Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-7-22

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 112-7-22 - Post to finish

(a) No horse shall be permitted to start unless it has been tattooed and fully identified.

(b) Each horse shall take a position in numerical order from the inside rail. The order shall be determined by post positions.

(c) Each horse shall be a starter after the doors of the starting gate in front of it open when the official starter dispatches the horses.

(d) Each horse shall be ridden past the finish line in every race and shall carry the assigned weights from the post to finish, unless disquali-fied.

(e) Each horse that leaves the course during a race shall be disqualified.

(f) The following rules shall apply to the running of a race.

(1) In a straightaway race, each jockey shall maintain the horse as nearly as possible in the lane in which it starts.

(2) Each jockey shall make a best effort to control and guide the mount in such a manner as not to cause a foul.

(3) No jockey shall willfully strike or touch another jockey or another jockey's horse or equipment during a race for the purpose of interfering with the horse or jockey. No jockey shall strike the jockey's horse on or about the head.

(4) Any rider may be fined or suspended, or both, by the stewards for willful fouling or careless riding. The nature and seriousness of the offense shall be considered by the stewards.

(5) Any jockey whose horse has been disqualified or who unnecessarily causes the horse to change or shorten its stride for the purpose of losing a race may be fined or suspended.

(g) The stewards shall be vested with the discretion to determine the propriety and nature of a disqualification and whether it applies to any other part of an entry. The stewards' decision shall be final.

(1) To determine the disqualification of a horse in any race, the stewards may either place the horse behind the horse or horses with which they believe it interfered, they may place it last or they may unplace it.

(2) When a horse of one ownership or interest is coupled with a horse or horses of the same or another ownership or interest, the disqualification of one shall not necessarily affect the placing of the other.

(h) Each jockey shall give the best effort in races. Any instructions or advice to jockeys to ride or handle their mounts except for the purpose of winning shall be prohibited and shall subject each person giving or following those instructions or advice to disciplinary action by the stewards and the commission. If two horses run in one interest in any race, each horse shall be ridden to give its best effort.

(i) Only the owner, trainer or jockey alleged to be aggrieved shall make a protest relating to the running of the race. Each protest shall be made to the stewards, the outrider if designated by the stewards or the clerk of scales before or immediately after weighing in. Any owner, trainer or jockey who makes a frivolous protest may be fined or suspended.

(j) No person shall help a jockey remove the equipment that is to be included in the jockey's weight from the jockey's horse unless the stewards give permission.

(k) No person shall throw any covering over any horse at the place of dismounting until the jockey has removed the equipment that is to be included in the jockey's weight.

(l) Each dead heat shall be governed in the following manner.

(1) If two or more horses run a dead heat, the dead heat shall not be run off.

(2) Each horse shall be considered a winner in a dead heat for first place.

(3) If two or more horses finish in a dead heat and a protest is filed and allowed against a horse that finished in front of the dead heat, the horses that ran the dead heat shall be deemed to have run from the higher position.

(4) Owners of horses that finish in a dead heat for any position shall divide equally all money and other prizes. If no agreement is reached as to which of them shall receive an indivisible prize, they shall draw lots for it in the presence of one or more of the stewards.

(m) If a race is run by all of the horses at the wrong weights or over a wrong distance, and if a protest is filed and allowed before the flashing of the "official" sign on the totalisator board, the stewards shall declare the race no contest.

(n) Each of the following procedures shall apply if any horse is disabled or otherwise is unable to finish a race.

(1) The horse shall be dismounted, unsaddled and removed from the racetrack without passing the stand. The horse shall not be destroyed on the racetrack or in the presence of the public without the permission of the stewards.

(2) If a bone is broken and the horse is disabled, the horse shall remain on the racetrack until the horse ambulance arrives and removes it.

(3) If destruction of the horse is necessary, the animal health officer shall destroy the horse by use of an intravenous injection out of the vision of the public. If destruction in the view of the public is necessary, an ambulance screen shall be made available by the organization licensee.

(4) If a horse is disabled, a drug test for prohibited substances shall be performed on the horse. If destruction of the horse is necessary, a postmortem examination may be performed upon order of the stewards at the expense of the owner.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-7-22

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 1991 Supp. 74-8804, as amended by L. 1992, Ch. 27, Sec. 3, and L. 1992, Ch. 286, Sec. 2; effective, T-112-2-23-89, Feb. 23, 1989; effective June 19, 1989; amended, T-112-8-13-92, Aug. 13, 1992; amended, T-112-12-10-92, Dec. 10, 1992; amended Feb. 15, 1993.