RELATES TO:
KRS
230.215,
230.240,
230.260
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
230.215(2) and
230.260(8)
authorize the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (the "commission") to promulgate
administrative regulations prescribing conditions under which all horse racing
is conducted in Kentucky. This administrative regulation establishes the
qualifications, duties, powers, and responsibilities of racing
officials.
Section 1. Racing
Officials.
(1) Racing officials at a
thoroughbred or other flat race meeting shall include:
(a) Steward;
(b) Racing secretary;
(c) Assistant racing secretary;
(d) Clerk of scales;
(e) Paddock judge;
(f) Starter;
(g) Placing judge;
(h) Timer;
(i) Identifier;
(j) Veterinarian;
(k) Assistant starter;
(l) Jockey room custodian;
(m) Jockey room employee;
(n) Valet; and
(o) Outrider.
(2) Persons appointed by the association to
serve as racing officials during a race meeting shall:
(a) First be approved by the
commission;
(b) Serve only so long
as approved by the commission; and
(c) Be under the supervision of the
stewards.
(3) While
serving as a racing official, a person shall not:
(a) Indirectly or directly, own a beneficial
interest in:
1. A horse of the breed in which
the person is engaged as a racing official; or
2. An association under his or her
supervision;
(b) Cause
to be bought or sold, for himself or another, a horse under his or her
supervision;
(c) Buy or sell, for
himself or another, a right to, or contract with, a jockey or apprentice jockey
under his or her supervision;
(d)
Wager on a race under his or her supervision;
(e) Write or solicit horse insurance;
or
(f) Have a monetary interest in
a business which seeks the patronage of horsemen or racing
associations.
(4) A
racing official serving in the capacity of steward, placing judge, clerk of
scales, starter, or horse identifier shall take and satisfactorily pass an
optical examination within one (1) year prior to the race meeting at which he
or she serves. The examination shall show corrected twenty-twenty (20-20)
vision and an ability to distinguish colors correctly.
(5) A racing official who desires to leave
his or her employment during the race meeting shall notify the stewards; if a
vacancy occurs among racing officials other than stewards, the association
shall promptly appoint a successor, subject to approval of the commission. If
the association does not appoint a successor in time to permit the orderly
conduct of racing, then the stewards shall immediately appoint a temporary
successor.
(6) A racing official
shall not officiate in multiple capacities on any one (1) race. The stewards
may, in case of emergency, approve a racing official to serve in more than one
(1) capacity until such time as an additional official can be appointed by the
association and approved by the commission.
Section 2. Racing Secretary. The racing
secretary shall be responsible for:
(1) The
programming of races during the race meeting;
(2) Compiling and publishing condition
books;
(3) Assigning weights for
handicap races;
(4) Receiving
entries, subscriptions, declarations, and scratches;
(5) Safekeeping of registration certificates,
virtual or digital certificates, and racing permits for horses, recording
information required on the certificates and permits, and returning the
certificates and permits to owners at the conclusion of the race
meeting;
(6) Maintaining a record
of stakes fees received, arrears, jockeys' fees, purchase money in claiming
races, and other monies received incident to the race meeting, and making
available payment to those persons entitled thereto within fourteen (14) days
after the conclusion of the race meeting;
(7) Supervision of the horsemen's
bookkeeper's handling of the "horseman's account";
(8) Daily posting of entries for the benefit
of the public as soon as possible after entries have been closed and
declarations have been made;
(9)
Assigning stall applicants stabling as he or she may deem proper after
consultation with the stewards, and maintaining a record of arrival and
departure of all horses stabled on association grounds; and
(10) Publishing the official daily program,
and ensuring that it contains accurate information of the following:
(a) Sequence of races to be run and post time
for the first race;
(b) Purse,
conditions, and distance for each race, and current track record for the
distance;
(c) The full name of
licensed owners of each horse, indicated as lessee if applicable, and
description of racing colors to be carried;
(d) The full name of the trainer and the
jockey named for each horse together with the weight to be carried;
(e) Notices that:
1. Jockeys will carry approximately three (3)
pounds more than the published weight to account for safety helmets and safety
vests that are not included in required weighing out procedures; and
2. Upon approval of the stewards, a jockey
may be allowed up to three (3) pounds additional clothing and equipment for
inclement weather or track conditions;
(f) The saddle cloth number or designation
for each horse, and the post position for each horse, if there is a variance
with the saddle cloth designation;
(g) Identification of each horse by name,
color, sex, age, sire, and dam; and
(h) Other information as may be requested
from time to time by the association or the commission including changes of
equipment, use of permitted race day medications, and wagering types
available.
Section
3. Clerk of Scales. The clerk of scales shall be responsible for:
(1) The security, regulation, and control of
the jockeys' room, its equipment, and the determination of which personnel are
permitted access;
(2) Weighing out
a jockey no later than fifteen (15) minutes prior to the race in which the
jockey is scheduled to ride and recording all overweights, which shall
immediately be posted and announced to the public before each race;
(3) Weighing in a jockey immediately after
the finish of each race in which the jockey rode and promptly notifying the
stewards whether a jockey weighed in underweight;
(4) Safekeeping of all racing
colors;
(5) Reporting all color
changes or jockey changes from that listed in the official daily program and
causing the changes to be posted and announced to the public before each
race;
(6) Supervision of all valets
and the issuance of numbered saddle cloths and equipment for each
horse;
(7) Ensuring accuracy of the
scales and periodic tests of them;
(8) Submitting to the racing secretary at the
close of each racing day a statement of weight carried in each race by each
jockey, noting overweight, if any; and
(9) Immediately transmitting all complaints,
protests, objections, or disputes submitted to the clerk of scales to the
stewards, and if the stewards are unavailable, to the commission.
Section 4. Paddock Judge. The
paddock judge shall have general supervision of the paddock and shall be
responsible for:
(1) Assembling the horses
and jockeys in the paddock no later than fifteen (15) minutes before the
scheduled post time for each race;
(2) Maintaining a written record of all
equipment for each horse saddled, inspecting all the equipment, and reporting
any changes in the equipment to the stewards;
(3) Inspecting the bandages of each horse.
The paddock judge may order the bandages removed or replaced;
(4) Paddock schooling of horses approved for
schooling by the stewards; and
(5)
Ensuring that the saddling of horses is orderly, open to public view and free
from interference, and ensuring that horses are mounted at the same time and
leave the paddock for the post in proper sequence.
Section 5. Starter.
(1) The starter shall be responsible for the
fair and equal start of horses in a race at the scheduled starting time by
means of a starting gate and bell, or other device activated by his or her
signal.
(2) So far as practical,
the starter shall cause horses to be loaded in order of post position, except
the starter may in his or her discretion load an unruly or fractious horse out
of order or may start the unruly or fractious horse on the outside of the
starting gate and one (1) length behind the starting line. With permission of
the stewards, a race may be started without a starting gate. The starter may
employ as many assistant starters as needed and shall daily change the gate
position of each assistant starter without notice to the assistant starters
until the field for the first race comes upon the track.
(3) A horse shall not be permitted to start
in a race unless approval is given by the starter. The starter shall maintain a
schooling list that shall be posted in the racing secretary's office listing
the names of horses ineligible to start due to inadequate training at leaving
the gate. Horses shall be schooled under the supervision of the starter or his
or her assistants.
(4) The starter
shall:
(a) Have constant radio or telephone
communication with the stewards from the time the horses leave the paddock
until the field is sent away;
(b)
Report to the stewards any disobedience of his or her orders or attempts to
take unfair advantage at the starting gate and recommend penalties for
offenders.
(5) An
assistant starter shall not handle a horse until instructed to do so by the
starter.
(6) A starter or assistant
starter shall not:
(a) Accept a gratuity or
payment other than his regular salary, directly or indirectly, for services in
starting a race;
(b) Wager on a
race; or
(c) Strike a jockey or use
abusive language to a jockey.
(7) The starter shall maintain a written
record showing the names of starters during the day and the names of the
assistant starters who handled each horse. This record shall be made available
to the stewards upon request.
Section
6. Placing Judges.
(1) Three (3)
placing judges shall occupy a stand directly above the finish line during the
running of each race. The placing judges shall:
(a) Take special note of racing colors and
distinguishing equipment carried by each horse;
(b) Determine the order of the horses as they
cross the finish line by consideration of the respective noses of the horses;
and
(c) Cause the numbers of the
first four (4) horses to cross the finish line to be posted on the result
board. The numbers of additional horses shall be posted in their correct order
of finish if necessitated by an exotic wager.
(2) A photo finish camera approved by the
commission shall be used as an aid by the placing judges in determining the
order of the horses as they cross the finish line. Placing judges may request a
photo to assist in determining margins of less than a half-length
(1/2).
Section 7. Timer.
(1) The timer shall occupy a stand directly
above the finish line during the running of each race to record the official
time.
(2) The timer shall:
(a) Record the fractional time of leading
horses during each race and the final time of the first horse to cross the
finish line; and
(b) Maintain a
written record of fractional and final times of each race and have them
available for inspection by the stewards or commission on request.
(3) The timer may use an
electrical or mechanical timing device approved by the commission as an aid in
determining the official time of each race.
Section 8. Horse Identifier.
(1) The commission may employ a horse
identifier who shall be responsible for the proper identification of all horses
entered to be raced.
(2) The horse
identifier may accompany the commission veterinarian on the prerace examination
of all starters.
(3) The horse
identifier shall:
(a) Certify that each
starter in the paddock matches its registration certificate, virtual or digital
certificate, or racing permit by examining the horse's:
1. Sex, age, color, markings, and lip tattoo
or microchip; and
2. Photographs as
an aid in identification.
(b) Notify the paddock judge and the stewards
if he or she has any doubt as to the identity of a horse entered to be
raced;
(c) Be responsible for the
safekeeping and return to owners at the conclusion of the race, the following:
1. Registration certificates, virtual or
digital certificates, or racing permits; and
2. Racing permits for horses; and
(d) Record information from
registration certificates, virtual or digital certificates, and racing
permits.