Code of Massachusetts Regulations
205 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION
Title 205 CMR 4.00 - Rules of Horse Racing
Section 4.16 - Jockey Agents

(1) Each Jockey agent must obtain a license from the Commission.

(2) Jockey agents will pay only one license fee in any calendar year.

(3) The Stewards may permit an applicant to act pending decision of his or her application for a license.

(4) A jockey agent may represent up to two jockeys and one apprentice, providing the conditions justify and upon approval of the Stewards.

(5) No jockey agent shall make or assist in the making of any engagement for any rider other than those that he or she is licensed to represent.

(6) If, for good reasons, a jockey agent is short of his or her permissible quota ofjockeys and wishes to take on the task of making engagements for a rider not named in his or her license, he or she must obtain permission from the Stewards and the Commission before making any such engagements.

(7) If any jockey agent gives up the making of engagements for any rider he or she shall immediately notify the Stewards, the Commission and the racing secretary; and he or she shall also turn over to the Stewards a list of any unfilled engagements he or she may have made for that rider.

(8) A jockey agent may charge a jockey or apprentice for each mount obtained by him or her, but shall receive no recompense for engagements made by the rider himself or herself or by his or her contract employer.

(9) Each jockey agent shall keep, on a form provided by the Association a record by races of all engagements made by him or her or by others, for the jockeys he or she is handling. Calls shall be numbered in the order of their priority whenever more than one is given for any rider in any race. This record must be kept up to date and held ready at all times for inspection by the Stewards or the racing secretary.

(11) No person other than a jockey agent in good standing shall make engagements for an apprentice jockey or jockey. However, a jockey not represented by an agent may make his or her own engagements.

(12) The Stewards in the light of the records submitted by the j ockey agent will adjust all rival claims for the service of a rider and first call shall have priority.

(13) A jockey agent shall not give to anyone directly or indirectly, any information nor advice, or engage in the practice commonly known as "touting," for the purpose of influencing any person, or that would tend to do so, in the making of a wager on the result of any race.

(14) Any agent who falsifies his or her record shall be penalized by the revocation of his or her license and any agent penalized shall be ineligible for another license for a term of 12 months from the day of the revocation.

(15) Jockey agents will be called upon to explain rival claims for any mount or for any rider and inability to satisfy the Stewards that the rival claim arose through honest bona fide error shall be considered a falsification of records.

(16) Jockey agents shall not be allowed in the paddock at any time.

(17) Under no circumstances shall a jockey agent be permitted within the saddling enclosure during racing hours nor shall said agent have access to the jockey quarters at any time; nor said agent be allowed on the track proper at the conclusion of any race run; nor shall said agent communicate with any jockey during racing hours.