Mich. Admin. Code R. 431.4270 - Breaking
Rule 4270.
(1)
When any horse breaks from its gait in trotting or pacing, its driver shall at
once, where clearance exists, take the horse to the outside and pull it to its
gait.
(2) Any of the following
conduct is a violation of this rule:
(a)
Failure to properly attempt to pull the horse to its gait.
(b) Failure to take to the outside where
clearance exists.
(c) Failure to
lose sufficient ground by the break.
(3) If a contending horse on its gait is
lapped on the hind quarter of the breaking horse at the finish, the breaking
horse shall be set back.
(4) The
stewards may set any horse back 1 or more places if, in their judgment, any of
the conduct specified in subrule (2) of this rule has occurred.
(5) If, in the opinion of the stewards, a
driver allows his or her horse to break for the purpose of fraudulently losing
a heat, the driver shall be subject to disciplinary action.
(6) One of the stewards shall call out every
break made, and the clerk shall at once note, in writing, the break and the
character of the break.
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