Indiana Administrative Code › Title 71 - INDIANA HORSE RACING COMMISSION › Article 5 - 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; and
(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 his or her charge, including that
				outlined in 71 IAC 8.
(6)
				Disclosure of the true and entire ownership of each horse in his or her care,
				custody, or control. Any change in ownership shall be reported immediately to,
				and approved by, the judges and recorded by the racing secretary.
(7) Training all horses owned wholly or in
				part by him or her which are participating at the race meeting.
(8) Registering with the racing secretary
				each horse in his or her charge within twenty-four (24) hours of the horse's
				arrival on association grounds.
(9)
				Using the services of those veterinarians licensed by the commission to attend
				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 his or her care to the horse identifier and the racing
				secretary, whose office shall note such alteration on the USTA electronic
				eligibility.
(11) Promptly
				reporting to the racing secretary and the commission veterinarian any horse on
				which a posterior digital neurectomy (heel denerving) has been performed and
				ensuring that such fact is designated on the USTA electronic
				eligibility.
(12) Promptly
				reporting to the judges and the commission veterinarian the serious illness of
				any horse in his or her charge.
(13) Promptly reporting the death of any
				horse in his or her care on association grounds to the judges and the
				commission veterinarian and compliance with 71 IAC 8 governing postmortem
				examinations.
(14) Maintaining a
				knowledge of the medication record and status of all horses in his or her
				care.
(15) Immediately reporting to
				the judges and the commission veterinarian if he or she knows, or has cause to
				believe, that a horse in his or her 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 his or her horses are
				properly shod, bandaged, and equipped.
(20) Equipment used on a horse shall not
				affect the placement of or obstruct the visibility of the head number or saddle
				pad.
(21) Presenting his or her
				horse in the paddock at the appointed time before the race in which the horse
				is entered.
(22) Personally
				attending to his or her horses in the paddock or designating a licensee to
				attend to the horse in the paddock.
(23) Instructing the driver to give his or
				her best effort during a race and that each horse shall be driven to
				win.
(24) Attending the collection
				of a urine or blood sample from the horse in his or her charge or delegating a
				licensed employee or the owner of the horse to do so.
(25) Promptly notifying the owner of a horse
				of a positive test or blood gas analysis report performed on his or her horse
				indicating levels in violation of 71 IAC 8.
(26) Notifying horse owners upon the
				revocation or suspension of his or her trainer's license.
(27) Guard and protect all horses in his or
				her care.
(28) Account for fees and
				services rendered on behalf of any horse in his or her care to the appropriate
				owner or owners.
(29) Determine the
				training regimen of all horses in his or her care.
(30) Ensuring that electronic eligibility is
				registered with the USTA prior to entry in a race or qualifying race.
(31) Immediately notifying the judges, or in
				their absence commission or track security, of any contact a practicing
				veterinarian or his or her 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.