Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 810 - PUBLIC PROTECTION CABINET - KENTUCKY HORSE RACING COMMISSION
Chapter 3 - Licensing
Section 810 KAR 3:001 - Definitions for 810 KAR Chapter 3
Universal Citation: 810 KY Admin Regs Service 3:001
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 horse racing is 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 3.
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)
"Allowance race" means a race in which contestants receive weight allowance
based on performance or winnings as stipulated in the conditions of the
race.
(3) "ARCI" means the
Association of Racing Commissioners International.
(4) "Association" is defined by
KRS
230.210.
(5) "Authorized agent" means in flat racing
any 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.
(6) "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
(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) "Coupled entry" means two
(2) or more horses in a race that are treated as a single betting interest for
pari-mutuel wagering purposes.
(10)
"Day" means any twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending
at midnight.
(11) "Directive" means
an official order issued by the commission or the executive director.
(12) "Draw" means the process of determining
post positions by lot.
(13)
"Driver" means in standardbred racing a person who is licensed to drive a horse
in a race.
(14) "Early closing
race" means in standardbred racing a race for a definite amount of money in
which entries close at least six (6) weeks prior to the race.
(15) "Electronic eligibility" means a
computer-generated eligibility certificate that records a horse's racing
statistics.
(16) "Entry" means the
act of nominating a horse for a race in conformance with KAR Title
810.
(17) "Equipment" means in flat
racing accoutrements other than ordinary saddle, girth, pad, saddle cloth, and
bridle carried by a horse, and includes whip, blinkers, tongue strap, muzzle,
hood, noseband, bit, shadow roll, martingale, breast plate, bandages, boots,
and racing plates or shoes.
(18)
"Horse" means any equine irrespective of age or sex designation and registered
for racing with the applicable breed registry.
(19) "Ineligible" means a horse or person not
qualified under KAR Title 810 or conditions of a race to participate in a
specified racing activity.
(20)
"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.
(21) "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.
(22) "Lessee" means a
licensed owner whose interest in a horse is a leasehold.
(23) "Licensee" means an individual, firm,
association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trustee, or
legal representative that has been duly issued a currently valid license to
participate in racing in the Commonwealth.
(24) "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.
(25) "Mutuel entry"
means a single betting interest involving two (2) or more horses entered in the
same race and joined for pari-mutuel purposes because of common ties as to
ownership or training so that a wager on one (1) horse joined in a mutuel entry
is a wager on all horses joined in the same mutuel entry.
(26) "Nominal change in ownership" means the
sale, pledge, encumbrance, execution of an option agreement, or any other
transfer of less than five (5) percent of the equity securities or other
ownership interest of a partnership, association, corporation, limited
liability company, or other legal entity holding a license issued by the
commission.
(27) "Owner" means any
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.
(28) "Pari-mutuel wagering," "mutuel
wagering", or "pari-mutuel system of wagering" is defined by
KRS
230.210.
(29) "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.
(30) "Purse" means the
gross cash portion of the prize for which a race is run.
(31) "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.
(32) "Racing official" means a racing
commission member, commission staff, as duties require, and all association
racing department employees, as duties require.
(33) "Result" means the part of the official
order of finish in a race used to determine the parimutuel payoff of
pari-mutuel pools.
(34) "Ruled off"
means denial of entrance to premises of any association under jurisdiction of
the commission.
(35) "Rulings"
means all determinations, decisions, or orders of the stewards or of the
commission duly issued in writing and posted.
(36) "Scratch" means the withdrawal of a
horse entered for a race after the time of closing of entries for the
race.
(37) "Simulcasting" is
defined by
KRS
230.210.
(38) "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.
(39) "Substantial change in ownership" means
the sale, pledge, encumbrance, execution of an option agreement, or any other
transfer of five (5) percent or more of the equity securities or other
ownership interest of a partnership, association, corporation, limited
liability company, or other legal entity holding a license issued by the
commission.
(40) "Suspended" means
withdrawal of racing privileges by the stewards or commission.
(41) "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.
(42) "USTA" means the
United States Trotting Association.
(43) "Workout" means in flat racing the
training exercise of a horse on the training track or main track of an
association during which the horse is timed for speed over a specified
distance.
(44) "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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