Indiana Administrative Code › Title 71 - INDIANA HORSE RACING COMMISSION › Article 5.5 - FLAT RACING; LICENSEES › Rule 3 - Trainers › Section 3-3 - Other responsibilities

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 4-31-3-9
Affected: IC 4-31
Sec. 3.
(a) A
				trainer is responsible for the following:
(1)
				The condition and contents of stalls, tack rooms, feed rooms, sleeping rooms,
				and other areas which have been assigned by the association.
(2) Maintaining the assigned stable area in a
				clean, neat, and sanitary condition at all times.
(3) Ensuring that fire prevention rules are
				strictly observed in the assigned stable area.
(4) Providing a list to the commission of the
				trainer's employees on association grounds and any other area under the
				jurisdiction of the commission. The list shall include each employee's:
(A) name;
(B) occupation;
(C) occupational license number.
The commission shall be notified by the trainer, in writing,
				  within twenty-four (24) hours of any change.
(5) The proper identity, custody, care,
				health, condition, and safety of horses in the trainer's charge, including that
				outlined in 71 IAC 8.
(6)
				Disclosure of the true and entire ownership of each horse in the trainer's
				care, custody, or control. Any change in ownership shall be reported
				immediately to, and approved by, the stewards and recorded by the racing
				secretary.
(7) Training all horses
				owned wholly or in part by the trainer which are participating at the race
				meeting.
(8) Registering with the
				racing secretary each horse in the trainer's charge within twenty-four (24)
				hours of the horse's arrival on association grounds.
(9) Using the services of practicing
				veterinarians licensed by the commission to attend to horses that are on
				association grounds. No trainer shall permit a veterinarian whose license is
				suspended in any jurisdiction or who is excluded from the stable area of tracks
				under the jurisdiction of the commission to treat any horse, regardless of its
				location, that has or will be actively participating in racing in Indiana
				during a given calendar year.
(10)
				Immediately reporting the alteration of the sex of a horse in the trainer's
				care to the horse identifier and the racing secretary, whose office shall note
				such alteration on the certificate of registration.
(11) Promptly reporting to the racing
				secretary and the official veterinarian any horse on which a posterior digital
				neurectomy (heel denerving) has been performed and ensuring that such fact is
				designated on its certificate of registration.
(12) Promptly reporting to the stewards and
				the official veterinarian the serious illness of any horse in the trainer's
				charge.
(13) Promptly reporting the
				death of any horse in the trainer's care on association grounds to the stewards
				and the official veterinarian and compliance with
				71 IAC 8.5-7 governing postmortem
				examinations.
(14) Maintaining a
				knowledge of the medication record and status of all horses in the trainer's
				care.
(15) Immediately reporting to
				the stewards and the official veterinarian if the trainer knows, or has cause
				to believe, that a horse in their custody, care, or control has received any
				prohibited drugs or medication.
(16) Representing an owner in making entries
				and scratches and in all other matters pertaining to racing.
(17) Horses entered as to
				eligibility.
(18) Ensuring the
				fitness of a horse to perform creditably.
(19) Ensuring that the trainer's horses are
				properly shod, bandaged, and equipped.
(20) Presenting the trainer's horse in the
				paddock at the appointed time before the race in which the horse is
				entered.
(21) Personally attending
				to the trainer's horses in the paddock unless excused by the
				stewards.
(22) Instructing the
				jockey to give their best effort during a race and that each horse shall be
				ridden to win.
(23) Attending the
				collection of a urine or blood sample from the horse in the trainer's charge or
				delegating a licensed employee or the owner of the horse to do so.
(24) Promptly notifying the owner of a horse
				of a positive test performed on their horse indicating levels in violation of
				71 IAC 8.5.
(25) Notifying horse
				owners upon the revocation or suspension of the trainer's license.
(26) Guard and protect all horses in the
				trainer's care.
(27) Account for
				fees and services rendered on behalf of any horse in the trainer's care to the
				appropriate owner or owners.
(28)
				Determine the training regimen of all horses in his/her care.
(29) The licensure of owners and employees
				prior to participating on race day.
(30) Immediately notifying the stewards, or,
				in their absence, commission or track security, of any contact a practicing
				veterinarian or their helper has with a horse within twenty-four (24) hours of
				its scheduled race, except for the administration of furosemide in accordance
				with commission rules.