71 Ind. Admin. Code 6-4-4

Current through December 4, 2024

Section 71 IAC 6-4-4 - Nominations, fees, and purses

Authority: IC 4-31-3-9

Affected: IC 4-31

Sec. 4.

(a) All nominations to added money events must be made in accordance with the conditions.

(b) Dates for added money event nominations payment are as follows:

(1) For stakes, the date for closing of nominations on yearlings shall be May 15. The date for closing of nominations to all other stakes shall fall on the fifteenth day of a month.

(2) For futurities, the date for closing of nominations shall be July 15 of the year of foaling.

(3) For early closing events, the date for closing of nominations shall fall on the first or fifteenth day of a month. Nominations on two (2) year-olds shall not be taken prior to February 15.

(4) For late closing events, the date for closing of nominations shall be at the discretion of the sponsor or presenter.

(c) Dates for added money event sustaining payments are as follows:

(1) For stakes and futurities, sustaining payments shall fall on the fifteenth day of a month. No stake or futurity sustaining fee shall become due prior to March 15 of the year in which the horses nominated become two (2) years of age.

(2) For early and late closing events, sustaining payments shall fall on the first or fifteenth day of a month.

(d) The starting fee shall become due when a horse is properly declared to start and shall be payable in accordance with the conditions of the added money event. Once a horse has been properly declared to start, the starting fee shall be forfeited, whether or not the horse starts. Should payment not be made thirty (30) minutes before the post time of the event, the horse may be scratched and the payment shall become a liability of the owner who shall, together with the horse or horses, be suspended until payment is made in full, provided the association notifies the commission within thirty (30) days after the starting date.

(e) Failure to make any payment required by the conditions constitutes an automatic withdrawal from the event.

(f) Conditions that will eliminate horses nominated to an event, or add horses that have not been nominated to an event by reason of performance of such horses at an earlier meeting, are invalid. Early and late closing events shall have not more than two (2) also eligible conditions.

(g) The date and place where early and late closing events will be raced must be announced before nominations are taken. The date and place where stakes and futurities will be raced must be announced as soon as determined but, in any event, such announcement must be made no later than March 30 of the year in which the event is to be raced.

(h) Deductions may not be made from nomination, sustaining, and starting payments or from the advertised purse for clerical or any other expenses.

(i) Every nomination shall constitute an agreement by the person making the nomination and the horse shall be subject to these rules. All disputes and questions arising out of such nomination shall be submitted to the commission, whose decision shall be final.

(j) Nominations and sustaining payments must be received by the sponsor or presenter not later than the hour of closing, except those made by mail must bear a postmark placed thereon not later than the hour of closing. In the event the hour of closing falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the hour of closing shall be extended to the same hour of the next business day. The hour of closing shall be midnight of the due date.

(k) If conditions require a minimum number of nominations and the event does not fill, the commission and each nominator shall be notified within twenty (20) days of the closing of nominations and a refund of nomination fees shall accompany such notice to nominators.

(l) If conditions for early or late closing events allow transfer for change of gait, such transfer shall be to the lowest class the horse is eligible to at the adopted gait, eligibility to be determined at the time of closing nominations. The race to which the transfer may be made must be the one nearest the date of the event originally nominated to. Two (2) year-olds, three (3) year-olds, or four (4) year-olds, nominated in classes for their age, may only transfer to classes for the same age group at the adopted gait to the race nearest the date of the event they were originally nominated to, and entry fees to be adjusted.

(m) A nominator is required to guarantee the identity and eligibility of nominations, and, if this information is given incorrectly, he or she may be fined, suspended, or expelled and the horse declared ineligible. If any purse money was obtained by an ineligible horse, the monies shall be forfeited and redistributed among those justly entitled to the same.

(n) Early or late closing finals must be contested if five (5) or more horses are declared to start unless otherwise specified in the race conditions of the early closing or late closing event. If fewer horses are declared to start than required, the race may be declared off, in which case the total of nominations, sustaining, and starting payments received shall be divided equally to the horses declared to start. Such distribution shall not be credited as purse winnings.

(o) Stakes or futurities must be contested if one (1) or more horses are declared to start. In the event only one (1) horse or only horses in the same interest start, it constitutes a walk-over. In the event no declarations are made, the total of nomination and sustaining payments shall be divided equally to the horses remaining eligible after payment to the last sustaining payment, but such distribution shall not be credited as purse winnings.

(p) Associations shall provide stable space for each horse declared on the day before, the day of, and the day following the race.

(q) In the event more horses are declared to start than allowed in one (1) field, the race will be conducted in divisions or eliminations, as specified in the conditions.

(r) In early closing races, late closing races, and overnight races requiring entry fees, all monies paid in by the nominators in excess of eighty-five percent (85%) of the advertised purse shall be added to the advertised purse and the total shall then be considered to be the minimum purse. If the race is split and raced in divisions, the provisions of subsection (s) shall apply. Where overnight races are split and raced in eliminations rather than divisions, all starting fees payable under the provisions of this rule shall be added to the advertised purse.

(s) Where a race other than a stake or futurity is divided, each division must race for at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the advertised purse.

(t) In added money events conducted in eliminations, starters shall be divided by lot. Unless conditions provide otherwise, sixty percent (60%) of the total purse will be divided equally among the elimination heats. The final heat will be contested for forty percent (40%) of the total purse. Unless the conditions provide otherwise, all elimination heats and the final heat must be raced on the same day. If the conditions provide otherwise, elimination heats must be contested no more than six (6) days, excluding Sundays, prior to the date of the final heat. The winner of the final heat shall be the winner of the race.

(u) The number of horses allowed to qualify for the final heat of an event conducted in elimination heats shall not exceed the maximum number permitted to start in accordance with these rules.

(v) The judges' decisions in arriving at the official order of finish of elimination heats on the same program shall be final and irrevocable and not subject to appeal or protest.

71 IAC 6-4-4

Indiana Horse Racing Commission; 71 IAC 6-4-4; emergency rule filed Aug 10, 1994, 3:30 p.m.: 17 IR 2910; emergency rule filed Mar 25, 1996, 10:15 a.m.: 19 IR 2075; emergency rule filed Feb 13, 1998,10:00 a.m.: 21 IR 2402; emergency rule filed Jun 8, 1999, 9:31 a.m.: 22 IR 3126, eff May 26, 1999 [IC 4-22-2-37.1 establishes the effectiveness of an emergency rule upon filing with the secretary of state. LSA Document #99-108E was filed with the secretary of state June 8, 1999.]; emergency rule filed Feb 20, 2001, 10:08 a.m.: 24 IR 2103; errata filed Jun 21, 2001, 3:21 p.m.: 24 IR 3652; readopted filed Oct 30, 2001, 11:50 a.m.: 25 IR 899; readopted filed Mar 23, 2007, 11:31 a.m.: 20070404-IR-071070030RFA; readopted filed November 26, 2013, 11:25 a.m.: 20131225-IR-071130345RFA

Readopted filed 8/28/2019, 1:23 p.m.: 20190925-IR-071190319RFA

Readopted filed 8/3/2023, 12:49 p.m.: 20230830-IR-071230428RFA