Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3769 - State Racing Commission › Chapter 3769-15 - Racing Eligibility › Section 3769-15-32 - Judges' list

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The judges may place a horse on the
			 
								judges' list at any time for any reason and
			 declarations and/or entries on said horse shall be refused. The owner or
			 trainer shall be notified of such action and the reason shall be clearly
			 stated. When any horse is placed on the 
								judges'
			 list, the clerk of course shall record such in the United States trotting
			 association computer, showing the date the horse was put on the
			 
								judges' list, the reason and the date of removal if
			 the horse has been removed.
(B) No
			 presiding judge or other official at a fair meeting shall have the power to
			 remove from the 
								judges' list and accept as an entry any horse
			 which has been placed on a 
								judges' list and not subsequently removed
			 therefrom for the reason that he is dangerous or an unmanageable horse. Such
			 meetings may refuse declarations and/or entries on any horse that has been
			 placed on the 
								judges' list and has not been removed
			 therefrom.
(C) No horse shall be
			 admitted to any race track facilities in Ohio without having had a negative
			 official test for equine infectious anemia within twelve months. It shall be
			 the responsibility of the trainer to see that each horse's test results are
			 current, and the racing secretary's office will record such in the united
			 states trotting association computer after the trainer's present the negative
			 coggins test papers to the racing office upon arrival in the barn
			 area.
(D) Qualifying standards
			 shall be set at each track by the race secretary and the judges. These may vary
			 at different times of the year to accommodate weather and the class of horse
			 available. Standards for trotters will be two seconds slower than pacers.
			 Two-year olds will be allowed one second over the standard time for their
			 gait.
(E) Any horse which does not
			 race in qualifying time in two consecutive starts on a good or fast track will
			 automatically be put on the 
								judges' list for performance and must qualify. In
			 its first start off of a qualifying race, any horse who does not go in
			 qualifying time on a good or fast track, shall be placed on the
			 
								judges' list.
(F) Any horse which makes a break in two
			 consecutive starts, excluding a winning performance, on a good or fast track,
			 shall be put on the 
								judges' list and must qualify. Any horse that
			 makes a break off a qualifying race, excluding a winning performance, on a good
			 or fast track shall be placed on the 
								judges'
			 list.
(G) The judges may make any
			 horse placed on the 
								judges' list qualify repeatedly or until, in
			 their discretion, said horse is ready to start again.
(H) For horses to be scratched sick or lame a
			 scratch slip signed by a veterinarian must be turned into the judges, and the
			 horse shall be placed on the 
								judges' list. No horse scratched sick or lame may
			 be allowed to race until seven days from the date of the race they were
			 scratched and only with a release slip from the veterinarian who scratched
			 them.
(I) Any horse put on the list
			 as dangerous will not be allowed to race in this state.
(J) Any horse that is scratched sick or lame
			 in two consecutive starts must qualify before being allowed to start
			 again.
(K) Any horse scratched sick
			 or lame off a qualifying race, must requalify if said horse does not race within fourteen days
			 of the date of the race from which the horse was scratched.