Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 462 - OREGON RACING COMMISSION › Division 110 - DEFINITIONS › Section 462-110-0010 - Racing Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The following definitions and interpretations shall apply in
				these rules unless otherwise indicated or text otherwise requires (Words of the
				masculine gender include the feminine and neuter. Words in the singular include
				the plural and vice versa.):
(1)
			 "Added Money": Cash, exclusive of trophy or other award, added by the race meet
			 licensee to stake fees paid by subscribers to form the total purse for a stakes
			 race.
(2) "Age": The age of a horse
			 is calculated as beginning on the first of January in the year in which the
			 horse is foaled.
(3) "Allowance":
			 Weights and other conditions of a race.
(4) "Allowance Race": A race where there are
			 both allowances and penalties, according to the conditions of the race, on
			 monies or races won.
(5)
			 "Appropriate Horse Registry": For Thoroughbreds, the registry office of the
			 Jockey Club (Lexington, Kentucky); for Quarter Horses, the American Quarter
			 Horse Association (Amarillo, Texas); for Appaloosa horses, the Appaloosa Horse
			 Club, Inc. (Moscow, Idaho); for Paint horses, the American Paint Horse
			 Association (Fort Worth, Texas); for Arabians, the Arabian Horse Registry of
			 America (Denver, Colorado); and for mules, the American Donkey and Mule Society
			 (Lewisville, TX).
(6) "Authorized
			 User": A person authorized by the Oregon Racing Commission to receive, to
			 decode and to use for legal purposes the encrypted signal of racing events in
			 Oregon.
(7) "Bleeder": Any horse
			 known to have externally bled from its respiratory tract during a workout or
			 race, and so designated by the commission veterinarian or any horse that has
			 internal bleeding that is observed or verified by the commission veterinarian
			 through endoscopic examination.
(8)
			 "Bleeder List": A tabulation of bleeders to be maintained by the
			 commission.
(9) "Blocked": Where
			 there is no feeling in an injured area.
(10) "Breakage": The odd cents by which the
			 amount payable on each dollar wagered in a pari-mutuel pool exceeds a multiple
			 to ten cents or to five cents in accordance with ORS
			 462.140.
(11) "Breeder": The owner of the dam of a
			 horse at the time the horse was foaled. A horse is "bred" at the place of its
			 foaling.
(12) "Carded": Scheduled
			 and placed on the daily racing program.
(13) "Claim Certificate" (Open Claim
			 Certificate): A written document issued by the commission which permits a
			 person to enter a claim for a horse without having a foal certificate in the
			 race office.
(14) "Claiming Race":
			 A race in which all horses may be claimed and purchased for the amount
			 specified in the conditions for that race by any person meeting the
			 requirements of OAR 462-150-0030(2).
(15) "Combined Pari-Mutuel Pools", "Combined
			 Pools": The pari-mutuel wagers at one or more off-track wagering facilities
			 being contributed into the pari-mutuel pools of an Oregon host race meet
			 licensee.
(16) "Commission": Oregon
			 Racing Commission. Commissioner is a member of the commission.
(17) "Complaint": A written allegation of a
			 violation of these rules or ORS Chapter 462.
(18) "Day" "Race Day" and "Simulcast Day":
			 Any 24 hour period beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at midnight. "Racing Day"
			 is a day on which live races are conducted at a race track in Oregon. "Calendar
			 Days" are those consecutive days counted irrespective of number of racing days.
			 "Simulcast Day" is a day that races from an out-of-state track are being
			 simulcast into a track in Oregon on a day that there are no live races being
			 run at the Oregon track. Simulcast days may only occur on days that fall within
			 the period of time for which a race meet license has been granted by the
			 commission. Unless otherwise specified, use of the word "day" shall mean a
			 calendar day. In calculating the average daily handle for race meets, any race
			 day in which some of the day's races are canceled due to natural occurrences,
			 as determined by the commission, will be counted as a partial race day in the
			 same proportion as the number of races actually run by the number of races
			 carded to be run in the day's racing program.
(19) "Decoder": A device and/or means to
			 convert encrypted audiovisual signals and/or data into a form recognizable as
			 the original content of the signals.
(20) "Derby": A race exclusively for
			 3-year-olds, except for Arabians which is for 4-year-olds.
(21) "Designated Races": Stake and handicap
			 races so designated by the stewards prior to the first day of the race
			 meet.
(22) "Disqualification": An
			 order of the stewards or commission revising the order of finish of a
			 race.
(23) "Divided Race": A race
			 in which there are so many entries that it is made into two separate races. A
			 race becomes a divided race when it is announced by the racing secretary that
			 he/she is dividing the race.
(24)
			 "Drug": As defined in ORS
			 462.010(5).
(25) "Eligible": A horse which meets the
			 conditions of the race.
(26)
			 "Encryption", "Encrypted", "Encoded": The scrambling or other manipulation of
			 the audiovisual signals to mask the original video content of the signal and so
			 cause such signals to be indecipherable and unrecognizable to any person
			 receiving such signal without using a decoder.
(27) "Engagement": The obligation of a jockey
			 or horse to participate in a race.
(28) "Equipment": As applied to a horse, it
			 includes the whip, blinkers, tongue restraint, muzzle, hood, nose band, bit,
			 shadow role, martingale, breast plate, bandages in excess of six inches in
			 length, boots, tail tie, plates and other items as approved by the Oregon
			 Racing Commission.
(29) "Exotic
			 Wager": Any single wager where three or more separate wagering interests are
			 required to be selected.
(30) "Foal
			 Certificate" or "Registration Papers": A document issued by the appropriate
			 horse registry used for the identification and proof of ownership of the
			 horse.
(31) "Forfeit Money": Money
			 due by a licensee because of error, fault, neglect of duty, or penalty imposed
			 by order of the stewards.
(32)
			 "Free Handicap": A race in which no liability for entrance money is
			 incurred.
(33) "Futurity": A race
			 for 2-year-olds, except Arabians which is for 3-year-olds, in which nominations
			 are made a considerable time before the running of the race, often before the
			 entered horse is born.
(34)
			 "Handicap": A race in which the weights to be carried by the horses are
			 assigned by the racing secretary or handicapper for the purpose of equalizing
			 the chances of winning for all horses entered.
(35) "Horse": Any horse (including and
			 designated as a mare, filly, stallion, colt, ridgling, or gelding) registered
			 for racing under the jurisdiction of the commission and which requires a jockey
			 to race.
(36) "Host", "Host
			 Association", "Host Track": The race track licensee conducting a licensed race
			 meet when it is authorized by the Oregon Racing Commission to simulcast racing
			 programs.
(37) "Hub": A
			 multi-jurisdictional simulcasting and interactive wagering totalizator hub is a
			 business that, through a qualified subscriber based service, conducts
			 pari-mutuel wagering on the races that it simulcasts and other races that it
			 carries in its wagering menu.
(38)
			 "Ineligible": A horse or person not qualified under these rules or the
			 conditions of a race to participate in a specified racing activity.
(39) "In Today Horse": Any horse which has an
			 opportunity to run in a race and enters again on the next day that entries are
			 taken.
(40) "Inquiry":
(a) Action initiated by the board of stewards
			 involving determination as to whether or not a foul has occurred during the
			 running of a race.
(b)
			 Investigation by the board of stewards of a violation or as a result of
			 objection, to determine if a violation occurred.