01-017 C.M.R. ch. 7, § 8 - Preference
Preference shall be given in all overnight events according to a horse's last purse race or successful qualifying race when a horse is racing for the first time in the current year, or drawn in to go during the current year except as provided in Chapter 7, Section 6, subsection 1. In order to ensure proper diversification of racing fields in classes having less than 25 horses available for competition, the racing secretary shall consider two consecutive race dates in the case of equal preference. Otherwise, horses with equal preference shall be drawn by lot. The preference date on a horse that has drawn to race and then was scratched is the date of the race from which it was scratched. When an overnight race has been re-opened because it did not fill, all eligible horses declared into the race prior to the re-opening shall receive preference over other horses subsequently declared regardless of the actual preference dates.
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