Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part VIII - State Horse Racing Commission › Subpart D - Standardbred Rules of Racing (Harness) › Chapter 203 - LICENSING, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF STANDARDBRED OCCUPATIONAL LICENSEES-TEMPORARY REGULATIONS › TRAINERS AND GROOMS › Section 203.24 - Other duties and responsibilities of trainers

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
In addition to the duties and responsibilities set forth
						in §
											§
											203.22 and
						203.23 (relating to trainer
						responsibility rule; and duties of trainers), a trainer shall also be
						responsible for:
(1) The condition and
					 contents of stalls, tack rooms, feed rooms and other areas which have been
					 assigned by the licensed racing entity;
(2) Maintaining the assigned stable area in a
					 clean, neat and sanitary condition at all times;
(3) Ensuring that fire prevention rules are
					 strictly observed in the assigned stable area;
(4) Providing a list to the Commission of the
					 trainer's employees on the racetrack grounds and any other area under the
					 jurisdiction of the Commission. The list shall include each employee's name,
					 occupation, social security number and occupational license number. The Judges
					 shall be notified by the trainer, in writing, within 24 hours of any change to
					 the employee list;
(5) Ensuring the
					 adequate care, custody, condition, fitness, health, safety and security of
					 horses under the trainer's care, custody and control;
(6) Disclosing the true and entire ownership
					 of each horse the trainer's care, custody or control. Any change in ownership
					 shall be reported immediately to, and approved by, the Judges and recorded by
					 the race secretary;
(7) Training
					 all horses owned wholly or in part by the trainer which are participating at
					 the race meeting;
(8) Registering
					 with the race secretary each horse in the trainer's charge within 24 hours of
					 the horse's arrival on the licensed racetrack facility grounds;
(9) Ensuring that, at the time of arrival at
					 a licensed racetrack, each horse in the trainer's care, custody or control is
					 accompanied by a valid health certificate (Coggins) which shall be filed with
					 the race secretary;
(10)
					 Immediately reporting the alteration of the sex of a horse in the trainer's
					 care to the horse identifier and the race secretary, whose office shall note
					 the alteration on the certificate of registration;
(11) Promptly reporting to the race secretary
					 and the Commission Veterinarian any horse on which a posterior digital
					 neurectomy (heel nerving) is performed and ensuring that the fact is designated
					 on its certificate of registration;
(12) Promptly notifying the Commission
					 Veterinarian of any suspected or actual knowledge of a reportable disease and
					 any unusual incidence of a communicable illness in any horse in the trainer's
					 care;
(13) Promptly reporting the
					 death of any horse in the trainer's care while on the licensed racing entity
					 grounds to the Judges and the Commission Veterinarian and complying with the
					 rules and regulations governing post-mortem examinations;
(14) Representing an owner in making entries
					 and scratches and in all other matters pertaining to racing;
(15) Horses entered as to eligibility and by
					 gait, age, sex, number of wins, earnings or claiming price;
(16) Ensuring the fitness of a horse to
					 perform reasonably at the distance entered;
(17) For having the entered horse standing by
					 and ready for the pre-race veterinary examination (racing soundness
					 examination) to be conducted by the Commission Veterinarian or designee. The
					 trainer shall have all bandages, blankets and muzzles off and horse's legs
					 clean and free of substances, sweats or leg medications;
(18) For participating and assisting the
					 Commission Veterinarian with pre-race examination tasks including the safe
					 restraint of the horse, tattoo identification or jogging the horse as
					 requested. Failure by the trainer or assistant trainer to comply with the
					 direction, request or requirement issued by the Commission Veterinarian during
					 the course of a pre-race examination shall result in the horse being scratched
					 from the race and disciplinary action being taken against the
					 trainer;
(19) Ensuring that the
					 trainer's horses are properly shod, bandaged and properly equipped;
(20) Ensuring that all Lasix horses entered
					 to compete shall be present on racetrack grounds no less than 4 hours prior to
					 the scheduled post time of the race for which the horse is entered to compete
					 and non-Lasix horses shall be present on racetrack grounds no less than 2 hours
					 prior to the scheduled post time of the race. Horses not arriving on racetrack
					 grounds in accordance with the previously mentioned times may be scratched or
					 fined with discretion given to the Board of Judges to consider extenuating
					 circumstances;
(21) Presenting the
					 horse in the paddock at least 2 hours before post time or at a time otherwise
					 appointed before the race in which the horse is entered and personally
					 attending to the horse in the paddock, unless excused by the Judges;
(22) Instructing the driver to give the
					 driver's best effort during a race and that each horse shall be driven to
					 win;
(23) Attending the collection
					 of post-race urine and blood samples from the horse in the trainer's charge or
					 delegating a licensed employee or the owner of the horse to do so;
					 and
(24) Notifying horse owners
					 upon the revocation or suspension of the trainer's license. A trainer whose
					 license has been suspended or whose license has expired or been revoked; or
					 license application has been denied, must inform the horse owners that until
					 the license is restored the trainer can no longer be involved with the
					 training, care, custody or control of their horses, nor receive any
					 compensation from them for the training, care, custody or control of their
					 horses. Upon application by the owner, the Judges may approve the transfer of
					 the horses to the care of another licensed trainer, and upon approved transfer,
					 the horses may be entered to race. Upon transfer of the horse, the inactive
					 trainer shall not be involved in any arrangements related to the care, custody
					 or control of the horse and shall not benefit financially or in any other way
					 from the training of the horse.