Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 038 - Wyoming Gaming Commission
Sub-Agency 0001 - Pari-Mutuel
Chapter 8 - CONDUCT OF RACES
Section 8-4 - Engagements and Transfer

Universal Citation: WY Code of Rules 8-4

Current through September 21, 2024

(a) If a horse is sold by private treaty or at public auction, the written acknowledgment of both parties is necessary to prove the fact that he was sold with his engagements, but when a horse is claimed out of a claiming race, the horse's engagements are included. The sale under any circumstances, to a person ruled off or to a disqualified person, shall not give the person the privilege of racing the horse.

(i) No horse entered in a race may be sold or transferred until after the race in which he is entered has been run without permission of the Stewards. Neither shall a horse that is entered be transferred to another trainer until after the race in which he is entered has been run without permission of the Stewards.

(ii) When a horse is sold or transferred, the transfer authorization shall be filled out in triplicate by the Stewards and filed with the Racing Secretary and the Commission. The form to be furnished by the breed association.

(b) Subscriptions and all entries or rights of entry are valid:

(i) When a horse is sold with his engagements transferred.

(ii) When subscriptions, entries and rights of entries survive in the remaining partners in registered partnerships.

(iii) When entries under the decedent's subscription have been made previous to the decedent's death by the transfer of the right of entry.

(c) Subscriptions and all entries or rights of entry under them become void on the death of a subscriber except in cases of registered partnerships or except subject to the sanction of the Stewards when the personal representative of an Estate shall in writing, request that the benefits shall accrue to the Estate of the decedent subscriber for the privilege of transfer, and shall agree to assume any and all obligations incident to the original entries.

(d) In case of any transfer of a horse with its engagements, the horse will not be eligible to start in any stakes, unless at the time of the running of the stakes the transfer of the horse and its engagements can be exhibited to the Racing Secretary.

(e) No person shall make or receive the transfer of a horse or engagement for the purpose of avoiding disqualification.

(f) So long as the name of a person is on the arrears list, no engagements can be transferred or accepted by him, and no horse can be entered by him or under his subscription for any race.

(g) When a seller fails to strike a horse out of an engagement not sold or transferred with the horse, the purchaser is not entitled to start the horse or to the stakes if he wins.

(h) Should a horse be sold with his engagements, or any part of them, the seller cannot strike the horse out of any of the engagements.

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