Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 491 - Racing and Gaming Commission › Chapter 10 - Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse Racing › Rule 491-10.1 - Terms Defined

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
As used in the rules, unless the context otherwise requires,
				the following definitions apply:
"Age"
means the age of a horse reckoned from
				the first day of January of the year of foaling.
"Allowance race"
means an overnight race for
				which eligibility and weight to be carried are determined according to
				specified conditions that include age, sex, earnings, and number of
				wins.
"Also eligible"
means:
1. A number of eligible horses, properly entered, which were
				not drawn for inclusion in a race but which become eligible according to
				preference or lot when an entry is scratched prior to the scratch time
				deadline; or
2. The next preferred nonqualifier for the finals or
				consolation from a set of elimination trials that will become eligible in the
				event a finalist is scratched by the stewards for a rule violation or is
				otherwise eligible if written race conditions permit.
"Appeal"
means a request for the commission or
				its designee to investigate, consider, and review any decisions or rulings of
				stewards.
"Arrears"
means all moneys owed by a licensee,
				including subscriptions, jockey fees, forfeitures, and any default incident to
				these rules.
"Authorized agent"
means a person licensed by
				the commission and appointed by a written instrument, signed and acknowledged
				before a notary public by the owner on whose behalf the agent will act.
"Bleeder"
means a horse that hemorrhages from
				within the respiratory tract during a race, within one and one-half hours
				postrace, during exercise or within one and one-half hours of exercise.
"Bleeder list"
means a tabulation of all
				bleeders to be maintained by the commission.
"Chemist"
means any official racing chemist
				designated by the commission.
"Claiming race"
means a race in which any
				horse starting may be claimed (purchased for a designated amount) in
				conformance with the rules. (See also waived claiming rule in paragraph
				10.6(18) "A:.")
"Commission"
means the racing and gaming
				commission.
"Conditions"
means qualifications that
				determine a horse's eligibility to be entered in a race.
"Contest"
means a competitive racing event on
				which pari-mutuel wagering is conducted.
"Coupled entry"
means two or more contestants
				in a contest that are treated as a single betting interest for pari-mutuel
				wagering purposes. (See also "Entry.")
"Day"
means a 24-hour period ending at
				midnight.
"Dead heat"
means when the noses of two or
				more horses reach the finish line of a race at the same time.
"Declaration"
means the act of withdrawing an
				entered horse from a race prior to the closing of entries.
"Detention barn"
means the barn designated for
				the collection from horses of test samples under the supervision of the
				commission veterinarian; also the barn assigned by the commission to a horse on
				the bleeder list, for occupancy as a prerequisite for receiving bleeder
				medication.
"Entry"
means a horse made eligible to run in
				a race; or two or more horses, entered in the same race, which have common ties
				of ownership, lease, or training. (See also "Coupled entry.")
"Facility"
means an entity licensed by the
				commission to conduct pari-mutuel wagering or gaming operations in Iowa.
"Facility premises"
means all real property
				utilized by the facility in the conduct of its race meeting, including the
				racetrack, grandstand, concession stands, offices, barns, stable area, employee
				housing facilities, parking lots, and any other areas under the jurisdiction of
				the commission.
"Field or mutuelfield"
means a group of two or
				more horses upon which a single bet may be placed. A mutuel field is required
				when the number of horses starting in a race exceeds the capacity of the track
				totalizator. The highest numbered horse within the totalizator capacity and all
				the higher-numbered horses following are then grouped together in the mutuel
				field.
"Foreign substances"
means all substances
				except those that exist naturally in the untreated horse at normal
				physiological concentration.
"Forfeit"
means money due from a licensee
				because of an error, fault, neglect of duty, breach of contract, or penalty
				imposed by the stewards or the commission.
"Handicap"
means a race in which the weights
				to be carried by the horses are assigned by the racing secretary or handicapper
				for the purpose of equalizing the chances of winning for all horses
				entered.
"Horse"
means any equine (including equine
				designated as a mare, filly, stallion, colt, ridgeling, or gelding) registered
				for racing; specifically, an entire male 5 years of age and older.
"Hypodermic injection"
means any injection
				into or under the skin or mucosa, including intradermal injection, subcutaneous
				injection, submucosal injection, intramuscular injection, intravenous
				injection, intra-arterial injection, intra-articular injection, intrabursal
				injection, and intraocular (intraconjunctival) injection.
"Inquiry"
means an investigation by the
				stewards of potential interference in a contest prior to declaring the result
				of said contest official.
"Jockey"
means a professional rider licensed
				to ride in races.
"Licensee"
means any person or entity licensed
				by the commission to engage in racing or related regulated activity.
"Maiden race"
means a contest restricted to
				nonwinners.
"Meet/meeting"
means the specified period and
				dates each year during which a facility is authorized by the commission to
				conduct pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing.
"Month"
means a calendar month.
"Nomination"
means the naming of a horse to a
				certain race or series of races generally accompanied by payment of a
				prescribed fee.
"Nominator"
means the person or entity in
				whose name a horse is nominated for a race or series of races.
"Objection"
means:
1. A written complaint made to the stewards concerning a horse
				entered in a race and filed not later than one hour prior to the scheduled post
				time of the first race on the day in which the questioned horse is entered;
				or
2. A verbal claim of foul in a race lodged by the horse's
				jockey, trainer, owner, or the owner's authorized agent before the race is
				declared official.
"Official starter"
means the official
				responsible for dispatching the horses for a race.
"Official time"
means the elapsed time from
				the moment the first horse crosses the starting point until the first horse
				crosses the finish line.
"Overnight race,"
also known as a purse race,
				means a contest for which entries close at a time set by the racing
				secretary.
"Owner"
means a person or entity that holds
				any title, right or interest, whole or partial, in a horse, including the
				lessee and lessor of a horse.
"Paddock"
means an enclosure in which horses
				scheduled to compete in a contest are saddled prior to racing.
"Performance"
means a schedule of 8 to 12
				races per day unless otherwise authorized by the commission.
"Postposition"
means the preassigned position
				from which a horse will leave the starting gate.
"Post time"
means the scheduled time for
				horses to arrive at the starting gate for a contest.
"Prize"
means the combined total of any cash,
				premium, trophy, and object of value awarded to the owners of horses according
				to order of finish in a race.
"Purse"
means the total cash amount for which
				a race is contested.
"Purse race"
means a race for money or other
				prize to which the owners of horses entered do not contribute money toward its
				purse.
"Race"
means a running contest between horses
				ridden by jockeys for a purse, prize, or other reward run at a facility in the
				presence of the stewards of the meeting. This includes purse races, overnight
				races and stakes races.
"Recognized meeting"
means any meeting with
				regularly scheduled races for horses on the flat in a jurisdiction having
				reciprocal relations with this state and the commission for the mutual
				enforcement of rulings relating to horse racing.
"Rules"
means the rules promulgated by the
				commission to regulate the conduct of horse racing.
"Scratch"
means the act of withdrawing an
				entered horse from a contest after the closing of entries.
"Scratch time"
means the deadline set by the
				facility for withdrawal of entries from a scheduled performance.
"Smoke"
means the procedure of reviewing
				entries for correctness, eligibility, weight allowances, and
				medications.
"Stakes race"
means a contest in which
				nomination (if applicable), entry, and starting fees contribute to the purse.
				No overnight race shall be considered a stakes race. Special designations or
				classifications for stakes races such as "graded stakes" or "black type" shall
				be determined by the appropriate breed registries or recognized
				authorities.
"Starter"
means a horse that becomes an actual
				contestant in a race by virtue of the starting gate opening in front of it upon
				dispatch by the official starter.
"Steward"
means a duly appointed racing
				official with powers and duties specified by rules.
"Subscription"
means moneys paid for
				nomination, entry, eligibility, or starting of a horse in a stakes race.
"Test level"
means the concentration of a
				foreign substance found in the test sample.
"Test sample"
means any bodily substance
				including, but not limited to, blood, urine, or hair taken from a horse under
				the supervision of the commission veterinarian and as prescribed by the
				commission for the purpose of analysis.
"Totalizator"
means the system used for
				recording, calculating, and disseminating information about ticket sales,
				wagers, odds, and payoff prices to patrons at a pari-mutuel wagering
				facility.
"Veterinarian"
means a veterinarian holding a
				current unrestricted license issued by the state of Iowa veterinary regulatory
				authority and licensed by the commission.
"Winner"
means the horse whose nose reaches
				the finish line first or is placed first through disqualification by the
				stewards.
"Year"
means a calendar
				year.