Illinois Administrative Code › Title 8 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part 290 - STANDARDBRED, THOROUGHBRED AND QUARTER HORSE BREEDING AND RACING PROGRAMS, ILLINOIS › Subpart C - THOROUGHBRED DIVISION › Section 290.215 - Illinois Conceived and Foaled Thoroughbred Racing at County Fairs

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) The Illinois
				Horse Racing Act of 1975 provides $75,000 annually for purses to be distributed
				to county fairs that provide for the running of races during each county fair.
				These races will be open to thoroughbreds that are properly registered as
				Illinois conceived and foaled with the Department.
b) The conditions of the races shall be
				developed by the county fair association and reviewed by the Department, with
				the advice and assistance of the Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders Fund Advisory
				Board.
c) County fair associations
				desiring to participate in this program shall file an application for
				participation with the Department on or before February 15 each year.
				Applications are available from the Department. Information as to location,
				date, track surface, and number of permanent horse stalls available must be
				given.
d) The Department may at any
				time order the cancellation of a race or races if funds have been conditionally
				allocated to a fair association and the conditions have not been fulfilled
				prior to opening day of the fair. Any violation of this Subpart shall be just
				cause for denying distribution of fund monies to the county fair and/or the
				money winning horse owners.
e) The
				purse distribution shall be as follows: 50% to the winner; 25% to second; 15%
				to third; and 10% to fourth.
f) The
				president and secretary, or his/her authorized representative, of each county
				fair association claiming the benefit of any distribution from the Illinois
				Thoroughbred Breeders Fund shall file with the Department, within 7 days after
				the last racing day of a county fair, 2 official programs, an affidavit stating
				that this Subparthas been complied with, including the amount of purses put up
				by the county fair, the names and addresses of those owners who are to share in
				the total purse and the amount in which they are to share.
g) The fair association shall appoint a
				Racing Secretary, 3 placing judges, starter and a timer as the officials to
				conduct the races. These officials shall be appointed at least 2 days prior to
				the date of the races. The list of those appointed officials must be submitted
				to the Department no later than 24 hours before the running of the
				races.
h) The Department
				investigator may identify each horse starting in a race by means of description
				on the Jockey Club Certificate and verify Illinois conceived and foaled
				registration.
i) It shall be the
				duty of the 3 judges to conduct the races and their decision shall be final in
				all matters pertaining to the running of the races, including the finishing
				order of horses. All questions pertaining directly to racing arising during the
				program of races at county fairs shall be determined by the judges.
j) It shall be the duty of the Racing
				Secretary to ascertain that the owner of a horse in whose name the horse is
				entered is the last owner of record on the Jockey Club Certificate.
k) The Racing Secretary shall record the
				Illinois conceived and foaled registration number of each Illinois conceived
				and foaled horse competing in the races and furnish this information to the
				Department.
l) No horse shall be
				eligible to be entered in a race that is receiving money from the Illinois
				Thoroughbred Breeders Fund unless the horse has been duly registered as an
				Illinois conceived and foaled thoroughbred. The Illinois registration number
				shall be recorded on the entry blank at the time an entry for a race is
				submitted to the Racing Secretary.
m) In the event that the number of entries to
				any race is in excess of the number of horses that may, because of track
				limitations, be permitted to start, the starters for the race shall be
				determined by lot in the presence of those making entries, and the post
				position shall be in the order in which the starters are drawn. The same method
				shall be used in determining the starters and post positions in case any race
				is divided or split.