The licensee shall appoint a qualified person to act as the
licensee's veterinarian for the race meeting. The licensee's veterinarian shall
possess a full and unrestricted license to practice veterinary medicine from
the Virginia Board of Veterinary Medicine and shall be present within the
enclosure on racing days to perform his duties. The licensee's veterinarian
shall be approved by the commission and shall be designated to work under the
authority and direction of the commission veterinarian. The duties of the
licensee's veterinarian include, but are not limited, to:
1. Performing prerace examinations of horses
entered to race on that day's program and recommending to the stewards that
horses found to be unfit for racing be scratched;
2. Observing horses in the paddock and being
present at the starting gate, where he can recommend to the stewards scratching
any horse that he deems to be unfit for racing;
3. Observing horses after the finish of a
race and upon their leaving the racing surface for injuries or
lameness;
4. Rendering emergency
care to horses injured either in workouts or racing when a practicing
veterinarian is not readily available to perform these services;
5. Assisting the commission veterinarian in
determining horses that are bleeders, either through observing the horse bleed
from the nostrils after a workout or a race, by observing a private
practitioner's endoscopic examination of a horse following a workout or race,
or by retrieving information from other racing jurisdictions;
6. Assisting the commission veterinarian in
the supervision and collection of samples in the test barn;
7. Placing horses on the veterinarian's list
and observing workouts as needed to remove horses from the veterinarian's list;
and
8. Being authorized to humanely
destroy any horse deemed to be so seriously injured that it is in the best
interests of the horse to so act.
Notes
11 Va. Admin. Code §
10-50-40
Derived from
VR662-03-01 § 2.3, eff. December 19, 1990; amended, Virginia Register
Volume 28, Issue 15, eff. April 16, 2012.
Statutory Authority
§ 59.1-369 of the Code of Virginia.