Indiana Administrative Code
Title 71 - INDIANA HORSE RACING COMMISSION
Article 8.5 - FLAT RACING; HUMAN AND EQUINE HEALTH
Rule 8 - Veterinarian's List
Section 8-1 - Veterinarian's list
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 4-31-3-9
Affected: IC 4-31
Sec. 1.
(a) The official veterinarian shall maintain the veterinarian's list of all horses that are determined to be unfit to compete in a race due to illness, physical distress, unsoundness, injury, infirmity, heat exhaustion, positive test or overage, administration of a medication requiring a mandatory stand down time, administration of shock wave therapy, positive out-of-competition test, or any other assessment or determination by the regulatory veterinarian that the horse is unfit to race.
(b) A horse on the veterinarian's list is ineligible to start until it has been removed from the list by the official veterinarian or racing veterinarian in the jurisdiction that placed it on the list, except when removal from the list is prevented by unavoidable administrative issues. When removal from the list is prevented by administrative issues, the horse may be permitted to start with the approval of the track veterinarian and the stewards.
(c) A horse that is on the veterinarian's list may be entered to race only if one (1) of the following conditions is met:
(d) A horse shall not be released from the veterinarian's list until a minimum of five (5) days has passed from the time the horse was placed on the veterinarian's list.
(e) A horse placed on the veterinarian's list for being unfit to compete in a race due to illness, physical distress, unsoundness, injury, infirmity, heat exhaustion, or any other assessment or determination by the regulatory veterinarian shall be released from the list only after the following have been met:
(f) A horse placed on the veterinarian's list for a positive test or overage, administration of a medication requiring a mandatory stand down time, administration of shock wave therapy, positive out-of-competition test, or any other veterinary assessment or administrative determination shall be released from the list only after the following have been met:
(g) Horses having generated a positive finding in a biological sample collected pursuant to this section shall not be released from the veterinarian's list until generating a negative test.