The Race Secretary is responsible for exercising a high
degree of diligence in setting race conditions and developing the race program
for each individual race day, and for the entire meet, in a manner that
benefits all Maine licensees proportionately and fairly. The Race Secretary is
accountable to the Presiding Judge and the Commission for his/her performance.
The Commission may deny, suspend, revoke, refuse or condition the license of
any Race Secretary upon credible evidence indicating that the Race Secretary
has shown favoritism or otherwise failed to diligently uphold the
responsibilities described in this section.
The Race Secretaries duties include, but are not limited
to:
1. Ensuring, to the extent
practicable within the context of the available horse supply, that each race is
as evenly matched and as competitive as possible.
2. Ensuring that conditions sheets are
written such that the lowest classes of horses have a fair and proportionate
opportunity to compete for purses.
3. Ensuring that condition sheets declare the
type of race proposed, such as conditioned, handicapped, free for all,
etc.
4. Obtaining the electronic
eligibility records and, when applicable, the registration certificate of all
horses competing at the racetrack and return same to the owner of a horse or
his/her representative.
5. Checking
each eligibility record and certifying to the Judges as to the eligibility of
all the horses.
6. Being familiar
with the age, class and competitive ability of all horses racing at the
track.
7. Writing conditions sheets
to provide consistent and reasonable opportunity for all common classes of
horses to have a regular opportunity to fairly compete.
8. Scheduling the daily racing programs to be
presented at the racetrack and posting same at least 24 hours before
declarations close. In any event, the original conditions shall not be
changed.
9. Examining all
electronic entries, entry blanks and declarations; verifying all information
set forth therein; selecting the horses to start and the "also eligible" horses
from the declarations in accordance with the rules governing these
functions.
10. Advertising early
closing, late closing, and stake events in accordance with the rules governing
these races.
11. Examining
nominations and declarations in Early Closing, Late Closing and Stake Events;
verifying the eligibility of all declarations and nominations and compiling
lists thereof for publication.
12.
Post a list of all horses that may race only in Free for all, preferred, and
invitational classes at that track, and make that list available to the
Presiding Judge on a weekly basis.
