New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 15 - GAMBLING AND LIQUOR CONTROL › Chapter 2 - HORSE RACING › Part 6 - VETERINARY PRACTICES, EQUINE HEALTH, MEDICATION, AND TRAINER RESPONSIBILITY › Section 15.2.6.11 - TRAINER RESPONSIBILITY

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
The purpose of this subsection is to identify
				  responsibilities of the trainer that pertain specifically to the health and
				  well being of horses in their care.
A.
				The trainer is responsible for the condition of horses entered in an official
				workout or race and is responsible for the presence of any prohibited drug,
				medication or other substance, including permitted medication in excess of the
				maximum allowable level, in such horses. A positive test for a prohibited drug,
				medication or substance, including permitted medication in excess of the
				maximum allowable level, as reported by a Commission-approved laboratory, is
				prima facie evidence of a violation of this rule. In the absence of substantial
				evidence to the contrary, the trainer is responsible.
B. A trainer shall prevent the administration
				of any drug or medication or other prohibited substance that may cause a
				violation of these rules.
C. A
				trainer whose horse has been claimed remains responsible for any violation of
				rules regarding that horse's participation in the race in which the horse is
				claimed.
D. The trainer is
				responsible for: maintaining the assigned stable area in a clean, neat and
				sanitary condition at all times; using the services of those veterinarians
				licensed by the commission to attend horses that are on association
				grounds.
E. Additionally, with
				respect to horses in their care or custody, the trainer is responsible for:
(1) the proper identity, custody, care,
				health, condition and safety of horses;
(2) having each horse in their care that is
				racing, or is stabled on association grounds, tested for equine infectious
				anemia (EIA) and for filing evidence of such negative test results with the
				racing secretary as required by the commission;
(3) immediately reporting the alteration of
				the sex of a horse to the horse identifier and the racing secretary;
(4) promptly reporting to the racing
				secretary and the official veterinarian when a posterior digital neurectomy
				(heel nerving) is performed and ensuring that such fact is designated on its
				certificate of registration;
(5)
				promptly notifying the official veterinarian of any reportable disease and any
				unusual incidence of a communicable illness in any horse in their
				charge;
(6) promptly reporting the
				serious injury or death of any horse at locations under the jurisdiction of the
				commission to the stewards and the official veterinarian and compliance with
				the rules in this part governing postmortem examinations;
(7) maintaining knowledge of the medication
				record and status;
(8) immediately
				reporting to the stewards and the official veterinarian knowledge or reason to
				believe, that there has been any administration of a prohibited medication,
				drug or substance;
(9) ensuring the
				fitness to perform creditably at the distance entered;
(10) ensuring that every horse entered to
				race is present at its assigned stall for a pre-race soundness inspection as
				prescribed in this part;
(11)
				ensuring proper bandages, equipment and shoes;
(12) presence in the paddock at least 20
				minutes before post time or at a time otherwise appointed before the race in
				which the horse is entered;
(13)
				personally attending in the paddock and supervising the saddling thereof,
				unless excused by the stewards;
(14) attending the collection of a urine or
				blood sample or delegating a licensed employee or the owner to do so;
(15) immediately reporting to the stewards
				any administration of any medication or drugs, except as provided, within
				twenty-four (24) hours of post time of the race in which the horse has been
				entered;
(16) immediately
				submitting to the official veterinarian and the racing secretary the necessary
				forms to scratch any horse treated with any medication, or drug, within
				twenty-four (24) hours of the post time of the race in which the horse has been
				entered unless such treatment is permitted herein.