Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part VIII - State Horse Racing Commission › Subpart E - Thoroughbred Rules of Racing (Horse) › Chapter 303 - LICENSING, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THOROUGHBRED OCCUPATIONAL LICENSEES-TEMPORARY REGULATIONS › TRAINERS › Section 303.15 - 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 §
											§
											303.13 and
						303.14 (relating to trainer
						responsibility rule; and responsibilities of trainers), a trainer shall also be
						responsible for:
(1) The condition and
					 contents of stalls, tack rooms, feed rooms, sleeping rooms and other areas
					 which have been assigned by the association;
(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 association 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
					 Commission shall be notified by the trainer, in writing, within 24 hours of any
					 change;
(5) Ensuring the adequate
					 care, custody, condition, fitness, health, safety and security of horses under
					 his/her 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 Stewards and recorded by
					 the racing secretary;
(7) Training
					 all horses owned wholly or in part by the trainer which are participating at
					 the race meeting;
(8) Registering
					 with the racing 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 racing secretary;
(10)
					 Immediately reporting the alteration of the sex of a horse in the trainer's
					 care to the horse identifier and the racing secretary, whose office shall note
					 the alteration on the certificate of registration;
(11) Promptly reporting to the racing
					 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 his/her care on association grounds to the Stewards and
					 the Commission Veterinarian and compliance 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
					 weight or other allowances claimed;
(16) Ensuring the fitness of a horse to
					 perform creditably 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 of 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 with a type
					 of safety reins that are approved by the Commission that are originally
					 designed and constructed to insure a secure secondary connection to the bit and
					 reinforcement to prevent breakage;
(20) Presenting the trainer's horse in the
					 paddock at least 20 minutes 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 and supervising the saddling thereof, unless excused by
					 the Stewards;
(21) Instructing the
					 jockey to give the jockey's best effort during a race and that each horse shall
					 be ridden to win;
(22) 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
(23) 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 Stewards may approve the transfer of
					 the horses to the care of another licensed trainer, and upon the approved
					 transfer, the horses may be entered to race. Upon transfer of the horses, the
					 inactive trainer shall not be involved in any arrangements related to the care,
					 custody or control of the horses and shall not benefit financially or in any
					 other way from the training of the horses.