If a stakes race is not run or declared or cancelled, stakes money and entrance money or fees shall be returned to the person contributing such stakes or entrance money. No refund of entrance or stakes money shall be refunded due solely to the death of a horse or his failure to start, or upon a finding by the stewards that the horse entered was ineligible to enter such stakes race or was ineligible to start in such race.
Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 4, § 1626