Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 09 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Subtitle 10 - RACING COMMISSION › Chapter 09.10.01 - Thoroughbred Rules › Section 09.10.01.67 - Daily Doubles

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. Daily doubles
				may be limited to one for each racing program.
B. Coupled entries are permitted.
C. Fields are prohibited in either half of
				the daily double. This section does not apply to races conducted by the Cecil
				County Breeders' Fair, Inc. (Fair Hill).
D. The pay-off shall be posted after the pool
				closes, and before the race completing the double has been run, except in the
				event of a dead heat in the first half of the daily double, when the posting of
				the pay-off may be deferred until the race completing the daily double has been
				run.
E. If no ticket is sold
				combining the two winners, the pool shall then be apportioned equally between
				those having tickets including the winner of the first race and those having
				tickets including the winner in the last race in the same manner in which a
				"place" pool is calculated and distributed.
F. If no ticket is sold including the winner
				of the first race, the entire pool will be paid to the holders of tickets which
				include the winner of the last race of the daily double.
G. Likewise if no ticket is sold including
				the winner of the last race, then the entire pool will be paid to the holders
				of tickets which include the winner of the first race of the daily
				double.
H. If no ticket is sold
				including the winner of either race, then the pool shall be paid to the holders
				of tickets which include the horses finishing second in the two races of the
				daily double. If no ticket is sold which would require distribution of the
				daily double pool, the association shall make a complete and full refund of the
				pool.
I. If for any reason the
				first race of a daily double is cancelled and declared "no race", full and
				complete refund will be made of the daily double pool. If for any reason the
				second race of a daily double is cancelled and declared "no race", the daily
				double pool shall be distributed to the holders of the daily double tickets on
				the winner of the first race in the same manner as the straight pool of the
				first race is distributed, except as to the amount of distribution, which shall
				be controlled by the amount bet in the daily double pool.
J. If, after the first half of the daily
				double has been run and declared official, a horse is excused or scratched in
				the second half of the daily double, then a consolation pay-off shall be made
				to holders of the daily double tickets which combine the winner of the first
				half of the daily double to the excused or scratched horse of the second half
				of the daily double computed in the following manner:
(1) If, after the first half of the daily
				double has been run and declared official, a horse is scratched or excused from
				the second half of the daily double, then a consolation pay-off shall be made
				to holders of tickets which combine the winner of the first half and the
				scratched or excused horse.
(2) The
				consolation pay-off shall be calculated as follows:
(a) The net daily double pool (gross pool
				less commission) shall be divided by the total number of tickets sold combining
				the winner of the first half; the quotient thus obtained shall constitute the
				consolation pay-off, to be paid to holders of each ticket combining the winner
				of the first half and the scratched or excused horse in the second
				half.
(b) The entire consolation
				pool (number of eligible tickets times the consolation price), plus the
				breakage, shall then be deducted from the net daily double pool. The remaining
				pool is the new net pool for the daily double.