Sec. 20.
(a) A
permit holder must specify how many entries are required for overnight events
and, after the condition is fulfilled, the event must be contested except when
declared off as provided under section 31 of this rule. Requirements to start a
race shall be as follows:
(1) In early
closing events or late closing events, if five (5) or more horses are declared
in to start, the race must be contested unless otherwise specified in the race
conditions of the early closing or late closing event.
(2) A permit holder may require five (5)
betting interests to start. Stakes and futurities must be raced if one (1) or
more horses are declared in to start.
(3) In an early closing event, if fewer
horses are declared in than are required to start, and all declares are
immediately so notified, the horse or horses declared in and ready to race
shall be entitled to all the entrance money and any forfeits from each horse
named.
(b) Requirements
for elimination heats or two (2) divisions are at the racing secretary's
discretion unless specified in the conditions. Where a race other than a stake
or futurity is divided, each division must race for at least seventy-five
percent (75%) of the advertised purse.
(c) Requirements for elimination plans shall
be as follows:
(1) Whenever elimination heats
are required, or specified in the published conditions, such race shall be
raced in the following manner unless conducted under another section of this
rule:
(A) The field shall be divided by lot,
and the first division shall race a qualifying dash for thirty percent (30%) of
the purse.
(B) The second division
shall race a qualifying dash for thirty percent (30%) of the purse and the
horses so qualified shall race in the main event for forty percent (40%) of the
purse.
(C) The winner of the main
event shall be the race winner.
(2) In the event there are more horses
declared to start than can be accommodated by the two (2) elimination dashes,
then there will be added enough elimination dashes to take care of the excess.
The percent of the purse raced for each elimination dash will be determined by
dividing the number of elimination dashes into sixty (60). The main event will
race for forty percent (40%) of the purse.
(3) Unless the conditions provide otherwise,
if there are two (2) elimination dashes, the first four (4) finishers in each
dash qualify for the final. If three (3) or more elimination dashes are
required, not more than three (3) horses will qualify for the final from each
qualifying dash.
(4) The judges
shall draw positions in which the horses are to start in the main event to
determine:
(A) which of the two (2) dash
winners shall have the pole, and which the second position;
(B) which of the two (2) horses that have
been second will start in third position; and
(C) which of the two (2) horses that have
been third will start in fourth position;
and continue in this pattern until all horses have been
drawn. All elimination dashes and the concluding heat must be programmed to be
raced upon the same day or night, unless special provisions for earlier
elimination dashes are set forth in the conditions.
(5) In the event there are three
(3) separate heat or dash winners and they alone come back in order to
determine the race winner according to the conditions, they will take post
positions according to the order of their finish in the previous heat or
dash.
(d) Where
elimination races are provided in the conditions of an early closing event,
stake, or futurity, such elimination race must be held not more than five (5)
days prior to contesting the main event (excluding Sunday) and omitting the day
of the race.
