South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 20 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Article 20:04 - GAMING COMMISSION - RACING › Chapter 20:04:31 - Definitions › Section 20:04:31:01 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
In addition to the definitions contained in SDCL  42-7-48, terms used in this article mean:
(1) "Added money," the money which an association adds in a stakes race to the nominating and starting fee;
(2) "Age of a greyhound," age reckoned from the day a greyhound was whelped;
(3) "Age of a horse," the assigned age of a horse reckoned from the first day of January in the year in which the horse is foaled;
(4) "Arrears," all sums due for entrance money fees, including jockey fees if applicable, subscriptions, stakes, forfeitures, purchase money in claiming races, and any default incident to this article;
(5) "Association," a person, persons, association, or corporation licensed to conduct a racing meet under SDCL 42-7;
(6) "Authorized agent," a person appointed by a written instrument signed and acknowledged before a notary public by the owner and filed in accordance with § 20:04:13:74 or 20:04:21:32;
(7) "Big perfecta," a form of pari-mutuel wagering in which the bettor selects the two greyhounds or horses that will finish first and second in each of two consecutive races in the exact order as officially posted;
(8) "Breaks," or "breakage," the difference between the amount contributed to the pari-mutuel pool and the total of the commissions and sums redistributed to the contributors;
(9) "Bred," the place of a horse's birth;
(10) "Breeder," the owner of a greyhound's dam at the time of whelping or the owner of a horse's dam at the time of foaling;
(11) "Commission," the South Dakota commission on gaming;
(12) "Crate," an enclosure for the individual housing of greyhounds;
(13) "Day," a 24-hour period ending at midnight;
(14) "Declaration," the act of withdrawing an entered greyhound from a race at least one-half hour before the time designated for the drawing of post positions for the race in which the greyhound is entered; or the act of withdrawing an entered horse from a race before closing of overnight entries;
(15) "Duration of meeting," from 10:00 a.m. of the first day of a meeting to one hour after the last race of the last day;
(16) "Entry," a horse eligible to run in a race, two or more horses owned by the same owner or trained by the same trainer which are entered to run in a race, or a greyhound entered to run;
(17) "Equipment," whips, blinkers, tongue straps, muzzles, hoods, nosebands, bits, shadow rolls, martingales, breast plates, bandages, boots, plates (shoes), and all other paraphernalia common or otherwise which might be used on or attached to a horse while racing; or muzzles, number blankets, and all other paraphernalia common or otherwise which might be used on or attached to a greyhound while racing;
(18) "Established weight," the racing weight established by the owner or trainer as a greyhound's best racing weight;
(19) "Forfeit," money due because of an error, fault, neglect of duty, breach of contract, or penalty;
(20) "Foul riding," all acts of a jockey committed in the running of a race which are designed to gain unfair or unsportsmanlike advantage, to the end of improving his own chance or position in the race or of lessening the chance or position of another in the race;
(21) "Fraudulent or corrupt practice," an attempt to enrich oneself or one's associates or gain an advantage through unfair, unlawful, or dishonest behavior in connection with the racing of horses or greyhounds; those practices listed in SDCL  42-7-91;
(22) "Horse," a colt, filly, gelding, mare, or ridgling or an entire male five years old or older designated for racing purposes and programming as follows:
(a) "Male," a horse, colt, gelding, or ridgling;
(b) "Female," a filly or mare. A filly becomes a mare when five years old;