North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 69.5 - Racing Commission, North Dakota › Article 69.5-02 - North Dakota Harness Racing Rules › Chapter 69.5-02-01 - Definitions › Section 69.5-02-01-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1. "Act" means North Dakota Century Code chapter 53-06.2.
2. "Added money" means money offered for an event by an
				  association.
3. "Age" of a horse must be reckoned from the first day of
				  January of the year of foaling.
4. "Association" means a person, association, society, or
				  body corporate conducting a race meeting.
5. "Bred" means the place of foaling of a horse.
6. "Breeder" means the owner of the dam of a horse at the
				  time of foaling.
7. "Claiming race" means a race in which every horse racing
				  therein may be claimed in conformity with this regulation.
8. "Day" means twenty-four hours ending at midnight.
9. "Declaration" means an indication in the prescribed form
				  of an intention to start a horse in a race.
10. "Entry" means two or more horses starting in a race when
				  owned in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by the same person, or
				  trained in the same stable or by the same management.
11. "Extended meeting" means a meeting of ten days or more.
12. "Fair meeting" means a meeting of less than ten days.
13. "Futurity" is a stake race in which the in foal dam of
				  the competing animal, or the animal itself is nominated during the year of the
				  foaling.
14. "Horse" means a horse, mare, colt, filly, or gelding.
15. "Judges' list" means a list of horses that are refused
				  declaration.
16. "Maiden" means a horse that:
a. Has never won a heat or race at the gate at which it is
				  entered to start and for which a purse is offered, excluding schooling races;
b. Has been awarded a race or purse money after the "official
				  sign" was posted but is not considered as a winning performance; or
c. Although having finished first in a race for which a purse
				  was or is offered was or is subsequently disqualified.
17. "Meeting" means the period of time during which races are
				  run consecutively at one racetrack.
18. "Owner" includes a part owner or lessee but does not
				  include a person who has an interest in only the winnings of a horse.
19. "Person" includes a racing association.
20. "Post position" means the position assigned to a horse
				  for the start of the race.
21. "Post time" means the time set for the arrival at the
				  starting point of the horses in a race.
22. "Qualifying list" is a list of horses that are required
				  to go a qualifying race.
23. "Qualifying race" means a race in which a horse must
				  establish its ability to participate at a race meeting consistent with the
				  qualifying standards established for a class of horse.
24. "Racing season" means the period during which races are
				  conducted in North Dakota in any calendar year and includes any meeting
				  commencing in one calendar year and concluding in the next ensuing calendar
				  year.
25. "Rules" means the rules of racing covering harness racing
				  prescribed in this article as amended from time to time, and includes those
				  directives and rulings that may from time to time be made by the commission of
				  horse racing, the executive director for the commission, or the judges with
				  respect to conducting harness horse racing.
26. "Stake" means a race open to all horses, complying with
				  its conditions and in which the nominators of the horses entered contribute to
				  the purse.
27. "Starter" means:
a. The person who dispatches a field of horses at a race.
b. A horse that has passed the fair start pole when the
				  starter dispatches the horses with the word "go".
28. "Sustaining fees" includes interim, declaration, and
				  starting fees or payments.
29. "Turf authority" means the official regulatory body of
				  racing in a jurisdiction.
30. "Walkover" is an event in which the only competitor is
				  one horse or one entry.
General Authority: NDCC
					 53-06.2-04,
					 53-06.2-05,
					 53-06.2-10
Law Implemented: NDCC
					 53-06.2-01,
					 53-06.2-04,
					 53-06.2-05,
					 53-06.2-10