DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE Colorado Racing Commission HARNESS RACING 1 CCR 208-2 [Editor’s Notes follow the text of the rules at the end of this CCR Document.] _________________________________________________________________________ 1 CCR 208-2 Harness Racing RE: RULES OF RACING Relates to Chapter 129 Article 2. Colorado Revised Statutes 1963 as amended. RULE 1. — MANDATE By virtue of the authority vested in it by the laws of the State of Colorado, the Colorado Racing Commission has adopted the following Rules, Regulations and Conditions for Harness Racing and Harness Race Meetings hereinafter held in the State of Colorado, and does hereby publish and declare the following Rules, Regulations and Conditions for Harness Racing and Harness Race Meetings in the State of Colorado. RULE 2. — REGISTRATION All matters relating to registration of standard bred horses shall be governed by the rules of the United States Trotting Association. RULE 3. — VIOLATIONS Section 1. Any licensee, judge, owner, trainer, driver, groom, veterinarian, official and mutuel employee violating any of the Rules or Regulations shall be liable upon a finding of such violation to a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or revocation of license, suspension or both, unless otherwise limited in the rules. The conviction of any Corporate Licensee of a violation of any of the rules or regulations may also subject the Officers of the said corporation to a penalty not exceeding that which is hereinabove provided. Section 2. Any attempt to violate any of the Rules and Regulations falling short of actual accomplishment shall be punishable as hereinabove provided. RULE 4. — DEFINITIONS. Section 1. Added Money Early Closing Event. — An event closing in the same year in which it is to be contested in which all entrance and declaration fees received are added to the purse. Section 2. Age, How Reckoned. — The age of a horse shall be reckoned from the first day of January of the year of foaling, except that for foals born in November and December of any year in which case the age shall be reckoned from January 1 of the succeeding year effective November 1, 1970, and thereafter. Code of Colorado Regulations 1 Section 3. Appeal and Review. — A request for the commission to investigate, consider, and review any decisions or rulings of Judges or officials of a meeting. Section 4. Association. — Any person or persons, associations, or corporations licensed by the Commission to conduct harness horse racing within the State. Section 5. Authorized Agent. — Is a person appointed by a written instrument signed by the owner/owners and filed in accordance with the rules, and licensed by the Colorado Racing Commission. Section 6. Breeder. — Of a horse is the owner of its dam at the time of foaling. Section 7. Breeding Place. — Is the place of the horses conception. Section 8. Claiming Race. — One in which any horse starting therein may be claimed for a designated amount in conformance with the rules. Section 9. Classified Race. — A race regardless of the eligibility of horses, entries being selected on the basis of ability of performance. Section 10 Commission. — The Colorado State Racing Commission. Section 11. Condition Race. — An overnight event to which eligibility is determined according to specified qualifications. Such qualifications may be based upon among other things: (a) Horses money winnings in a specified number of previous races or during a specified previous time. (b) A horse's finishing position in a specified number of previous races or during a specified number of previous races or during a specified period of time. (c) Age. (d) Sex. (e) Number of starts during a specified period of time. (f) Special qualifications for foreign horses that do not have a representative number of starts in the United States or Canada. (g) Or any one or more combinations of the qualifications herein listed. (h) Use of records or time bars as a condition is prohibited. Section 12. Dash. — A race decided in a single trial. Dashes may be given in a series of two, or three governed by one entry fee for the series, in which event a horse must start in all dashes. Positions may be drawn for each dash. The number of premiums awarded shall not exceed the number of starters in the dash. Section 13. Declaration. — A declaration is the naming of a particular horse to a particular race as a starter. Section 14. Declarations. — Declarations shall be taken not more than three days in advance (omitting Sunday) for all races except those for which qualifying dashes are provided. Code of Colorado Regulations 2 Section 15. Disqualification. — It shall be construed to mean that the person disqualified is debarred from acting as an official or from starting or driving a horse in a race, or in the case of a disqualified horse, it shall not be allowed to start. Section 16. Early Closing Race. — A race for a definite amount to which entries close at least six weeks preceding the race. The entrance fee may be on the installment plan or otherwise, and all payments are forfeits. Section 17. Elimination Heats. — Heats of a race split according to Rule 13, Sections 2 and 3 to qualify the contestant for a final heat. Section 18. Entry. — 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. Section 19. Expulsion. — Whenever the penalty of expulsion is prescribed in these rules, it shall be construed to mean unconditional exclusion and disqualification from any participation, either directly or indirectly, in the privileges and uses of the course and grounds of a track licensee. Section 20. Extended Pari-Mutuel Meetings. — An extended pari-mutuel meeting is a meeting or meetings, at which no agricultural fair is in progress, with an annual total of more than six days duration with pari-mutuel wagering. Section 21. Fair Start Pole. — A pole erected at the point approximately ten feet nearer the starting point than the pole 1/16th of a mile before the start. The Fair Start Pole shall be yellow in color and shall protrude at least two feet above the inner rail. Section 22. Futurity. — A stake in which the dam of the competing animal or the animal itself is nominated either when in foal or during the year of foaling. Section 23. Green Horse. — One that has never trotted or paced in a race or against time, either double or single. Section 24. Guaranteed Stake. — Same as a stake, with a guarantee by the party opening it that the sum shall not be less than the amount named. Section 25. Handicap. — A race in which performance, sex or distance allowance is made. Post positions for a handicap may be assigned by the Racing Secretary. Post positions in a handicap claiming race may be determined by claiming price. Section 26. Heat. — A single trial in a race two in three, or three heat plan. Section 27. In Harness. — When a race is made to go “in harness” it shall be construed to mean that the performance shall be to a sulky. Section 28. Interference. — Whenever used, this term shall mean any act, which, by design or otherwise, hampers or obstructs any competing horse or horses. Section 29. Invitation Race. — A race to which only those horses named by the Racing Secretary and listed by him with the Presiding Judge, shall be eligible. Section 30. Judges (Stewards). — Shall mean the Judges or Stewards of the meeting or their duly appointed deputies, one of which shall be the Presiding Judge. Section 31. Late Closing Race. — A race for a fixed amount to which entries close less than six weeks and more than three days before the race is to be contested. Code of Colorado Regulations 3 Section 32. Lessee. — A person who holds a contract for the racing of a horse in his name. A notice of the said contract stating the name of the lessor and the name of the lessee and the duration and the conditions of the contract shall be filed with the Racing Secretary and the Commission. For purpose of claiming, a lessee must be the sole lessee. Section 33. Length of Race and Number of Heats. — Races or dashes shall be given at a stated distance in units not shorter than a sixteenth of a mile. The length of a race and the number of heats shall be stated in the conditions. If no distance or number of heats are specified, all races shall be a single mile dash except at fairs and meetings of a duration of 6 days or less, where the race will be conducted in two dashes at one mile distance. Section 34. Licensee. — Any Association receiving a license from the Commission to conduct harness racing with parimutuel wagering or any person licensed by the Commission as a participant in harness racing. Section 35. Maiden. — 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 other than a qualifying race. Races or purse money awarded to a horse after the “official sign” has been posted shall not be considered winning performance or affect status as a Maiden. Section 36. Match Race. — A race which has been arranged and the conditions thereof agreed upon between the contestants. Section 37. Matinee Race. — A race with no entrance fee and where the premiums, if any, are other than money. Section 38. Nomination. — The naming of a horse, or in the event of a futurity, the naming of foal in utero to a certain race or series of races, eligibility of which is conditioned on the payment of a fee at the time of naming and the payment of subsequent sustaining fees and/or starting fees.