Indiana Administrative Code
Title 71 - INDIANA HORSE RACING COMMISSION
Article 5 - LICENSEES
Rule 3 - Trainers
Section 3-3 - Other responsibilities
Universal Citation: 71 IN Admin Code 3-3
Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 4-31-3-9
Affected: IC 4-31
Sec. 3.
(a) A trainer is responsible for the following:
(1)
The condition and contents of stalls, tack rooms, feed rooms, sleeping rooms,
and other areas which have been assigned by the association.
(2) Maintaining the assigned stable area in a
clean, neat, and sanitary condition at all times.
(3) Ensuring that fire prevention rules are
strictly observed in the assigned stable area.
(4) Providing a list to the commission of the
trainer's employees on association grounds and any other area under the
jurisdiction of the commission. The list shall include each employee's:
(A) name;
(B) occupation; and
(C) occupational license number.
The commission shall be notified by the trainer, in writing, within twenty-four (24) hours of any change.
(5) The proper identity, custody, care,
health, condition, and safety of horses in his or her charge, including that
outlined in 71 IAC 8.
(6)
Disclosure of the true and entire ownership of each horse in his or her care,
custody, or control. Any change in ownership shall be reported immediately to,
and approved by, the judges and recorded by the racing secretary.
(7) Training all horses owned wholly or in
part by him or her which are participating at the race meeting.
(8) Registering with the racing secretary
each horse in his or her charge within twenty-four (24) hours of the horse's
arrival on association grounds.
(9)
Using the services of those veterinarians licensed by the commission to attend
horses that are on association grounds. No trainer shall permit a veterinarian
whose license is suspended in any jurisdiction or who is excluded from the
stable area of tracks under the jurisdiction of the commission to treat any
horse, regardless of its location, that has or will be actively participating
in racing in Indiana during a given calendar year.
(10) Immediately reporting the alteration of
the sex of a horse in his or her care to the horse identifier and the racing
secretary, whose office shall note such alteration on the USTA electronic
eligibility.
(11) Promptly
reporting to the racing secretary and the commission veterinarian any horse on
which a posterior digital neurectomy (heel denerving) has been performed and
ensuring that such fact is designated on the USTA electronic
eligibility.
(12) Promptly
reporting to the judges and the commission veterinarian the serious illness of
any horse in his or her charge.
(13) Promptly reporting the death of any
horse in his or her care on association grounds to the judges and the
commission veterinarian and compliance with 71 IAC 8 governing postmortem
examinations.
(14) Maintaining a
knowledge of the medication record and status of all horses in his or her
care.
(15) Immediately reporting to
the judges and the commission veterinarian if he or she knows, or has cause to
believe, that a horse in his or her custody, care, or control has received any
prohibited drugs or medication.
(16) Representing an owner in making entries
and scratches and in all other matters pertaining to racing.
(17) Horses entered as to
eligibility.
(18) Ensuring the
fitness of a horse to perform creditably.
(19) Ensuring that his or her horses are
properly shod, bandaged, and equipped.
(20) Equipment used on a horse shall not
affect the placement of or obstruct the visibility of the head number or saddle
pad.
(21) Presenting his or her
horse in the paddock at the appointed time before the race in which the horse
is entered.
(22) Personally
attending to his or her horses in the paddock or designating a licensee to
attend to the horse in the paddock.
(23) Instructing the driver to give his or
her best effort during a race and that each horse shall be driven to
win.
(24) Attending the collection
of a urine or blood sample from the horse in his or her charge or delegating a
licensed employee or the owner of the horse to do so.
(25) Promptly notifying the owner of a horse
of a positive test or blood gas analysis report performed on his or her horse
indicating levels in violation of 71 IAC 8.
(26) Notifying horse owners upon the
revocation or suspension of his or her trainer's license.
(27) Guard and protect all horses in his or
her care.
(28) Account for fees and
services rendered on behalf of any horse in his or her care to the appropriate
owner or owners.
(29) Determine the
training regimen of all horses in his or her care.
(30) Ensuring that electronic eligibility is
registered with the USTA prior to entry in a race or qualifying race.
(31) Immediately notifying the judges, or in
their absence commission or track security, of any contact a practicing
veterinarian or his or her helper has with a horse within twenty-four (24)
hours of its scheduled race except for the administration of furosemide in
accordance with commission rules.
(b) Upon application by the owner, the judges may approve the transfer of such horses to the care of another licensed trainer, and, upon such approved transfer, such horses may be entered to race.
(c) No trainer shall assign any of his or her duties or responsibilities to any person that is disqualified or ineligible to participate in racing or is not appropriately licensed.
(d) No trainer shall assume any of the above responsibilities for a horse not under his or her active care, custody, and supervision.
(e) No trainer shall practice his profession except under his or her own name.
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