811 KAR 2:010. Definitions.
RELATES TO: KRS Chapter 230
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 230.215, 230.225(5),
230.260, 230.361(1), 230.370
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS
230.215(2) grants the commission the authority to regulate conditions under which
quarter horse, appaloosa and Arabian racing shall be conducted in Kentucky. KRS
230.260(8) grants the commission the authority to prescribe necessary and
reasonable administrative regulations and conditions under which horse racing
at a horse race meeting shall be conducted in this state. KRS 230.361(1)
requires the commission to promulgate administrative regulations governing and
regulating mutuel wagering on horse races under the pari-mutuel system of
wagering. This administrative regulation defines the terms used in 811 KAR
Chapter 2.
Section 1. Definitions. (1) "Added
money" means cash, exclusive of trophy or other award, added by the
association to stake fees paid by subscribers to form the total purse for a
stakes race.
(2) "Age" means the number of
years since a horse was foaled, reckoned as if the horse was foaled on January
1 of the year in which the horse is foaled.
(3) "Allowance race" means a
race in which contestants receive weight allowance based on performance or
winnings as stipulated in the conditions of the race.
(4) "Appaloosa horse" means a
horse duly registered with the Appaloosa Horse Club, Inc., Moscow, Idaho.
(5) "Arabian horse" means a
horse duly registered with the Arabian Horse Club Registry of America.
(6) "Arrears" means money due
for entrance fees, jockey fees, nomination or supplemental fees in stake races,
fines, purchase money in claiming races, and any default incidental to 811 KAR
Chapter 2.
(7) "Association" is defined by
KRS 230.210(1).
(8) "Authorized agent" means an
agent appointed by a notarized document signed by the owner or jockey and filed
annually with the commission.
(9) "Betting interest" means a
single horse or more than one (1) horse joined as a mutuel entry or joined in
the mutuel field, on which a single pari-mutuel wager may be placed.
(10) "Bleeder" means any horse
known to have bled internally or from its nostrils during a workout or race.
(11) "Breakage" means the net
pool minus the payout.
(12) "Bred" means the place at
which a horse is foaled.
(13) "Breeder" means the owner
of the dam of a horse when serviced.
(14) "Calendar days" means
consecutive days counted irrespective of number of racing days.
(15) "Carryover" means
nondistributed pool monies which are retained and added to a corresponding pool
in accordance with 811 KAR Chapter 2.
(16) "Claiming race" means any
race in which every horse running in the race may be transferred in conformity
with 811 KAR Chapter 2.
(17) "Closing" means the time
published by the association after which entries for a race will not be
accepted.
(18) "Commission" means:
(a) The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission
(formerly known as the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority and defined in KRS
230.210(2)) if used in the context of the administrative agency governing horse
racing and pari-mutuel wagering; and
(b) If used in the context of pari-mutuel
wagering, the amount an association is authorized to withhold from a
pari-mutuel wager pursuant to KRS 230.3615.
(19) "Corrupt practice" means any
attempt to enrich oneself or one's associates or gain an advantage, through
unfair, unlawful, or dishonest behavior in connection with the racing of
horses.
(20) "Day" means any
twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at midnight.
(21) "Dead heat" means a finish
of a race in which the noses of two (2) or more horses reach the finish line at
the same time.
(22) "Declaration" means
withdrawal of a horse entered in a race prior to the time of closing of entries
for the race in conformance with 811 KAR Chapter 2.
(23) "Designated area" means
any enclosed area that the commission has approved for the location of
terminals used for wagering on an historical horse race.
(24) "Directive" means an
official order issued by the commission.
(25) "Disciplinary action"
means action taken by the stewards or the commission for a violation of KRS
Chapter 230 or 811 KAR Chapter 2 and can include:
(a) Refusal to issue or renew a license;
(b) Revocation or suspension of a license;
(c) Imposition of probationary conditions
on a license;
(d) Issuance of a written reprimand or
admonishment;
(e) Imposition of fines or penalties;
(f) Denial of purse money;
(g) Forfeiture of purse money; or
(h) Any combination of paragraphs (a)
through (g) of this subsection.
(26) "Disqualification" means
an order of the stewards or commission revising the order of finish of a race.
(27) "Entry" means the act of
nominating a horse for a race in conformance with 811 KAR Chapter 2.
(28) "Equipment" means
accoutrements other than ordinary saddle, girth, pad, saddle cloth, and bridle
carried by a horse, and includes whip, blinkers, tongue strap, muzzle, hood,
noseband, bit, shadow roll, martingale, breast plate, bandages, boots, and
racing plates or shoes.
(29) "Exhibition race" means a
race between horses of diverse ownership for which a purse is offered by the
association, but on which no pari-mutuel wagering is permitted.
(30) "Exotic wager" means any
pari-mutuel wager placed on a live or historical horse race other than a win,
place, or show wager placed on a live horse race.
(31) "Field" or "mutuel
field" means a single betting interest involving more than one (1) horse
which is not a mutuel entry.
(32) "Forfeit" means money due
by a licensee because of an error, fault, neglect of duty, breach of contract,
or alternative order of the stewards or commission.
(33) "Foul" means any action by
any jockey that tends to hinder another jockey or any horse in the proper
running of the race.
(34) "Free handicap" means a
handicap for which no nominating fee is required to be weighted, but an
entrance or starting fee may be required for starting in the race.
(35) "Handicap race" means a
race in which the weights to be carried by the horses are assigned by the association
handicapper with the intent of equalizing the chances of winning for all horses
entered in the race.
(36) "Handle" means the
aggregate of all pari-mutuel pools, excluding refundable wagers.
(37) "Historical horse race"
means any horse race that:
(a) Was previously run at a licensed
pari-mutuel facility located in the United States;
(b) Concluded with official results; and
(c) Concluded without scratches,
disqualifications, or dead-heat finishes.
(38) "Horse" means a quarter
horse, appaloosa, or Arabian registered as such with the American Quarter Horse
Association in Amarillo, Texas, or the Appaloosa Horse Club, Inc., in Moscow,
Idaho, irrespective of age or sex designation.
(39) "Ineligible" means a horse
or person not qualified under 811 KAR Chapter 2 or conditions of a race to
participate in a specified racing activity.
(40) "Initial seed pool" means
a nonrefundable pool of money funded by an association in an amount sufficient
to ensure that a patron will be paid the minimum amount required on a winning
wager on an historical horse race.
(41) "Jockey" means rider
currently licensed to ride in races as a jockey, amateur jockey, or a
provisional jockey permitted by the stewards to ride in two (2) races prior to
applying for a license.
(42) "Kentucky bred" means a
foal dropped by a mare after being bred in Kentucky.
(43) "Kentucky race" means a
race in which the contestants are Kentucky bred and foaled horses as stipulated
in the conditions of the race.
(44) "Lessee" means licensed
owner whose interest in a horse is a leasehold.
(45) "Licensed premises" means
the location and physical plant described in response to question P of the
"Commonwealth of Kentucky Initial/Renewal Application for License to
Conduct Live Horse Racing, Simulcasting, and Pari-Mutuel Wagering" filed
for racing to be conducted in 2010. Licensed premises may also include real
property of an association, if the association receives approval from the commission
for a new location at which live racing will be conducted.
(46) "Licensee" means an individual,
firm, association, partnership, corporation, trustee, or legal representative that
has been duly issued a currently valid license to participate in racing in the Commonwealth.
(47) "Maiden" means a horse
which shows in the Daily Racing Form, the American Quarter Horse Chart Book, or
the Appaloosa Chart Book as never having won a race on a track recognized by
the commission. A maiden which has been disqualified after finishing first in a
race is still a maiden.
(48) "Match race" means a race
between two (2) horses for which no other horses are eligible.
(49) "Meeting" means the entire
period of consecutive days, exclusive of Sundays and dark days, granted by the
commission to a licensed association for the conduct of live horse racing, beginning
at 10 a.m. of the first racing day and extending through a period ending one
(1) hour after the last scheduled race of the last day.
(50) "Minus pool" means a
pari-mutuel pool in which the amount of money to be distributed on winning
wagers exceeds the amount of money contained in the net pool.
(51) "Month" means calendar
month.
(52) "Mutuel entry" means a
single betting interest involving two (2) or more horses entered in the same
race and joined for pari-mutuel purposes because of common ties as to ownership
or training so that a wager on one (1) horse joined in a "mutuel
entry" is a wager on all horses joined in the same "mutuel
entry."
(53) "Net pool" means the total
amount wagered less refundable wagers and takeout.
(54) "Nomination fee" means a
fee to keep a horse eligible to run in a stakes race.
(55) "Nominator" means any
person in whose name a horse is entered for a stake race.
(56) "Off time" means the
moment at which, on signal of the starter, the horses break and run.
(57) "Owner" means any person
who holds, in whole or in part, any right, title, or interest in a horse, or
any lessee of a horse, who has been duly issued a currently valid owner's
license as a person responsible for the horse.
(58) "Pari-mutuel wagering",
"mutuel wagering", or "pari-mutuel system of wagering" each
mean a system or method of wagering approved by the commission in which patrons
are wagering among themselves and not against the association and amounts wagered
are placed in one (1) or more designated wagering pools and the net pool is
returned to the winning patrons.
(59) "Patron" means an
individual present at a track or a simulcast facility who observes or wagers on
a live or historical horse race.
(60) "Payout" means the amount
of the net pool payable to an individual patron on his or her winning wager.
(61) "Place" if used in the
context of a single position in the order of finish in a race, means second; if
used in the context of pari-mutuel wagering, a "place" wager is one
involving a payoff on a betting interest which finished first or second in a
race; if used in the context of multiple positions in the order of finish in a
race, "place or placing" means finishing first, second, or third.
(62) "Post" means the starting
point of a race.
(63) "Post position" means the
relative place assigned to each horse, numbered from the inner rail across the
track at the starting line, from which each horse is to start a race.
(64) "Post time" means the time
set for the arrival at the starting point of the horses in a race.
(65) "Prize" means the combined
total of any cash, premium, trophy, and object of value awarded to the owners
of horses according to order of finish in a race.
(66) "Purse" means the gross
cash portion of the prize for which a race is run.
(67) "Purse race" means any
race for which entries close at a time designated by the racing secretary, and
for which owners of horses entered are not required by its conditions to contribute
money toward its purse.
(68) "Quarter horse" means a
horse registered with the American Quarter Horse Association of Amarillo,
Texas.
(69) "Race" means a running
contest between horses, ridden by jockeys, over a prescribed course free of
obstacles or jumps, at a recognized meeting, during regular racing hours, for a
prize.
(70) "Race day" means any
period of twenty-four (24) hours beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at midnight
in which live racing is conducted by an association.
(71) "Racing official" means a
racing commission member, commission staff as duties require, and all
association racing department employees, as duties require.
(72) "Recognized meeting" means
any race meeting conducted under jurisdiction of any legally constituted board
or commission conducted with approval of the American Quarter Horse Association
of Amarillo, Texas, or the Appaloosa Horse Club, Inc., of Moscow, Idaho.
(73) "Recognized tracks" means
tracks that are conducting recognized meetings.
(74) "Registration certificate"
means the document issued by the American Quarter Horse Association of Amarillo,
Texas, or the Appaloosa Horse Club, Inc., of Moscow, Idaho, certifying the
name, age, color, sex, pedigree, and breeder of a horse as registered by number
with the American Quarter Horse Association or the Appaloosa Horse Club.
(75) "Result" means the part of
the official order of finish in a race used to determine the pari-mutuel payoff
of pools.
(76) "Ruled off" means denial
of entrance to premises of any association under jurisdiction of the
commission.
(77) "Rulings" means all
determinations, decisions, or orders of the stewards or of the commission duly
issued in writing and posted.
(78) "Schooling race" means a
race designed to correct deficiencies in horses before being eligible for
entry.
(79) "Scratch" means withdrawal
of a horse entered for a race after time of closing of entries for the race in
conformance with 811 KAR Chapter 2.
(80) "Scratch time" means time
set by the racing secretary as a deadline for horsemen to indicate their desire
to scratch out of a race.
(81) "Secretary" means duly
appointed and currently serving secretary of the commission.
(82) "Seed pool" means a pool
of money funded by patrons wagering on an historical horse race that is used to
ensure that all patrons are paid the minimum payout on winning wagers.
(83) "Specimen" means a sample
of blood, urine, or other biologic sample taken or drawn from a horse for
chemical testing.
(84) "Stakes" mean all fees
paid by subscribers to an added-money or stakes race for nominating,
eligibility, entrance, or starting, as may be required by the conditions of the
race, the fees to be included in the purse.
(85) "Stakes race" means a race
which closes more than seventy-two (72) hours in advance of its running and for
which subscribers contribute money towards its purse.
(86) "Starter" means either:
(a) An official who dispatches the horses
from the starting gate; or
(b) A horse in a race when the starting
gate doors open in front of it at the moment the starter dispatches the horses
for the race.
(87) "Steward" means a duly
appointed racing official with powers and duties set out in 811 KAR 2:025
serving at a current meeting in the Commonwealth.
(88) "Subscription" means a fee
to keep a horse eligible to run in a stakes race.
(89) "Suspended" means
withdrawal by the steward or commission of racing privileges.
(90) "Takeout" means the total
amount of money, excluding breakage and any amounts allocated to a seed pool,
withheld from each pari-mutuel pool, as authorized by KRS 230.3615 and 811 KAR
Chapter 2.
(91) "Terminal" means any
self-service totalizator machine or other mechanical equipment used by a patron
to place a pari-mutuel wager on a live or historical horse race.
(92) "Totalizator" means the
system, including hardware, software, communications equipment, and electronic
devices that accepts and processes the cashing of wagers; calculates the odds
and prices of the wagers; and records, displays, and stores pari-mutuel wagering
information.
(93) "Tote" or "tote
board" means the totalizator.
(94) "Trial race" means a race
designed primarily to determine the class of competing horses. A trial may be
run as a purse race or stakes, or it may be run as a "time trial"
with no purse at all. If a trial is run for a purse or stakes so small that the
value to the winner is less than fifty (50) dollars, the winning of the race
shall not be counted against the winner in calculating the weight he shall
carry under the conditions of a subsequent race.
(95) "Unplaced" means a horse
finishing a race outside the pari-mutuel payoff.
(96) "Walkover" means race in
which the only starter or all starters represent single ownership.
(97) "Weigh in" means
presentation of a jockey to the clerk of scales for weighing after a race.
(98) "Weigh out" means a
presentation of a jockey to the clerk of scales for weighing prior to a race.
(99) "Weight" means the number
of pounds carried or to be carried in a race and includes the jockey, his
silks, breeches, and boots, saddle, pad and cloth but excludes the protective
helmet, whip, and bridle.
(100) "Workout" means training
exercise of a horse on the training track or main track of an association
during which the horse is timed for speed over a specified distance.
(101) "Year" means twelve (12)
consecutive months beginning with January and ending with December.
Section 2. Severability. In the event that any provision
or administrative regulation of this chapter is found to be invalid, the
remaining provisions of this chapter shall not be affected nor diminished thereby.
(Recodified from 812 KAR 1:010, 6-10-87; 37 Ky.R. 847; 2872; eff. 7-1-11.)