Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 12 - Taxation › 574-A - The Operation of Thoroughbred Racing except as noted › Section 12-574-A49 - Entries, subscriptions, declarations and acceptances for races

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Stewards ruling accepted
.
			 Every person subscribing to a sweepstake or entering a horse in a race to be
			 run under this section accepts the decision of the stewards or the decision of
			 the commission, as the case may be, on any question relating to a race or to
			 racing.
(b)
Entries may be
			 cancelled, revoked
. The nominations or entries of any person or the
			 transfer of any nomination or entry may be cancelled or revoked without notice
			 by the racing association or in the discretion of the commission or of the
			 stewards.
(c)
Horse must be
			 entered
. A horse is not qualified to run in any race unless he is duly
			 entered for that race.
(d)
Disqualification, ownership
. No horse is qualified to be entered
			 or run which is wholly or partly the property of or leased to or from, or in
			 any way under the care or superintendence of, a disqualified person.
			 Disqualification of a husband or wife from racing horses applies equally to
			 both.
(e)
Disqualification,
			 improper practice
. Any horse which has been the subject of improper
			 practice may be disqualified for such time and for such races as the stewards
			 shall determine.
(f)
Procedure for making entries
. Entries and declarations shall be
			 made in writing signed by the owner of the horse or of the engagement or by his
			 authorized agent; and in order to secure privacy all entries to overnight races
			 must be made at a specially designated booth.
(g)
Entries made by telegraph,
			 telephone
. Entries and declarations by telegraph or by telephone, if the
			 telephone conversation is recorded, are binding if promptly confirmed in
			 writing.
(h)
Entrance money
			 not returned
. Entrance money is not returned on the death of a horse nor
			 on his failure to start, whatever be the cause of the failure.
(i)
Entries to be posted
.
			 Entries to all races, excepting those races which are opened and decided during
			 the meeting, shall be posted on the bulletin boards at the track where meeting
			 is being held.
(j)
Limitations on entries
.
(1) A
			 horse of a partnership cannot be entered or run in the name, whether real or
			 stable, of an individual partner unless that individual's interest or property
			 in the racing qualities of that horse is equal to at least twenty-five (25)
			 percent.
(2) All horses owned
			 wholly or in part by the same person or the spouse of any such person or
			 trained by the same trainer must be coupled and run as an entry.
(3) Not more than two horses trained by the
			 same person shall be drawn into any overnight race, or on the also-eligible
			 list, to the exclusion of another horse.
(4) For the purposes of rule (j) (2) of this
			 section, a horse shall be deemed owned wholly or in part by a particular person
			 or owned by a particular person if that person holds the entire property
			 interest in the horse or if, by lease or ownership, he controls the racing
			 qualities of the horse or if he holds a proportionate interest of twenty-five
			 (25) percent or more in a partnership which either holds the property interest
			 in the horse or, by lease or ownership controls the racing qualities of the
			 horse.