Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 205 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION › Title 205 CMR 4.00 - Rules of Horse Racing › Section 4.16 - Jockey Agents

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1) Each Jockey
			 agent must obtain a license from the Commission.
(2) Jockey agents will pay only one license
			 fee in any calendar year.
(3) The
			 Stewards may permit an applicant to act pending decision of his or her
			 application for a license.
(4) A
			 jockey agent may represent up to two jockeys and one apprentice, providing the
			 conditions justify and upon approval of the Stewards.
(5) No jockey agent shall make or assist in
			 the making of any engagement for any rider other than those that he or she is
			 licensed to represent.
(6) If, for
			 good reasons, a jockey agent is short of his or her permissible quota ofjockeys
			 and wishes to take on the task of making engagements for a rider not named in
			 his or her license, he or she must obtain permission from the Stewards and the
			 Commission before making any such engagements.
(7) If any jockey agent gives up the making
			 of engagements for any rider he or she shall immediately notify the Stewards,
			 the Commission and the racing secretary; and he or she shall also turn over to
			 the Stewards a list of any unfilled engagements he or she may have made for
			 that rider.
(8) A jockey agent may
			 charge a jockey or apprentice for each mount obtained by him or her, but shall
			 receive no recompense for engagements made by the rider himself or herself or
			 by his or her contract employer.
(9) Each jockey agent shall keep, on a form
			 provided by the Association a record by races of all engagements made by him or
			 her or by others, for the jockeys he or she is handling. Calls shall be
			 numbered in the order of their priority whenever more than one is given for any
			 rider in any race. This record must be kept up to date and held ready at all
			 times for inspection by the Stewards or the racing secretary.
(11) No person other than a jockey agent in
			 good standing shall make engagements for an apprentice jockey or jockey.
			 However, a jockey not represented by an agent may make his or her own
			 engagements.
(12) The Stewards in
			 the light of the records submitted by the j ockey agent will adjust all rival
			 claims for the service of a rider and first call shall have priority.
(13) A jockey agent shall not give to anyone
			 directly or indirectly, any information nor advice, or engage in the practice
			 commonly known as "touting," for the purpose of influencing any person, or that
			 would tend to do so, in the making of a wager on the result of any
			 race.
(14) Any agent who falsifies
			 his or her record shall be penalized by the revocation of his or her license
			 and any agent penalized shall be ineligible for another license for a term of
			 12 months from the day of the revocation.
(15) Jockey agents will be called upon to
			 explain rival claims for any mount or for any rider and inability to satisfy
			 the Stewards that the rival claim arose through honest
bona fide
error shall be considered a falsification of records.
(16) Jockey agents shall not be allowed in
			 the paddock at any time.
(17) Under
			 no circumstances shall a jockey agent be permitted within the saddling
			 enclosure during racing hours nor shall said agent have access to the jockey
			 quarters at any time; nor said agent be allowed on the track proper at the
			 conclusion of any race run; nor shall said agent communicate with any jockey
			 during racing hours.