205 CMR 3.11 - General Rules
(1) The definitions
and interpretations of racing terms, heretofore set forth as well as
205 CMR 3.01, are to be
considered in connection with
205 CMR
3.00 and as part of
205 CMR
3.00.
(2)
All owners and trainers of horses and their stable employees are subject to
M.G.L. c. 128A and
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3.00 immediately upon acceptance and occupancy of
stabling accommodations from or approved by an Association or upon making entry
to run on its track.
(3) Owners,
trainers and stable employees shall abide by M.G.L. c. 128A and
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3.00 and accept the decision of the Judges on any and
all questions to which their authority extends, subject to their right of
appeal to the Commission.
(4) Every
person participating in and every patron of a licensed Race Meeting shall abide
by M.G.L. c. 128A and
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3.00, and accept the Judges' decisions on any and all
questions to which their authority extends, subject to the right of appeal to
the Commission.
(5) Every person
who drives a horse on a track licensed by the Commission, whether exercising,
warming up or driving in a race shall wear a protective helmet that meets the
Safety Standards of The Association of Racing Commissioners
International Model Rules of Racing version 6.1, July, 2015.
(6) For the period of two hours before post
time of the first race of the day and until the racing program of the day has
been completed, every person who drives a horse on a track licensed by the
Commission, whether warming up for a race or driving in a race shall wear his
or her registered colors, which must be distinguishable at all times.
(7) No person shall use improper, profane or
indecent language to a racing official.
(8) No person shall in any manner, or at any
time, disturb the peace or make himself or herself obnoxious on the grounds of
the Association.
(9) Any person,
who participates in an unrecognized meeting anywhere, either as a racing
official or as an owner, trainer or driver, may be adjudged guilty of conduct
detrimental to racing.
(10) No
person or horse ruled off, or under full suspension by the United States
Trotting Association shall be admitted to the grounds of any
Association.
(11) No person, other
than an official of the Commission, shall be allowed in the Judges' Stand; the
space occupied by the Clerk of Course; the Timers Stand; and the space occupied
by the Program Director and his or her assistants for the period from ½
hour before post time of the first race of the day until the last race has been
declared "official" unless permission is obtained from the Judges for each
entry. Associations shall take such steps as are necessary to assist the Judges
in carrying out the provisions of 205 CMR 3.11(11).
(12) Any person who has been convicted by any
court anywhere for illegal possession, sale or giving away of narcotics may be
ruled off.
(13) If any owner,
trainer, driver, stable employee, or other person solicit bets from the public
by correspondence or other methods, to be made on any horse which is to run on
a track in Massachusetts, such person or persons shall be ruled off.
(14) When a person is ruled off a course or
suspended, every horse owned in whole or part by him or her shall be ineligible
to be entered or to start in any race until said horse has been reinstated
either by the rescinding of his or her owner's penalty or his or her transfer
through bona fide sale to an ownership acceptable to the
Judges.
(15) When a person is
suspended by the Judges of the meeting "from driving only" the ruling of the
Judges shall state whether or not the person suspended shall have the privilege
of the paddock during the period of his or her suspension.
(16) When a person is ruled off a course or
suspended, any horse which is under his or her care, management, training or
superintendence shall not be qualified to be entered or to start in any race
until said horse has been reinstated by the rescinding of said person's penalty
or by the placement of the horse in the hand of a licensed trainer and the
approval of the transfer by the Judges.
(17) When a person is ruled off a course or
suspended, he or she shall not be qualified, whether acting as agent or
otherwise to subscribe for or to enter or run any horse in any race either in
his or her own name or in that of any other person until the rescinding of that
person's penalty.
(18) Any horse
that has been the subject of fraudulent practice may be disqualified.
(19) When a person is ruled off for any
fraudulent practice in relation to a particular horse, wholly or partly
belonging to him or her, he or she shall return all money or prizes that such
horse has fraudulently won.
(20)
Violators of any rule will be subject to ejection from the grounds, and/or to
forfeiture, suspension or ruling off.
(21) Complaints against a racing official
other than a judge or his or her assistant shall be made to the judges in
writing and be signed by the complainant. Complaints against a judge shall be
made in writing to the Commission and be signed by the complainant.
(22) Printed for each racing day shall be a
program compiled by the Program Director which shall contain the names of the
horses that are to run in the races for that day, these names to appear in the
order of their post positions, the said position to be designated by numerals
placed at the left and in line with the name of the horses in each race, which
shall also be prominently displayed on each horse. The program shall also
contain, in addition to the horse's name, its sex, color, age, sire and dam;
the owner's name and address; the name of the trainer; the driver's name, date
of birth, and colors; class and/or sub-group of race; as many performance lines
of the current or preceding year as the USTA deems appropriate; an indication
if the driver is racing with a provisional license, and any other useful
information approved by the judges.
(23) Before a horse may go an official time
workout before the Judges, he or she must first be posted in the entry room of
the Association as being classified in the preferred or invitational category
at the current meeting in progress.
(24) Every Racing Association, the Commission
or Judges investigating for violations of
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3.00 shall have the right to permit persons authorized
by any of them to search the person, or enter and search the building, stables,
room, vehicles or other places within the grounds of the Association or at
other places where horses which are eligible to race are kept together with the
personal property and effects contained therein. Every licensed person or
person permitted to pursue his or her occupation or employment within the
grounds or any Association by accepting his or her license or such permission
does thereby irrevocably consent to such search as aforesaid and waive and
release all claims or possible actions for damages that he or she may have by
virtue of any action taken under
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3.00.
(25)
No licensee or other person under the jurisdiction of the Commission shall
subject or permit any animal under his or her control, custody or supervision
to be subjected to or to incur any form of cruelty, mistreatment, neglect or
abuse or abandon, injure, maim or kill or administer any noxious substance to
or deprive any animal of necessary care or sustenance, shelter or veterinary
care.
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