Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3769 - State Racing Commission
Chapter 3769-17 - Owner and Driver Rules; Violations
Section 3769-17-20 - Breaking
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3769-17-20
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) When any horse breaks from their gait, the driver shall at once, where clearance exists, take the horse to the outside and pull it to its gait. The driver may take the horse inside the pylons if clearance to the outside does not exist.
(1) The following shall be considered
violations of paragraph (A) of this rule:
(a)
Failure to properly attempt to pull horse to its gait;
(b) Failure to take to the outside where
clearance exists or inside if clearance to the outside does not
exist;
(c) Failure to
continuously lose ground by the break.
(2) If there has been no failure
on the part of the driver in complying with paragraph (A) of this rule, the
horse shall not be set back unless a contending horse on his gait is lapped on
the hind quarter of the breaking horse at the finish. The judges may or may not
set back a horse who is off stride at the finish, if in their discretion, the
horse was off stride due to interference.
(3) The judges may set any horse back one or
more places if in their judgement any of the above violations have been
committed.
(4) Any horse making a
break in two successive starts on a good or fast track, excluding winning
performances, shall be placed on the
judges'
list.
(B) Any horse making a break which causes interference to other contesting horses, may be placed behind any or all offended horses.
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