Arizona Administrative Code › Title 19 - ALCOHOL, HORSE AND DOG RACING, LOTTERY, AND GAMING › Chapter 2 - ARIZONA RACING COMMISSION › Article 1 - HORSE RACING › Section R19-2-113 - Entries and Subscriptions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A.
				Entry.
1. An owner, trainer, or authorized
				agent shall not register a horse for racing under this Chapter unless the horse
				is registered by the Jockey Club, American Quarter Horse Association, Arabian
				Horse Club Registry of America, Inc., Appaloosa Horse Club Inc., American Paint
				Horse Association, American Donkey and Mule Society, or American Mule
				Association.
2. An owner, trainer,
				or authorized agent shall list each person with an ownership interest in a
				horse on the back of the horse's registration papers.
3. An owner, trainer, or authorized agent may
				enter a horse in person, by telephone or telegram, or in writing.
4. An owner, trainer, or authorized agent
				shall declare at the time of entry whether the jockey will carry a
				whip.
5. A person shall not enter a
				horse in a race unless the horse is eligible in all aspects at the time of
				entry, except with permission of the stewards.
6. The stewards shall
				assume a horse entered for a purse is a starting horse unless the stewards
				declare the horse out of the race.
7. A person nominating
				a horse in a stakes race shall write the person's full name, mailing address,
				and telephone number on the nomination form.
8. A person shall not
				enter a horse in more than one race in one day.
9. An owner shall not
				transfer a horse to a new trainer after entry.
10. An owner shall not
				enter a horse unless the horse's performance records for the preceding calendar
				year :
a. Are printed in the Daily Racing
				Form Monthly Chart Book, or
b. The
				owner provides the horse's performance records to the racing secretary before
				entry.
11. An owner, trainer, or authorized agent shall sign
				and certify a horse's performance record and shall provide the following
				information for the horse's last four races to ensure that all of the horse's
				races are in the record:
a. Where and when
				the horse raced;
b. The distance,
				weight carried, and amount earned; and
c. The finishing position and time of the
				race.
12. If a race overfills, the racing secretary shall
				ensure that the second half of an entry has no starting preference over a
				single entry except in stakes, handicap, and qualifying races.
13.
				An owner entering two or more horses in a race shall indicate the owner's
				preference for the horse that is to start if the race overfills. The owner
				shall make the claim of preference by noting the preference on the entry blank.
				An owner who fails to make a claim of preference loses the
				preference.
14. The racing
				secretary shall ensure that a horse excluded because a race overfills receives
				no consideration.
15. Two or more horses
				entered in a race may be uncoupled for wagering purposes if approved by the
				stewards, and:
a. All horses are owned, in
				whole or in part, by the same person; or
b. All horses are trained by a trainer who
				owns an interest in one of the horses.
16. In a race in which
				spouses who are both licensed trainers have entered horses, the trainers are
				not required to list an overfill preference unless there is common ownership of
				the horses entered.
17. The racing secretary shall decide whether to use
				an also-eligible list for any race meet:
a.
				The racing secretary shall determine the number of also-eligibles if the number
				of entries in a race exceeds the capacity of the starting gate;
b. If the number of entries in a race exceeds
				the number of horses permitted to start, the racing secretary shall determine
				the starters in a drawing supervised by a steward and witnessed by those making
				entries. If any of the starters declare out, the racing secretary shall draw
				from the also-eligible list the number of horses needed to fill the vacancies
				in the race;
c. The racing
				secretary shall assign horses, other than quarter horses, that gain a position
				in a race from the also-eligible list, to the outside post positions in the
				order in which they are drawn from the list. The racing secretary shall assign
				a quarter horse to the stall of a horse that is declared out;
d. If a horse on the also-eligible list does
				not start because of insufficient declarations, the racing secretary shall
				place the horse on the preferred list unless the owner has declined to accept
				an opportunity to start the horse;
e. If a race in which a
				horse is entered overfills, the racing secretary shall not consider an in-today
				horse for the race unless the conditions for the race read "Arizona Breds
				Preferred," or the race is a stakes or handicap race.
f.
				The racing secretary shall not consider a horse on the also-eligible list as an
				in-today horse until it has been given a position in a race or an opportunity
				to run.
g. At tracks where entries are taken two or more days
				before the date of a race, an owner, trainer, or authorized agent may enter a
				horse for the next race date if the horse has been placed on the also-eligible
				list for the first race date. If the horse is drawn into a race from its
				position on the also-eligible list, the racing secretary shall declare the
				horse an in-today horse and withdraw the horse from the race on the next race
				day in favor of a horse on the also-eligible list for that race.
18.
				After a horse is entered in a race, a person shall withdraw the horse only with
				permission of the stewards.
19. The racing
				secretary shall post a copy of the preferred list each afternoon. The stewards
				shall recognize a claim of error in the preferred list only if the claim of
				error is made by 10:00 a.m. of the day after the preferred list is
				posted.
20. If an owner, trainer, or authorized agent does not
				declare a horse from the also-eligible list by the prescribed time, the racing
				secretary shall consider the owner or trainer willing to start the horse if
				another horse is scratched from the race. The racing secretary shall not place
				a horse on the preferred list if the owner or trainer does not accept the
				opportunity to start the horse.
21. A person shall not
				alter an entry after the closing of entries. The racing secretary may correct
				an error in an entry at any time.
22. If the name of a
				horse is changed, the racing secretary shall publish the new name and the
				former name in the official entries for the horse's first three starts after
				the name change. If the name of an Arizona-bred horse is changed, the racing
				secretary shall report the name change to the Department in writing within 30
				days, listing both the new and former names.