Virginia Administrative Code
Title 11 - GAMING
Agency 10 - VIRGINIA RACING COMMISSION
Chapter 50 - RACING OFFICIALS
Part II - Personnel
Section 11VAC10-50-40 - Licensee's veterinarian

1. Performing prerace examinations of horses entered to race on that day's program and recommending to the stewards that horses found to be unfit for racing be scratched;

2. Observing horses in the paddock and being present at the starting gate, where he can recommend to the stewards scratching any horse that he deems to be unfit for racing;

3. Observing horses after the finish of a race and upon their leaving the racing surface for injuries or lameness;

4. Rendering emergency care to horses injured either in workouts or racing when a practicing veterinarian is not readily available to perform these services;

5. Assisting the commission veterinarian in determining horses that are bleeders, either through observing the horse bleed from the nostrils after a workout or a race, by observing a private practitioner's endoscopic examination of a horse following a workout or race, or by retrieving information from other racing jurisdictions;

6. Assisting the commission veterinarian in the supervision and collection of samples in the test barn;

7. Placing horses on the veterinarian's list and observing workouts as needed to remove horses from the veterinarian's list; and

8. Being authorized to humanely destroy any horse deemed to be so seriously injured that it is in the best interests of the horse to so act.