New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 70 - HORSE RACING
Subchapter 29 - MUTUELS
Section 13:70-29.47 - Exacta

(a) No exacta wagering shall be conducted without permission of the New Jersey Racing Commission. The races in which exacta type pari-mutuel wagering will be permitted shall be only those designated by the Commission and separate pools shall be established therefor.

(b) In order to win an exacta, it is necessary for the purchaser of an exacta ticket to select the winning horse and the horse finishing second in the race in which exacta type wagering is permitted. If either of the selections made by the purchaser fails to finish in the position designated by the purchaser when purchasing the exacta ticket, then the contract is void except as hereinafter provided.

(c) Should there be a dead heat for the first place in an exacta race, holders of tickets on those two horses involved, and only those two horses, will share in the exacta pay-off. Should there be a dead heat to place, both horses involved shall share in the pool with the winner of the exacta race.

(d) If no ticket is sold combining the two winners of the exacta, the pool shall then be apportioned equally between those having tickets including the winner of the race and those having tickets including the horse finishing second in the race in the same manner in which a place pool is calculated.

(e) In the event any horse or horses in the exacta should be excused by the racing official after the horses shall have left the paddock for the post, or after the betting on the exacta has been closed, or should any horse or horses in the exacta be prevented from racing because of failure of the arm or arms of the starting gate to open, the money wagered on any horse or horses so excused or prevented from racing shall be deducted from the exacta pool and refunded to the purchaser or purchasers of tickets on the horse or horses so excused from racing.

(f) Entries shall be allowed in an exacta race. "Fields" are permitted in an exacta race. If two or more horses in an exacta race are listed as "field" on the same totalisator ticket, there shall be no refunds, unless all the horses so listed are excused before off-time.

(g) In exacta races with a coupled entry or mutuel field, the numbers of the first two horses in order of finish as made official shall constitute the winning exacta combination except that where two or more of these horses are part of the same coupled entry or mutuel field, only the best finishing position attained by the coupled entry or mutuel field shall be considered for exacta payoff purposes and the next best finishing horse or horses, not part of the same coupled entry or mutuel field, shall be determined to comprise the winning exacta combination. Should any horse not part of any coupled entry or mutuel field finish in a dead heat for second place with a horse that is part of the same coupled entry or mutuel field as the first-place finishing horse, the winning exacta combination shall consist of the first-place coupled entry or mutual field with said dead heated horse.