New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle T - New York State Gaming Commission › Chapter I - Division of Horse Racing and Pari-Mutuel Wagering › Subchapter B - Harness Racing › Part 4122 - PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING › Section 4122.46 - Pick four pools

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The pick
					 four (or other approved name) is a form of pari-mutuel wagering conducted on
					 four races specifically designated as pick four races by the commission. Each
					 bettor selects, in order, the first placed horse in each of the four races
					 designated and advertised by the track as pick four races, in the race order so
					 designated by the commission.
(b)
					 The pick four is not a parlay and has no connection with nor relation to the
					 other betting pools for the respective races. The pick four pool shall be held
					 entirely separate from all other pools and is no part of a daily double,
					 exacta, quinella, triple, superfecta or other wagering pool.
(c) Resale of pick four tickets from one
					 individual to another is prohibited, shall be grounds for ejection, and may be
					 deemed illegal gambling.
(d) Races
					 in which pick four pools shall be conducted shall be clearly designated in the
					 program and racing cards issued by the corporation.
(e) The design of the pick four tickets shall
					 be clearly and immediately distinguishable from other pari-mutuel
					 tickets.
(f) Scratched horses and
					 nonstarters. At any time after wagering begins on the pick four pool, should an
					 entire betting entry or field be scratched or declared a nonstarter in any pick
					 four race, no further tickets selecting such betting entry or field shall be
					 issued, and wagers upon such betting entry or field, for purposes of the pick
					 four pool, shall be deemed wagers upon the betting entry or field (designated
					 horse) upon which the most wagering money has been registered at the track in
					 the win pool at the close of win pool betting for such race. (In the event of a
					 money tie, the tied betting entry or field upon which the most wagering money
					 has been registered at the track in the place pool at the close of place pool
					 betting for that race shall be designated.) Wagers in the pick four pool upon
					 an entry or field of horses from which a starter or starters may have been
					 scratched will, in the case of such entry or field, be deemed wagers upon the
					 horse or horses remaining in such entry or field; except at tracks with
					 totalisator capability to record wagers selecting a coupled entry (or field)
					 and wagers selecting any individual constituent horses therein (merging such
					 wagers for odds display and payoff purposes), in which case, the wagers upon
					 scratched constituent horses will be deemed wagers upon the "designated horse"
					 in such race. In case no starter remains representing any betting entry or
					 field, wagers upon such entry or field shall be deemed wagers upon the
					 "designated horse" in the race affected by the scratch. Should the balance of a
					 betting entry or field race as a nonbetting starter for purposes of other
					 pari-mutuel pools, as provided in section
					 4122.27 of this Part, wagers upon
					 such entry or field shall be deemed wagers upon the "designated horse" for such
					 race. Should a programmed starter be scratched or declared a nonstarter in any
					 pick-four race prior to the start of the first leg, the betting operator shall
					 be authorized to refund any tickets designating betting entries affected
					 thereby prior to such first leg.
(g) Failure to select a winning combination.
(1) If no pick four ticket is sold combining
					 the winners of the four pick four races, all pick four tickets designating
					 three winners shall be considered winning tickets and the net pool distributed
					 equally to holders of said tickets.
(2) If no pick four ticket is sold combining
					 the winners of three such races, all pick four tickets designating two winners
					 shall be considered winning tickets and the net pool distributed equally to
					 holders of said tickets.
(3) If no
					 pick four ticket is sold combining the winners of two such races, all pick four
					 tickets designating one winner shall be considered winning tickets and the net
					 pool distributed equally to holders of said tickets.
(4) If no pick four ticket is sold
					 designating any winner to win in the designated pick four races, the pick four
					 shall be declared off and the gross pool refunded.
(5) If any of the designated races are
					 cancelled or declared "no race," the pick four will be determined by the
					 winners of the remaining race or races.