General procedures and restrictions
Compiled text through Jul 15, 2022
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Jul 15, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)At the closing time prescribed, the presiding judge shall unlock the box, list the declarations in writing according to race, and deliver them to the racing secretary.
(b)The racing secretary shall ascertain eligibility, preference, and racing status of the horses declared and determines the starting field of each race in accordance with the rules.
(c)Declarations to start a horse that is scheduled to start in any other race (except as also eligible) may only be accepted by permission of the presiding judge. Such permission shall not be given, however, when such horse is scheduled to start in a claiming race. In no event may a horse start in more than one race per day.
(d)Declarations to start a horse for which an eligibility certificate is not on file at the track may only be accepted by permission of the presiding judge.
(e)The presiding judge shall supervise the drawing of post positions in the presence of such owners, drivers and trainers as may appear.