Illinois Administrative Code › Title 11 - ALCOHOL, HORSE RACING, LOTTERY, AND VIDEO GAMING › Part 210 - DEFINITIONS › Section 210.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" - The Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975.
"Age" - The age of a horse shall be recognized from the first
				day of January of the year of foaling.
"Allowance Race" - A race, other than a claiming race, for
				which certain weights and other conditions of eligibility are
				established.
"Also Eligible" - A horse that has been entered in a race but
				is not permitted to start unless the number of entrants is reduced by
				scratches.
"Appeal" - A request for the Board to investigate, consider or
				review any decisions or rulings of the officials of a meeting or the decision
				of the Board itself.
"Applicant" - A person who applies for an organization or
				occupation license in a specified category or categories.
"Authorized Agent" - A person appointed by an owner or trainer
				in accordance with Board rules. The appointment to be made in a document signed
				by the owner or trainer, approved by the Stewards, executed annually and filed
				with the Board.
"Battery" - Any battery, buzzer, electrical, or mechanical
				device or other appliance, except for the ordinary whip, that can be used to
				stimulate or depress a horse or affect its speed in a race or workout.
"Beneficial Interest" - Profit, benefit or advantage resulting
				from a contract or an ownership interest in an estate as distinct from legal
				title or ownership, i.e., an interest as a devisee, legatee or donee solely for
				his or her own use or benefit and not as holder of title for use and benefit of
				another.
"Betting interest" - Horse, entry or field.
"Bleeder" - A horse that is examined by a licensed veterinarian
				following a race or workout and sheds blood from one or both nostrils or upon
				endoscopic examination shows observable amounts of free blood in the
				respiratory tract.
"Breeder" - (Standardbred) The owner of a horse's dam at the
				time of breeding. (Thoroughbred) The owner of the horse's dam at the time of
				foaling.
"Carryover" - The total amount of non-distributed pool money in
				a pool that is retained and added to a corresponding pool in accordance with
				this Part.
"Condition Book" - A booklet published by a thoroughbred racing
				association that sets out the conditions, purses and descriptions of future
				races.
"Condition Sheet" - A listing written by a standardbred racing
				association with the conditions a horse must meet in order to enter a
				particular race.
"Console" - The totalizator status monitor that displays
				current race pool status information.
"Controlled Substance" - Any substance listed in
				21 USC
				812.
"Coupled Entry" - Two or more horses in a race that are treated
				as a single betting interest for pari-mutuel wagering purposes. (Synonymous
				with "Entry")
"Dead Heat" - A race in which two or more horses cross the
				finish line in a tie.
"Declaration" - (Standardbred) The process of entering a horse
				in a particular race. (Thoroughbred) The withdrawal of a horse entered for a
				race after the closing of entries.
"Entry" - A horse made eligible to participate in a race or two
				or more horses entered in the same race when owned or trained by the same
				person or trained in the same stable or by the same management. For
				thoroughbred racing, entries of separate ownership shall be uncoupled.
"Exclusion" - The act of barring from all or part of the
				facilities of a licensee under the jurisdiction of the Board. Unless specified
				in the ruling, an exclusion is unconditional and encompasses all
				facilities.
"Exhibition Race" - A race on which no wagering is
				permitted.
"Financial Interest" - An interest that could result in
				directly or indirectly receiving a pecuniary gain or sustaining a pecuniary
				loss as a result of ownership or interest in a horse or business entity, or as
				a result of salary, gratuity or other compensation or remuneration from any
				person. The lessee and lessor of a horse have financial interests.
"Foreign Substance" - All substances except those that exist
				naturally in the untreated horse of normal physiological concentrations or
				substances, or metabolites thereof that are contained in equine feeds or feed
				supplements but do not contain any pharmacodynamic and/or chemotherapeutic
				agents or pharmaceutical aids.
"Handicap" - (Standardbred) A race in which starting positions
				are assigned on the basis of past performance so as to equalize the chance of
				all horses entered. (Thoroughbred) A race in which the weights carried by the
				entered horses are assigned by the Racing Secretary for the purpose of
				equalizing each horse's respective chance of winning.
"Handle" - The aggregate dollar amount of all pari-mutuel
				pools, excluding refundable wagers.
"Illinois-Bred Colt" or "Illinois-Bred Filly" - A horse sired
				by a stallion owned by an Illinois resident and standing in the State of
				Illinois for the season in which the mare was bred.
"Illinois Foaled" - A horse dropped (born) in Illinois.
"Illinois Owned" - A horse owned by a resident of Illinois at
				the time the horse is declared in to start and at the time of the race.
"Inquiry" - An investigation or examination, conducted by the
				Board or Stewards, of a possible rule violation.
"Laboratory" - The Board's Laboratory or an independent testing
				laboratory contracted by the Board.
"Maiden" - (Standardbred) A horse that has never won a heat or
				race, at the gait it is entered to start, for which a purse was offered.
				(Thoroughbred) A horse that has never earned a winner's purse in a flat race at
				a recognized meeting in any country.
"Minus Pool" - A minus pool occurs when the amount of money to
				be distributed on winning wagers is in excess of the amount of money comprising
				the net pool.
"Net Pool" - The amount of gross wagers less refundable wagers,
				purses, pari-mutuel taxes, surcharges, and statutory commissions.
"Nominator" - The person or entity in whose name a horse is
				nominated for a race or series of races.
"Nomination" - The naming of a horse to a stakes and/or
				handicap race. In a futurity, the naming of a foal in utero to a certain race
				or series of races, eligibility to which is conditioned on the payment of a fee
				at the time of naming and the payment of subsequent sustaining fees and/or
				starting fees.
"Objection" - A claim of foul lodged with the Stewards or their
				designee by a jockey of a horse in a race immediately after a race and before
				the race is made official, or a claim of foul lodged with the patrol judge in a
				starting car, by a driver of a horse in a race, immediately after the race and
				before the driver dismounts. (Synonymous with "Foul Claim" or "Claim of
				Foul")
"Official Order of Finish" - The order of finish of the horses
				in a race as declared official by the Stewards.
"Official Time" - The elapsed time from the moment the first
				horse crosses the starting point until the first horse crosses the finish
				line.
"Outstanding Ticket" - An uncashed winning or refundable
				pari-mutuel ticket that was not redeemed during the performance for which it
				was issued and that must be cashed within the statutory time limit.
"Overnight Event" - A race for which entries close at a time
				set by the racing secretary. (Synonymous with Overnight Race or
				Overnight)
"Owner" - A person that has property rights in a horse, by
				ownership, beneficial interest or lease of a horse.
"Paddock" - An enclosed area in which standardbred horses
				scheduled to compete in a race are confined and thoroughbred horses are saddled
				prior to racing.
"Payout" - The amount of money payable on winning wagers.
				(Synonymous with "Payoff")
"Post" - The place on a race course from which the horses start
				in a race.
"Post Position" - The pre-assigned positions from which the
				horses leave the starting gate.
"Post Time" - The scheduled starting time of a race.
"Prescription Drugs" - Any chemical substance that is
				prohibited from being dispensed by any federal or Illinois law without a valid
				prescription.
"Prima Facie Evidence" - Evidence that, until its effect is
				overcome by other evidence, will suffice as proof of the fact in issue.
"Profit" - The net pool after deduction of the amount wagered
				on the winners.
"Profit Split" - A division of profit among separate winning
				betting interests or winning betting combinations resulting in two or more
				payout prices.
"Program" - The published listing of all races and horses for a
				specific day's racing. The races of a particular day, considered
				together.
"Protest" - An objection lodged with the Stewards of any
				infringement of the rules of racing.
"Purse" - The amount of money won by the owner of any horse in
				a race.
"Qualifying Race" - A race for the purpose of viewing horses
				for speed, racing manners and competitiveness in which no purse money is
				offered and on which no pari-mutuel wagering is conducted.
"Race" - A contest between horses at a licensed meeting for
				purse, stakes, prize or reward. (Synonymous with "Contest")
"Restricted Area" - An area on the facilities where admission
				can be obtained only upon presentation of valid Board credentials. Restricted
				areas shall include, but are not limited to, the stable areas, detention barn,
				jockey or driver room, paddock, race course, Stewards' stand, and pari-mutuel
				department.
"Result" - That part of the official order of finish used to
				determine the pari-mutuel payout pools for each individual race.
"Retention" - The total amount of money, excluding breakage,
				withheld from each pari-mutuel pool, as authorized by statute or rule.
				(Synonymous with "Takeout")
"Scoring" - Preliminary warm-ups by horses.
"Scratch" - The withdrawal of a horse from a race after the
				closing of entries.
"Scratch Time" - The time designated by the organization
				licensee as a deadline for an owner or trainer to file a request for a
				scratch.
"Single Price Pool" - An equal distribution of profit to
				winning betting interests or winning betting combinations through a single
				payout price.
"Stable Name" - The assumed name registered with the Board
				under which a person or stable races horses.
"Stakes Race" - A race that is closed to nominees more than 72
				hours before it is run, with a purse that includes all stakes payments in
				addition to the money added by the organization licensee.
"Starter" -Any horse that starts in a race.
"State Veterinarian" - A veterinarian employed by the
				Board.
"Totalizator System" - A computerized system that is used to
				record wagers, transmit wagering data, and calculate payouts.
"Totalizator System Licensee" - Any person, corporation,
				company, association or any other entity that sells, leases, or operates any
				portion of a totalizator system and is licensed by the Board.
"Vendor" - A seller of feed, medication, stable supplies, or
				other merchandise in restricted areas.
"Veterinarian" - A veterinary practitioner licensed by the
				Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the
				Board.
"Weigh-In" - The presentation of a jockey to the Clerk of
				Scales for weighing after a race.
"Weigh-Out" - The presentation of a jockey to the Clerk of
				Scales for weighing prior to a race.
"Weight for Age" - A race in which a fixed scale is used to
				assign the weight to be carried by individual horses according to age, sex,
				distance of the race, and season of the year.
"Winner" - The horse whose nose reaches the finish line first
				or is placed first through disqualification. If there is a dead heat for first,
				those horses shall be considered winners.