Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 205 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION › Title 205 CMR 3.00 - Harness Horse Racing › Section 3.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
The following definitions and interpretations shall apply in
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Administer
or
Administration
is the introduction of a substance into
				the body of a horse.
Arrears
includes all monies due for
				entrance, forfeits, fees, forfeitures, subscriptions, stake, and also any
				default in money incident to the Rules.
Associated Person
is the spouse of an
				inactive person, or a companion, family member, employer, employee, agent,
				partnership, partner, corporation, or other entity whose relationship, whether
				financial or otherwise, with an inactive person would give the appearance that
				such other person or entity would care for or train a racing animal or perform
				veterinarian service on a racing animal for the benefit, credit, reputation, or
				satisfaction of the inactive person.
Association
is any person or persons,
				associations, or corporations licensed by the Commission to conduct harness
				horse racing within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for any stake, purse or
				reward.
Assumed Name
shall be a name other
				than the given name or legal name of an individual. Assumed names shall include
				but shall not be confined to racing, stable names, farm names, association,
				corporations, partnerships (when the actual legal names of the partners are not
				used),
Nom de Course
,
etc.
Authorized Agent
is a person appointed
				by a written instrument signed by the owner and filed in accordance with
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Bleeder
is a horse which has
				demonstrated external evidence of exercise induced pulmonary hemorrhage.
Bleeder List
is a tabulation of all
				bleeders to be maintained by the Commission.
Breeder of a Horse
is the owner of its
				dam at the time of foaling.
Breeding Place
is the place of horse's
				conception.
Calendar Day
is 24 hours ending at
				midnight.
Controlled Therapeutic Medication
is
				any medication approved by the Association of Racing Commissioners
				International for which the regulatory analyte concentration in the sample(s)
				may not exceed specified regulatory limits published in
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Declaration
shall mean the naming of a
				particular horse to a particular race as a starter.
Ejected
shall mean the removal from
				the grounds of an Association.
Entry
shall mean according to the
				requirements of the text:
(a) a horse made eligible to run in a race,
(b) two or more horses which are entered or run in a race owned
				by the same owner or trained by the same trainer.
Equipment
, as applied to a horse,
				shall mean harness, hobbles, bits, shadow rolls, blinkers, poles, tongue
				straps, bandages, boots, toe weights, gaiting straps, shoes, head numbers,
				saddle numbers, sulkies, whips, spurs, etcetera.
Field
, when the individual horses
				competing in a race exceed the numbering capacity of the Tote, the highest
				numbered horses within the capacity of the Tote, and all horses of a higher
				number shall be grouped together and called the "Field."
Forfeit
shall mean money due because
				of an error, fault, neglect of duty, breach of contract, or a penalty.
Forfeiture
shall mean any money
				imposed as a penalty by the Judges or Starter of the meeting.
Furosemide List
means a tabulation of
				all horses eligible to participate in a race with furosemide in their
				system.
Inactive Person
is any person whose
				license has been suspended for more than 30 days; whose license has expired or
				been revoked; or whose license application has been denied.
Judges
shall mean the Judges of the
				meeting or their duly appointed deputies.
Law
or
Laws
shall mean M.G.L. c. 128A.
Licensee
shall mean any Association
				receiving a license from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to conduct harness
				horse racing.
Medication
is any substance or
				metabolite capable of exerting a pharmacological effect on the horse's system
				with an accepted use in the diagnosis, cure, treatment or prevention of a
				veterinary medical condition.
Meeting
is the whole consecutive
				period for which license to race has been granted to any one Association by the
				Commission.
Month
is a calendar month.
Nominator
is the person in whose name
				a horse is entered for a race.
Owner
includes sole owner, part owner
				or lessee of a horse. An interest only in the winnings of a horse does not
				constitute part ownership.
Place
in racing shall mean first,
				second, third or fourth position at the finish of a race and in that order is
				called "Win," "Place," "Show" and "Fourth."
Post Position
is the position assigned
				to the horse at the start of the race.
Post Time
is the time set for the
				arrival at the starting point of the horses in a race and must be shown a
				reasonable time prior to the race on a clock device, provided for that purpose,
				prominently displaced and clearly readable from the grandstand.
Race
. A contest between horses for
				purse, stakes, premium, wager for money or admission fees on any course and in
				the presence of a judge or judges.
Race Day
means any period of 24 hours
				beginning at midnight and included in the period of a race meeting and in the
				matter of penalties the word "day" means a "race day."
Recognized Meeting
shall be any
				meeting wherever held under the sanction of the United States Trotting
				Association having reciprocal relations with the Massachusetts Gaming
				Commission for the mutual enforcement of rulings imposed on persons guilty of
				fraudulent turf practices of any kind.
Rule Off
shall mean the act of
				debarring from the grounds of an Association and denying all racing
				privileges.
Rules
shall mean all the rules and
				regulations of the USTA and
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				3.00.
Scratch
shall mean the act of
				withdrawing an entered horse from a race after the closing of overnight
				entries.
Scratch Time
shall mean the time set
				by the Association for the closing of applications for permission to withdraw
				from races of that day.
Starter
. A horse is a "starter" for a
				race when the Starter dispatches the horses with the word "Go."
Subscription
shall mean the act of
				nominating to a stake race.
Suspended
shall mean that any
				privilege granted to a licensee of the Commission by the officials of a racing
				meeting or by the Commission has been withdrawn.
Tote
or
Tote
				Board
shall mean the totalisator.
Year
shall mean a calendar
				year.