Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 178 - Racing Commission
Chapter 7884 - HARNESS RACES
Part 7884.0130 - PREFERENCE SYSTEM
Universal Citation: MN Rules 7884.0130
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 39, March 25, 2024
Subpart 1. Association to establish preference system.
Each association shall establish a preference system giving preference dates to horses in all overnight events in accordance with the date of the horse's last previous start in a purse race during the current year as its preference date with the following exceptions:
A. The preference date on a horse that has
drawn to race and has been scratched is the date of the race from which
scratched.
B. When a horse is
racing for the first time in the current year, the date of the first
declaration into a purse race shall be considered its preference
race.
C. Wherever horses have equal
preference in a race, the actual preference of the horses in relation to one
another shall be determined from the most recent previous starts which do not
result in equal preference.
D. When
an overnight race has been reopened because it did not fill, all eligible
horses declared into the race prior to the reopening shall receive preference
over other horses subsequently declared, irrespective of the actual preference
dates.
Subp. 2. [Repealed, 11 SR 543]
Subp. 3. [Repealed, 11 SR 543]
Statutory Authority: MS s 240.23; 240.29
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