine.

Entries and declarations shall be made in writing signed by the owner of the horse or of the engagement or by the authorized agent or some person deputed by him or her; and in order to secure privacy, all entries to overnight races must be made at a specially designated booth.

Entries and declarations by telegraph are binding if promptly confirmed in writing.

Entrance money is not returned on the death of a horse nor on the horse’s failure to start, whatever the cause of the failure may be.

Entries to all races, excepting those which are opened and decided during the meeting, shall be posted on the bulletin commissions at the track where meeting is being held.

Limitations on entries.

No licensed trainer shall have any interest, either by ownership of the horse or by lease of such horse’s racing qualities, in a horse of which he or she is not the trainer and that may be racing at the same race track where the trainer is licensed and currently racing.

The name in which any horse is run must be the real or the stable name of the individual owner or the name of the partnership owner (being its stable name or the name of the individual in whose name the horse is run) of the entire interest in the horse.

The list of entries for overnight races shall be closed at the advertised time and no entry shall be admitted after that time, except that, in case of an emergency, the racing secretary may, with the consent of a steward, grant an extension of time.

The list of entries for all other races shall be closed at the advertised time and no entry shall be admitted after that time unless the nominator can prove to the stewards that the entry was mailed before the advertised time of closing; and starters must be named through the entry box by the usual time of closing on the day preceding the race unless otherwise designated by the stewards.

Entries may be made in the name of a corporation or a partnership, but no horse may race in such a name and in order to remain eligible, such entries must be transferred to an individual or a stable name on or before January 1st of the horse's two-year-old year.

Upon any change of name of a horse that has run in any country, such horse’s old name as well as such horse’s new name must be given in every entry until the horse has run three times under such horse’s new name over the course of an association.

Except in overnight races, if the hour for closing of entries or for declarations is not stated, such hour shall be understood to be midnight of the day specified.

In the absence of notice to the contrary, entries due on the eve of and during a meeting, are due at the office of the clerk of the course where the race is to be run.

A person who subscribes to a sweepstakes may, before the time fixed for naming, transfer his or her subscription.

An entry of a horse in a sweepstakes is a subscription to the sweepstakes. An entry or subscription may, before the time of closing, be altered or withdrawn.

Subscriptions and all entries or rights of entry under them shall not become void on the death of the person in whose name they were made or taken. All rights, privileges and obligations shall attach to the continuing owners including the legal representatives of the decedent.

No horse shall be considered as struck out of any of such horse’s engagements until the owner or the owner’s authorized agent shall have given notice, in writing or by printable electronic means, promptly confirmed in writing, to the clerk of the course where the horse is engaged.

The striking of a horse out of an engagement is irrevocable.

Omission by the vendor to strike a horse out of an engagement, not sold or transferred with the horse, does not entitle such horse’s owner to start the horse or to the stakes if such horse wins.

Whenever the ownership of a horse is transferred in any manner, all racing engagements of the said horse shall automatically accompany the transfer.

A sale to a person ruled off or to an unqualified or disqualified person will not entitle such person to be recognized as an owner.

No nominations shall be accepted for a sweepstakes or other race from any person whose license has been revoked and who has not been subsequently licensed by the commission; nor during the period of suspension from any person whose license has been suspended; nor from any person who is otherwise disqualified.

In making an entry for a produce race, the produce is entered by specifying the dam and the sire or sires.

If the produce of a mare is dropped before January 1st, or if there is no produce, or if the produce is dead when dropped, of if twins are dropped, the entry of such mare is void.

In produce races, allowances for the produce of untried horses must be claimed before the time of closing and are not lost by subsequent winnings.