Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 205 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION › Title 205 CMR 4.00 - Rules of Horse Racing › Section 4.36 - Trainers

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1) Each trainer must obtain a license from
			 the Commission.
(2) No trainer's
			 license or assistant trainer's license shall be considered or approved for an
			 applicant younger than 18 years old.
(3) No trainer shall practice his or her
			 profession except under his or her own name.
(4) The Stewards may permit a trainer to act
			 pending action on his or her application.
(5) A licensed trainer may represent the
			 owner in the matter of his or her entries, declarations and the employment of
			 jockeys.
(6) A trainer shall have
			 his or her horse in the paddock at the time appointed.
(7) A trainer shall attend his or her horse
			 in the paddock, and shall be present to supervise his saddling, unless he or
			 she has obtained the permission of a Steward to send his assistant trainer or
			 another licensed trainer as a substitute.
(8) When a trainer is to be absent from his
			 or her stable or the grounds where his or her horses are racing for a period of
			 more than two racing days, and his or her horses are entered or are to be
			 entered, he or she must provide a licensed trainer to assume the complete
			 responsibility of the horses he or she is entering or running. Such licensed
			 trainer shall sign in the presence of the Stewards a form furnished by the
			 Commission accepting complete responsibility of the horse or horses being
			 entered or running.
(9) The trainer
			 shall be responsible for and be the absolute insurer of the condition of the
			 horses he or she enters regardless of the acts of third parties.
(10) Each trainer shall register with the
			 racing secretary all the horses in his or her charge, giving the name, color,
			 sex, age, breeding and ownership of each.
(11) The personnel of every stable and
			 changes shall be registered, by the trainer, with the Security Department at
			 the track where their horses are racing or stabled, and shall be available at
			 all times to representatives of the Commission.
(12) A trainer shall not have in charge or
			 under his or her supervision any horse owned, in whole or in part, by a
			 disqualified person.
(13) A trainer
			 shall not have in charge, or under his or her supervision any horse owned, in
			 whole or in part, by a jockey.
(14)
			 No trainer shall accept, directly or indirectly, any bribe, gift or gratuity in
			 any form which might influence the result of any race or which would tend to do
			 so.
(15) No trainer shall move or
			 permit to be moved any horse or horses in his or her care from the grounds of
			 an Association until the horse is properly signed out of the grounds at the
			 stable gate and after the racing secretary has been properly
			 notified.
(16) A trainer shall not
			 enter or start a horse that:
(a) is not in
			 serviceably sound racing condition;
(b) has been trachea-tubed;
(c) has been "nerved" at or above the
			 ankle.
(d) has been nerved or had
			 cryosurgery performed on a nerve; except that horses that have had a neurectomy
			 or cryosurgery performed on the posterior digital nerve below, and not at, the
			 fetlock of one or more feet may be permitted to race.
(e) is blind or whose vision is seriously
			 impaired in both eyes. A horse blind in one eye may start only if the other eye
			 has normal vision.
(f) does not
			 comply with M.G.L. c. 129, § 44 and
			 330 CMR
			 16.05:
Prevention and Suppression of
			 Equine Infectious Anemia.