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 69.5-02-01-19 - Time and records

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1. The
				fastest time raced by a horse in a heat or dash which it won, or in a
				performance against time, must be its record.
2. A standard record is a record of 2.20 or
				faster for two-year-olds and 2.15 or faster for all other ages.
3. The time of each heat or dash must be
				accurately timed and placed in the record in minutes, seconds, and fifths of
				seconds, and upon the decision of each heat, the time of that heat must be
				publicly announced or admitted to the record, unless the timers failed to time,
				in which case no time may be announced or recorded.
4. In the case of an alleged error in the
				record, announcement, or publication of the time made by a horse, the time
				questioned may not be changed to favor that horse or its owner, except if so
				directly by the board of judges and timers who officiated at the
				race.
5. Every association shall
				file with the board the certificate of a civil engineer or land surveyor that
				he has measured the racetrack from wire to wire three feet [0.91 meters] out
				from the rail or inside hub rail of the track, and certifying to the nearest
				foot the result of each measurement. If any changes or relocation of the hub
				rail are made at a track, that track must be measured and
				recertified.
6. The leading horse
				must be timed and his time only may be announced.
7. No horse may obtain a win-race record
				because of the disqualification of another horse unless that horse is declared
				the winner because the other horse was disqualified as a breaking horse on
				which he was lapped.
8. No horse
				may obtain a win-race record in a qualifying race unless that horse in the race
				in which it competed was subjected to and passed a urine test or other
				officially recognized test.
9. The
				judges shall note on the official race reports for each qualifying race whether
				or not the race was subject to a urine test or other officially recognized
				test.
10. In case of a dead heat
				for win, the time constitutes a record for the horses making the dead
				heat.
11. The time must be taken
				from the first horse leaving the point from which the distance of the race is
				measured until the winner reaches the wire.
12. Time trial performances are permitted
				subject to the following:
a. Urine tests are
				required for all horses.
b. An
				approved electric timer is required.
c. If a timing device fails during the
				progress of a time trial performance, no time trial performance record will be
				obtained.
d. Time trial
				performances are permitted only during the course of a regular meeting with the
				regular officials in the judges' stand.
e. Time trial performances are limited to
				two-year-olds who equal or beat 2.10, and three-year-olds and over who equal or
				beat 2.05.
f. Time trial
				performances must be designated by preceding the time with two capital
				"T"s.
g. A horse may have other
				horses accompany it in a time trial performance but not to precede it, or be
				harnessed with it or in any way attached to it.
h. A break during a time trial performance
				results in no time being given to the breaking horse.