Section 017-1-1 - DefinitionsAs used in these rules, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1.Added Money Early Closing Event. Added Money Early Closing Event means an event closing in the same year in which it is to be contested, all entrance fees received are added to the purse.2.Age. Age means the age of a horse as reckoned from the first day of January of the year of foaling.3.Also Eligibles. Also Eligibles means a horse that is not initially scheduled to race, but is eligible to race and may race in place of a horse that has been scratched.4.Amateur Driver. Amateur Driver means a driver who has never accepted any valuable consideration by way of or in lieu of compensation for his services as a driver.5.Appeal. Appeal means a request for the Commission to consider and review any decisions or rulings of Judges or Officials of a meeting.6.Association. Association means any person or persons, or legalized business entity licensed by the Commission to conduct harness racing and or pari-mutuel wagering or both within the State of Maine.7.Authorized Agent Authorized Agent means a person who has been authorized to act on the behalf of another.8.Break. Break means the act of a horse going off-gait.9.Breeder. Breeder means the owner of the dam at the time of foaling.10.Breeding Place. Breeding Place means the place of the horse's conception.11.Commission. Commission means the Maine Harness Racing Commission.12.Commission Chemist. Commission Chemist means a licensed and qualified chemist designated by the Department as the Commission Chemist.13.Commission Veterinarian. Commission Veterinarian means the veterinarian designated by the Department to perform veterinary services as called for in these rules. The Commission Veterinarian must be a veterinary practitioner licensed to practice in the State of Maine.14.Coupled Entry. Coupled entry means two or more horses starting in a race when owned or trained by the same person, or trained in the same stable or by the same management, or grouped as part of the mutuel field.15.Dash. Dash means a race decided in a single trial.16.Declaration. Declaration means the entering of a particular horse to a particular race.17.Department. "Department" means the Department of Agriculture. Conservation and Forestry.18.Disqualification. Disqualification means that a horse is disqualified from receiving a purse or record for the position in which it finished.19.Distanced. Distanced means a horse is more than 25 lengths behind the winner.20.Double Dash. Double Dash means a race consisting of two separate trials for equal purses contested on the same program.21.Drug. Drug means: A. Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopeia, the official Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States or the National Formulary or any supplement to any of them; and Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) whether applied internally or externally.B. Articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or other animals; andC. Articles (other than foods) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; andD. Articles intended for use as a component of any articles specified in paragraphs 1, 2, or 3; but does not include devices or their components, parts, or accessories. The term drug does not include water, in liquid or frozen state, or heat.
22.Drug Paraphernalia. Drug Paraphernalia means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are used or intended for use in injecting, ingesting, inhaling, applying or otherwise introducing a prohibited substance into or onto the body of a horse.23.Draw. Draw means the act of selecting the horses for a race and determining their post positions.24.Early Closing Race. Early Closing Race means a race for a definite amount to which entries close at least six weeks preceding the race.25.Elimination Heats. Elimination Heats mean the heats of a race to qualify the contestants for a final heat.26.Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage. Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage means a condition in the horse resulting in the presence of blood in the tracheobronchial tree following periods of competitive exercise. A horse diagnosed with Exercised Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage may or may not show the presence of blood in the tracheobronchial tree.27.Expulsion. Expulsion means the loss of all privileges and the disqualification to participate, either directly or indirectly, in of the course and grounds of a licensed Association.28.Extended Meet. Extended Meet means a series of pari mutuel harness horse races, except harness horse races conducted by an agricultural society at the time of its annual fair.29.Field Horse. Field Horse means any horse that has been coupled as part of the mutuel field.30.Foreign substance. Foreign substance means any medication in the controlled medication program, any alkalinizing agent, or any prohibited substance.31.Free Legged Pacer. Free Legged Pacer means a horse racing on the pacing gait without hopples.32.Futurity. Futurity means a stake in which the dam of the competing animal is nominated either when in foal or during the year of foaling.33.Grounds. Grounds means all land and structures of an Association, including, but not limited to: race track, pari-mutuel area, paddock and barn area, grandstand and clubhouse area, and parking lot used for harness racing activities.34.Handicapped Race. "Handicapped Race" means a race in which an artificial advantage is given or a disadvantage is imposed on a contestant to equalize the chances of winning.35.Head Pole. Head Pole means a device used to hold a horse's head straight.36.Heat. Heat means a single trial in a race two in three, or three heat plan.37.Hippodroming. Hippodroming means a race in which special financial arrangements have been offered for a horse to enter.38.Hopples. Hopples means the straps used to keep a horse on a gait.39.Hypodermic injection. Hypodermic injection means an injection given to a horse, including but not limited to injections given into or under the skin or mucosa and into blood vessels, joints and bursar, trachea, muscles, or the eye or related structures.40.Interference. Interference means any act, in violation of these rules which, by design or otherwise, impedes, hampers or obstructs the forward progress of any competing horse or horses.41.Invitational or Invitation Race. Invitational or Invitation Race means a race to which only those horses named by the Race Secretary and listed by the Race Secretary with the Presiding Judge, shall be eligible.42.Judges. Judges means the Judges of the meeting, one of whom shall be the Presiding Judge.43.Judge's Book. Judge's Book means a summary report recording all occurrences and events in a race, for example times, breaks, and track conditions.44.Late Closing Race. Late Closing Race means a race for a fixed amount of money to which entries close less than six weeks and more than three days before the race is to be contested.45.Licensee. Licensee means any Association or person receiving a license from the Commission.46.Licensed Agricultural Fair. "Licensed Agricultural Fair" means an agricultural fair that has been awarded a license under 8 M.R.S. §271 for the holding of harness horse races with pari-mutuel pools or meets for public exhibitions.47.Maiden. Maiden means a stallion, mare or gelding that has never won a heat or race at the gait at which it is entered to start and for which a purse is offered.48.Match Race. Match Race means a race which has been arranged and the conditions thereof agreed upon between the contestants.49.Matinee Race. Matinee Race means a race with no entrance fee and where the premiums, if any, are other than money.50.Month. Month means a calendar month.51.Morning Line. Morning Line means the pre-race prediction of what each horse could pay upon winning.52.Multiple-wagering pool. "Multiple-wagering Pool" means a wagering pool combining two or more horses in a single wager.53.Mutuel Field. Mutuel Field means, when the individual horses competing in a race exceed the numbering capacity of the Tote Board, the highest numbered horse within the capacity of the Tote Board and all horses of a higher number shall be grouped together and called the Mutuel Field.54.Nomination. Nomination means the naming of a horse to a special advertised event.55.Nominator. Nominator means the person making a nomination.56.Offended Horse. Offended Horse means a horse that has been interfered with.57.Offending Horse. Offending Horse means a horse that has interfered with another horse.58.Off-Time. Off-Time means the moment at which, on signal of the Starting Judge, the horses officially start.59.Open Class. Open Class means a group of horses so designated by the Race Secretary.60.Open Stretch. Open Stretch means that portion of a track in the homestretch where the inner edge of the racing surface has been moved in towards the middle of the track, creating an additional lane known as the inner lane.61.Out of Competition Testing for Blood and/or Gene Doping Agents. "Out of Competition Testing" means testing of samples that are obtained from a horse at times other than when it is at a racetrack for competitive racing.62.Out-ticket. Out-ticket means a ticket that is not cashed at the close of the day's racing.63.Overnight Event. Overnight Event means a race for which declarations close not more than three days (omitting Sundays) before such race is to be contested.64.Owner. Owner means the sole owner, part owner or lessee of a horse.65.Pace. Pace means the lateral gait of a horse.66.Paddock. Paddock means an enclosure to which horses scheduled to compete in a race program are confined prior to racing.67.Parked Out. Parked Out means a horse has raced in an outside lane for over a quarter of a mile.68.Person. Person is any individual, partnership, corporation, or other association or entity.69.Poor Prformance. "Poor Performance" means when a horse performs in a manner inconsistent with its previously demonstrated ability or fails to meet eligibility standards.70.Preferred Race. Preferred Race means a race which includes the best horses at the meet.71.Prohibited substance. "Prohibited substance means A. any substance, including, but not limited to, a narcotic, stimulant, depressant, tranquilizer, local anesthetic, analgesic, drug or drug metabolite, medication of any type or biological substance, at a level greater than the level found in the normal, untreated horse orB. any substance, regardless of how harmless or innocuous, that might interfere with the detection or quantitation of a narcotic, stimulant, depressant tranquilizer, local anesthetic, analgesic, drug or drug metabolite, medication of any type or biological substance at a level greater than the level found in the normal untreated horse.72.Protest. Protest is a sworn written complaint filed with the judges prior to the running of the race alleging a breach of the rules or conditions that a horse is ineligible to race.73.Purse. The monetary amount that is distributed to the finishers of a race.74.Race Lines. Race Lines means a record of a horse's past racing performance, including but not limited to finish times and position and times at the quarters and half.75.Race Winner. Race Winner means the horse deemed the winner of a race by the Judges after determining the official placings and the Official sign has been posted.76.Racing Officials. Racing Officials means the following officials: Associate Judge; Charter; Clerk of Course, Horse Identifier; Paddock Judge; Presiding Judge; Program Director; Race Secretary and Starter/Patrol Judge.
77.Racing Year. Racing Year means the period from January 1 through December 31 which is commonly known as a calendar year.78.Recall. Recall means a call to re-form the horses in a race behind the starting gate.79.Recovery Slip. Means a form supplied by the commission that is signed by a licensed veterinarian indicating that a horse is certified fit to race.80.Scoring. "Scoring" means a horse warming up on the track after the post parade prior to being called to the starting gate by the starter.81.Scratch. Scratch means the act of removing an entered horse from a race after the draw.82.Scratch Time. Scratch Time means the time that the Presiding Judge clears the program for printing.83.Simulcast or Simulcasting. Simulcast or simulcasting means live audiovisual electronic signals emanating from a licensed horse race meeting and transmitted simultaneously with the running of the races at that meeting. These terms shall also include the transmission of pari-mutuel wagering odds, amounts wagered and payoffs on such events.84.Split Sample. "Split Sample" means a portion of the test sample obtained from a horse or human.85.Stake. Stake means a race which will be contested in a year subsequent to its closing.86.Starters. The horses shall be deemed to have started when the Starter gives the word "go" and all the horses must go the course except in case of an accident, broken equipment, or any other reason in which it is the opinion of the judges that it is impossible or unsafe to go the course.87.State testing area. State testing area means the location at a track where all horses designated for testing shall be taken so that necessary test samples may be obtained from the horse.88.Sustained. Sustained means the payment necessary to keep a horse eligible to a certain class.89.Sulky. Sulky means a dual shaft, dual wheel racing vehicle.90.Supplemental Purse. Supplemental Purse means the purse made available pursuant to Title 8, Maine Revised Statutes, §290.91.Suspension. "Suspension" means all privileges granted to a licensee of the Commission by the officials of a race meeting or by the Commission have been withdrawn.92.Test level. Test level means the concentration of a foreign substance found in the test sample.93.Test sample. Test sample means any body substance, including but not limited to saliva, feces, blood or urine, taken from a human or taken from a horse under the supervision of the Commission or the Commission Veterinarian and in the manner prescribed by the Commission. Test sample includes, but is not limited to, pre-race samples, post-race samples and out of competition samples.94.Tote Board. Tote Board means a board that shows the odds on the horses in the race.95.Trainer. "Trainer" means the person responsible for the care and condition of a horse.96.Trot. Trot means the diagonal gait of a horse.97.Two in Three. Two in Three means in a two in three race a horse must win two heats to be entitled to first money.98.Walk Over. Walk Over means a race in which the only starters are under the same ownership.99.Winner. Winner means the horse so designated by the Presiding Judge.100.Win, Place and Show Wager. Win, Place, and Show Wager means a wager on a single horse.101.Wire. Wire means a real or imaginary finish line at right angles to the track.102.Year. Year means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. Year, used for a date, means year of our Lord.