Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 810 - PUBLIC PROTECTION CABINET - KENTUCKY HORSE RACING COMMISSION
Chapter 2 - General
Section 810 KAR 2:001 - Definitions for 810 KAR Chapter 2
Universal Citation: 810 KY Admin Regs Service 2:001
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS Chapter 230
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 230.215(2) authorizes the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to regulate conditions under which thoroughbred racing shall be conducted in Kentucky. KRS 230.260(8) authorizes the commission to prescribe necessary and reasonable administrative regulations and conditions under which horse racing at a horse race meeting shall be conducted in this state. This administrative regulation defines the terms used in 810 KAR Chapter 2.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Age" means the number of years since a
horse was foaled, reckoned as if the horse was foaled on January 1 of the year
in which the horse was foaled.
(2)
"Arrears" means sums due by a licensee as reflected by his or her account with
the horsemen's bookkeeper, including subscriptions, jockey fees, driver fees,
forfeitures, and any default incident to KAR Title 810.
(3) "Association" is defined by
KRS
230.210(5).
(4) "Authorized agent" means in flat racing a
person currently licensed as an agent for a licensed owner, jockey, or jockey
apprentice by virtue of notarized appointment of agency filed with the
commission.
(5) "Claiming race"
means a race in which ownership of a horse participating in the race can be
transferred in conformity with
810 KAR 4:050 and
810 KAR
5:030.
(6)
"Closing" means the time published by the association after which entries for a
race are not accepted by the racing secretary.
(7) "Commission" is defined by 810 KAR
6:001.
(8) "Conditions" means
qualifications that determine a horse's eligibility to be entered in a
race.
(9) "Dash" means in
standardbred racing a race in a single trial or in a series of two (2) or three
(3) races governed by one (1) entry fee for the series, in which a horse starts
in all dashes with positions drawn for each dash and the number of purse
distributions or payouts awarded exceeds the number of starters in the
dash.
(10) "Day" means a
twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at
midnight.
(11) "Declaration" means:
(a) In flat racing, the withdrawal of a horse
entered in a race prior to time of closing of entries for the race in
conformance with 810 KAR Chapter 4; or
(b) In standardbred racing, the naming of a
particular horse as a starter in a particular race.
(12) "Disciplinary action" means action taken
by the stewards or the commission for a violation of KRS Chapter 230 or KAR
Title 810 and can include:
(a) Refusal to
issue or renew a license;
(b)
Revocation or suspension of a license;
(c) Imposition of probationary conditions on
a license;
(d) Issuance of a
written reprimand or admonishment;
(e) Imposition of fines or
penalties;
(f) Denial of purse
money; or
(g) Forfeiture of purse
money.
(13)
"Disqualification" means a ruling of the stewards, judges, or the commission
revising the order of finish of a race.
(14) "Draw" means the process of determining
post positions by lot.
(15)
"Driver" means in standardbred racing a person who is licensed to drive a horse
in a race.
(16) "Electronic
eligibility" means a computer-generated eligibility certificate that records a
horse's racing statistics.
(17)
"Entry" means the act of nominating a horse for a race in conformance with KAR
Title 810.
(18) "Equipment" means
in flat racing accoutrements other than ordinary saddle, girth, pad, saddle
cloth, and bridle carried by a horse, and includes riding crop, blinkers,
tongue strap, muzzle, hood, noseband, bit, shadow roll, martingale, breast
plate, bandages, boots, and racing plates or shoes.
(19) "Extended pari-mutuel meeting" means in
standardbred racing a meeting or series of meetings, at which no agriculture
fair is in progress, with an annual total of more than six (6) days duration
and during which pari-mutuel wagering is permitted.
(20) "Field" or "mutuel field" means a single
betting interest involving more than one (1) horse that is not a mutuel
entry.
(21) "Foul" means an action
by a jockey or driver that tends to hinder another jockey, driver, or a horse
in the proper running of the race.
(22) "Handicap" means in standardbred racing
a race in which allowances are made according to a horse's:
(a) Age;
(b) Sex;
(c) Claiming price; or
(d) Performance.
(23) "Handicap race" means in flat racing a
race in which the weights to be carried by the horses are assigned by the
association handicapper with the intent of equalizing the chances of winning
for all horses entered in the race.
(24) "Handle" means the aggregate of all
pari-mutuel pools, excluding refundable wagers.
(25) "Horse" means an equine irrespective of
age or sex designation and registered for racing with the applicable breed
registry.
(26) "Ineligible" means a
horse or person not qualified under KAR Title 810 or conditions of a race to
participate in a specified racing activity.
(27) "Inquiry" means an investigation by the
stewards or judges of a contest prior to declaring the result of the contest
official.
(28) "Jockey" means a
rider currently licensed to ride in races as a jockey, apprentice jockey,
amateur jockey, or a provisional jockey permitted by the stewards to ride in
three (3) races prior to applying for a license.
(29) "Judge" means a duly appointed racing
official with powers and duties established in
810 KAR
2:050 serving at a current meeting in the
Commonwealth.
(30) "Licensed
premises" is defined by
KRS
230.210.
(31) "Licensee" means an individual, firm,
association, partnership, corporation, trustee, or legal representative that
has been duly issued a currently valid license to participate in racing in the
Commonwealth.
(32) "Meeting" means
the entire period of consecutive days, exclusive of dark days, granted by the
commission to a licensed association for the conduct of live horse racing that:
(a) Begins at 10 a.m. of the first racing
day; and
(b) Extends through a
period ending one (1) hour after the last scheduled race of the last
day.
(33) "Month" means
calendar month.
(34) "Nomination"
means a subscription or entry of a horse in a stakes or early closing
race.
(35) "Nominator" means the
person in whose name a horse is entered for a stakes race.
(36) "Objection" means a verbal claim of foul
in a race lodged by the horse's jockey, driver, trainer, or owner before the
race is declared official.
(37)
"Official order of finish" means the order of finish of the horses in a contest
as declared official by the stewards or judges.
(38) "Official time" means the elapsed time
from the moment the first horse crosses the timing beam until the first horse
crosses the finish line.
(39)
"Owner" means a person who holds, in whole or in part, any right, title, or
interest in a horse, or any lessee of a horse, who has been duly issued a
currently valid owner's license as a person responsible for the
horse.
(40) "Pari-mutuel wagering",
"mutuel wagering", or "pari-mutuel system of wagering" is defined by
KRS
230.210.
(41) "Patron" means an individual present at
a track, a licensed premises, or a simulcast facility who observes or wagers on
a live or historical horse race.
(42) "Post" means the starting point of a
race.
(43) "Post position" means
the relative place assigned to each horse, numbered from the inner rail across
the track at the starting line, from which each horse is to start a
race.
(44) "Post time" means the
advertised moment scheduled for the arrival of all horses at the starting point
for a race.
(45) "Prize" means the
combined total of any cash, premium, trophy, and object of value awarded to the
owners of horses according to order of finish in a race.
(46) "Protest" means a written objection
charging that a horse is ineligible to race, alleging improper entry
procedures, or citing any act of an owner, trainer, driver, or official
prohibited by rules, which, if true, would exclude that horse or driver from
racing.
(47) "Purse" means the
gross cash portion of the prize for which a race is run.
(48) "Race" means a running contest between
horses, ridden by jockeys or driven by drivers at a recognized meeting, during
regular racing hours, for a prize.
(49) "Race day" means a period of twenty-four
(24) hours beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at midnight in which live racing
is conducted by an association.
(50) "Racing official" means a racing
commission member, commission staff as duties require, and all association
racing department employees, as duties require.
(51) "Registration certificate" means the
document, racing permit, or virtual certificate issued by the appropriate breed
registry identifying the horse for racing.
(52) "Result" means the part of the official
order of finish in a race used to determine the pari-mutuel payoff of
pari-mutuel pools.
(53) "Rulings"
means determinations, decisions, or orders of the stewards, judges, or of the
commission duly issued in writing and posted.
(54) "Scratch" means the withdrawal of a
horse entered for a race after the time of closing of entries for the race in
conformance with KAR Title 810.
(55) "Scratch time" means the time set by the
racing secretary as a deadline for horsemen to indicate their desire to scratch
out of a race.
(56) "Simulcasting"
is defined by
KRS
230.210.
(57) "Starter" means:
(a) An official who dispatches the horses
from the starting gate; or
(b) A
horse in a race when the starting gate doors open in front of it at the moment
the starter dispatches the horses for the race.
(58) "Steward" means a duly appointed racing
official with powers and duties established in
810 KAR 2:040 serving at
a current meeting in the Commonwealth.
(59) "Subscription" means nomination or entry
of a horse in a stakes race.
(60)
"Suspended" means withdrawal by the steward, judge, or commission of racing
privileges.
(61) "Thoroughbred
racing" is defined by
KRS
230.210.
(62) "Totalizator" means the system,
including hardware, software, communications equipment, and electronic devices
that accepts and processes the cashing of wagers, calculates the odds and
prices of the wagers, and records, displays, and stores pari-mutuel wagering
information.
(63) "Year" means
twelve (12) consecutive months beginning with January and ending with
December.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 230.215(2), 230.260(8)
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