811 KAR 2:035. Associations

      Section 1. Maintenance of Grounds, Facilities and Uniform Track. Each association shall at all times maintain its grounds and facilities so as to be neat and clean, painted and in good repair, with special consideration for the comfort and safety of patrons, employees, and other persons whose business requires their attendance; with special consideration for the health and safety of horses there stabled, exercising, or entered to race; and shall have available adequate and proper implements to maintain uniform track, weather conditions permitting.

 

      Section 2. Result Boards, Totalizators Required. Each association shall provide and maintain mechanically operated totalizators and electronic boards showing odds, results, and other race information located in plain view of patrons.

 

      Section 3. Starting Gate. Each association shall provide and maintain a working starting gate on every day horses are permitted to exercise on its racing strip. Each association shall have in attendance one or more men qualified to keep said starting gates in good working order whenever said gates are in use, and each association shall provide for periodic inspections of said gates.

 

      Section 4. Stabling. Each association shall be responsible for providing and maintaining fire-resistant barns and stalls in good repair, and in a clean and sanitary condition; each barn and each stall shall be numbered in consecutive order for ready ascertainment of location and identification and adequate drainage therefor shall be maintained. The racing secretary shall submit to the stewards prior to the opening of each race meeting a list of locations of approved off-track stabling facilities from which horses may be permitted to race; such locations shall be considered for purposes of these rules "association grounds."

 

      Section 5. Stands for Officials. Each association shall provide and maintain stands commanding an uninterrupted view of the entire racing strip for racing officials, such stands and location thereof to be approved by the commission. Patrol judge stands shall be constructed so the floor thereof shall be at least six (6) feet higher than the track rail.

 

      Section 6. Permanent markers must be located at each standard Arabian, quarter horse and appaloosa distance as applicable. Distance pole markers and permanent markers must be located where they can be seen clearly from the judge's stand. Each post shall be identified by color: such as, 220 yds., white; 250 yds., blue; 300 yds., yellow; 330 yds., green; 350 yds., red; 400 yds., black; 440 yds., orange; 550 yds., blue and white stripe; 660 yds., yellow and white stripes; 770 yds., green and white stripes; and 870 yds., red and white stripes. In addition, for appaloosa races, markers shall be located at six (6) and six and one-half (6 1/2) furlongs to be painted yellow and white and orange and white, respectively.

 

      Section 7. Lighting. Each association shall provide and maintain flood lights so as to insure adequate illumination in the stable area and parking area. Adequacy of track lighting for night racing shall be determined by the commission.

 

      Section 8. Facilities for Stable Employees. Each association shall provide and maintain in good repair adequate living quarters and conveniently located sanitary facilities such as showers, toilets, and wash basins, for stable employees. No person shall be permitted to sleep in any stall.

 

      Section 9. Facilities for Jockeys. Each association shall provide and maintain adequate facilities for jockeys scheduled to ride each day, such facilities to include accommodations for rest and recreation of jockeys on racing days, showers, toilets, wash basins, mirrors, arrangements for safekeeping of apparel and personal effects, snack bar, and other accommodations as requested by the clerk of scales.

 

      Section 10. Facilities for Commission. Each association shall provide adequate office space for the commission on association grounds and shall make available to the commission, and mark accordingly, a season box of six (6) to eight (8) seats and appropriate parking places for use of the commission throughout each racing day. Each association shall honor for access to preferred parking facilities and all other areas on association grounds any ring, lapel button, or automobile emblem issued at any time by the commission, or by the National Association of State Racing Commissioners.

 

      Section 11. Sanitary Facilities for Patrons. Each association shall on every racing day, provide adequate and sanitary toilets and wash rooms, and furnish free drinking water for patrons and persons having business at the association.

 

      Section 12. Manure Removal. Each association shall provide and maintain adequate manure pits of such size and construction to handle refuse from stalls. The contents of said manure pits shall be removed from the stable area as promptly as is possible.

 

      Section 13. Photo Finish Cameras. Each association shall provide and maintain at the finish line two (2) electronic photo finish cameras with mirror image for photographing the finish of races and recording the time of each horse in 100ths of a second; one (1) electronic camera to be held in reserve. The photo finish photographer shall promptly furnish to the stewards and placing judges prints of all finishes as may be requested and in such number as may be required for public posting. The association shall maintain a one (1) year file of all such photo finishes.

 

      Section 14. Patrol Films or Video Tapes. Each association shall at all times during a race meeting provide and maintain personnel and equipment necessary to produce adequate motion pictures or video tapes and record with same each race from start to finish.

      (1) Projection or viewing equipment shall be adequate to permit simultaneous showing of head-on and side-angle views of the running of each race.

      (2) Such films and video tapes shall be retained and secured by the association for not less than one (1) year and shall be available at all times to the commission and stewards. Each visual record of a race involving any question, dispute, or controversy shall be filed with the commission upon order of the stewards.

      (3) Such films, or video tapes, shall be made available for viewing at the track by licensees who owned, trained, or rode a horse in the race requested to be viewed, and to members of the press.

 

      Section 15. (1) Horse ambulances. Each association shall provide and maintain at least one (1) horse-ambulance during times horses are permitted to exercise or race. Said ambulance shall be equipped, with a screen for use when an animal must be destroyed in view of the public and also a winch to lift dead or injured animals onto the ambulance. It shall be manned, ready for immediate duty and shall be located at an entrance to the racing strip.

      (2) Ambulance. At all extended pari-mutuel meetings the licensee shall provide an ambulance equipped consistent with that required by the state of Kentucky to transport a sick, injured or for any other reason, person to a hospital or medical facility. Said ambulance shall be maintained by two (2) or more persons certified by the state to transport individuals to a hospital or medical facility over a public thoroughfare. The ambulance shall be stationed at an entrance to the racing surface allowing for visual contact with the race in progress and shall make a prompt response in the event that one (1) or more jockeys or horses are involved in an accident or there is any other need for emergency transportation. This ambulance shall be stationed no less than one (1) hour before post time of the first race and until the last race is completed. If the ambulance must leave its station for any reason, there shall be a replacement before the next event is contested. Such ambulance shall be stationed at all programmed races, time trials and qualifying races under the rules and administrative regulations of the Kentucky Harness Racing Commission.

 

      Section 16. First Aid Room. Each association shall equip and maintain adequate first aid facilities with not less than two (2) beds and attendance of a competent registered nurse during race hours.

 

      Section 17. Track Kitchen. Each association shall provide adequate eating facilities within the stable area, maintained in a clean and sanitary manner at all times horses are stabled on association grounds.

 

      Section 18. Communication System. Each association shall install and maintain in good working service communication systems between the stewards stand and patrol judges, pari-mutuel department, starting gate, public address announcer, and clerk of the scales.

 

      Section 19. Fire Prevention. Each association shall be responsible for maintaining an adequate program for fire prevention and fire suppression. Each association within fifteen (15) days before commencement of a race meeting shall be inspected by the state or local fire marshal whose certification that the association plant and stable area meet fire safety requirements is necessary for the commission to approve commencement of the race meeting. Each association shall maintain a firefighting unit of trained personnel equipped with high expansion foam fire extinguishers and other equipment as may be recommended by the local fire inspection authority. Each association shall prohibit:

      (1) Smoking in stalls, under shed rows, and in feed rooms;

      (2) Open fires, oil or gas lamps in stable area; and

      (3) Locking of stalls occupied by horses.

 

      Section 20. Telephone Restricted. (1) No association shall permit communication by any electrical, mechanical, manual, or visual method from wagering area of any information pertaining to any race conducted by the association until at least thirty (30) minutes after the last race of the day is declared official; excepting from the effect of this rule such information as may be transmitted by duly accredited members of the news media for the benefit of the public at large.

      (2) All telephones and telegraph wires in wagering areas shall be closed from fifteen (15) minutes before post time of the first race and remain closed until thirty (30) minutes after the finish of the last race is declared official and no calls or wires shall be allowed to be made or received while such telephone and telegraph wires are closed.

      (3) Excepted from the effect of this rule shall be the transmission of information pertaining to racing by duly accredited members of the news media, and the ordinary conduct of business as may be transmitted by members of the commission and its staff or association officials.

      (4) No association employee shall furnish, other than to authorized persons, any information with respect to entries, scratches, jockey changes, or track conditions for any race.

 

      Section 21. Association Police. Each association shall provide and maintain competent police and watchman services, night and day, in and about association grounds, and shall furnish daily to the commission a report on any disturbances, drunkenness, or disorderly conduct committed by any person on association grounds.

 

      Section 22. Security. Each association shall cause to be excluded from association grounds all persons designated by order of the commission or stewards to be excluded. Each association shall take such measures as to maintain security of horses on association grounds so as to protect from injury due to frightening of or tampering with said horses. Each association shall exclude from the paddock area, race strip, and winner's entrance all persons who have no immediate connection with the horses entered except members of the commission, racing officials, and duly accredited members of the news media.

 

      Section 23. Vendors and Suppliers. Each association shall supervise the practice and procedures of all vendors of food, horse feed, medication, and tack, who have entry to the stable area. No association by virtue of this rule shall attempt to control or monopolize proper selling to owners, trainers or stable employees, nor shall an association grant a concession to any vendor of feed, racing supplies, or racing services. Any vendor of horse feeds or medications shall file with the commission veterinarian a list of products which he proposes to sell, including any new preparation or medication. No association shall permit the sale of any alcoholic beverage, beer excepted, within the stable area.

 

      Section 24. Ejection or Exclusion from Association Grounds. (1) Associations may eject or exclude any persons, licensed or unlicensed, from association grounds or a part thereof solely of its own volition and without any reason or excuse given therefor, provided, however, such ejection or exclusion is not founded on race, creed, color, or national origin.

      (2) Associations shall eject or exclude from association grounds all persons believed to be engaged in a bookmaking activity or solicitation of bets or touting, and a report thereof shall be submitted promptly to the commission, to the stewards, and to the local police.

      (3) Associations shall eject or exclude from the stable area on association grounds all persons except those whose presence in the stable area is authorized as:

      (a) Persons licensed to conduct an activity, the conduct of which requires the presence of such licensee in the stable area;

      (b) Duly accredited members of the news media;

      (c) Guests of a licensed owner or licensed trainer physically in the company of such owner or trainer;

      (d) Persons physically in the company of and under the control and supervision of a racing official, or association security guard, or association public relations department representative.

      (4) Reports of all ejections or exclusions from association grounds for any reason shall be made immediately to the commission and the stewards, such reports stating the name of all persons and circumstances involved.

 

      Section 25. Ownership of Associations. Each association shall file with the commission a revised list of persons whose identity is required by 811 KAR 2:040, immediately upon transfer of any beneficial interest or control in the association as from time to time may occur.

 

      Section 26. Plan of Association Grounds. Each association shall file with the commission existing maps and plans of association grounds, showing all structures, piping, fire hydrants, fixed equipment, and racing strip, noting elevation as filled, drained, and gapped, and composition of track base and cushion. Each association shall file revised maps or plans of association grounds upon any material change as may occur from time to time.

 

      Section 27. Attendance Report. (1) Each association shall file with the commission daily attendance reports showing a turnstile count of all persons admitted to association grounds where pari-mutuel wagering is conducted; such attendance report shall indicate the daily number of paid admissions and free admissions.

      (2) On request from the commission, each association shall file with the commission a current badge list showing the names of all persons issued tax exempt admission credentials.

      (3) Tax exempt admission credentials shall not be transferable and associations shall exclude or eject from association grounds any person attempting to use such tax exempt admissions credentials not issued to him by the association.

 

      Section 28. Financial Report. In addition to filing with the commission copies of reports required by KRS 138.530 to be filed with the Department of Revenue on pari-mutuel, each association shall furnish to the commission within sixty (60) days after the close of its fiscal year three (3) copies of its balance sheet and of its operating statement for such fiscal year with comparison to prior year, the same to be duly sworn to by the treasurer of the association and certified by a licensed certified public accountant. Such financial report shall be in such form as may be prescribed from time to time by the commission.

 

      Section 29. Horseman's Bookkeeper. (1) Each association shall maintain a separate bank account, to be known as the "horsemen's account," with at all time sufficient funds in such account to pay all money owing to horsemen in regard to purses, stakes, rewards, claims, and deposits. This account shall at all times be subject to audit by the commission, and the horsemen's bookkeeper in charge of such account shall be bonded in an amount approved by the commission.

      (2) The association shall deposit the total purse money for each day's racing prior to post time of the first race and shall exhibit proof thereof to the stewards. All portions of purse money shall be made available to earners thereof within forty-eight (48) hours (Sundays excluded) after the result of the race in which such money was earned has been declared official; except, however, when the stewards shall order money withheld until final adjudication of a dispute determining which persons are entitled to such money in dispute, or post race tests are not complete.

      (3) All monies received by the association for stakes nominations and subscriptions shall be deposited daily in a separate escrow account to be known as the "stakes account" and the association shall exhibit proof thereof to the stewards. This account shall be subject to audit by the commission, and the bookkeeper in charge of said account shall be bonded in an amount approved by the commission.

      (4) No portion of purse money other than jockey fees shall be deducted by the association for itself or for another, unless so requested in writing by the person to whom such purse monies are payable, or his duly authorized representative. Irrespective of whether requested, the horsemen's bookkeeper shall mail to each owner a duplicate of each record of a deposit, withdrawal or transfer of funds affecting such owner's racing account at the close of each race meeting.

 

      Section 30. Outriders. Each association shall employ at least two (2) outriders to escort starters to the post and to assist in the returning of all horses to the unsaddling area. No outrider shall lead any horse that has not demonstrated unruliness, but shall assist in the control of any horse which might cause injury to a jockey or others. Each association shall wear traditional apparel. Outriders shall be required to be present on the racing strip, mounted, and ready to assist in the control of any unruly horse or to recapture any loose horse, at all times horses are permitted on the racing strip for exercising or racing.

 

      Section 31. Association Veterinarian. (1) Each association shall employ a graduate veterinarian, licensed in Kentucky, experienced in equine medicine and practice, who shall be responsible for inspecting and reporting all horses entered for racing soundness; maintaining and posting in the racing secretary's office a veterinary list of horses ineligible to race because of sickness or unsoundness; control of communicable equine diseases; insect control; sanitary conditions in the stable area, and observe and report all cruel or inhumane treatment of horses to the stewards.

      (2) The association veterinarian shall be attendant on the stewards and the racing secretary at scratch time each day, and shall examine such horses as such racing officials may request, and shall make reports to such racing officials as promptly as possible.

      (3) The association veterinarian shall be responsible for inspecting every horse entered on the day of the race for which such horse is entered. Such inspection shall be for physical fitness, general conditions, and for any noticeable unsoundness or peculiarities that may affect the racing condition of the horse or be considered for scratching a horse on a muddy or sloppy track. Such prerace examinations shall be recorded on a health record for every starter at the race meeting.

      (4) The association veterinarian shall be present in the paddock for saddling, shall accompany each field to the starting post, and observe all horses after the finish of each race. If, in the opinion of the association veterinarian, a horse suffers an injury while in the paddock, during the post parade, or at the starting gate, which injury shall render such horse unfit to race, he shall recommend to the stewards that the horse be excused and placed on the veterinary list. All horses requested to be scratched for physical reasons after scratch time shall be inspected by the association veterinarian who shall report the condition of such horse to the stewards.

      (5) No association veterinarian during his employment by an association shall be permitted to engage in private veterinary practice involving Arabians, quarter horses or appaloosa; nor be employed by or receive any compensation directly or indirectly from any licensed owner or trainer; nor sell or buy, for himself or another, any Arabian, quarter horse or appaloosa; nor place any wager in any manner on any race run at the association; nor sell any drug supplies; nor sell horse insurance; nor be licensed to participate in racing in any other capacity.

 

      Section 32. Horse Identifier. Each association shall employ one (1) or more persons to be charged with the responsibility of proper identification of all horses entered to be raced. A horse identifier may accompany the association veterinarian on the prerace examination of all starters. Every starter shall be examined in the paddock by a horse identifier for sex, age, color, markings, and lip tattoo, for comparison with its registration certificate; photographs may be used as an aid in identification. If a horse identifier has any doubt as to the identity of a horse entered to be raced, the horse identifier shall so notify the paddock judge and the stewards.

 

      Section 33. Valets. Each association shall employ a sufficient number of persons licensed as valets to attend each individual rider on a day's racing program. Such valets shall be under the immediate supervision and control of the clerk of scales. No rider shall employ a valet or be attended by any person other than the valet assigned to him by the clerk of scales. No valet shall be assigned to the same rider for more than two (2) consecutive racing days. Valets shall be responsible for the care and cleaning of his assigned riders apparel and equipment; shall insure his rider has the proper equipment and colors for each race; shall present the proper equipment and attend the saddling of his rider's mount; and shall attend the weighing out of his rider. No valet or other jockey room attendant may place a wager for himself or another, directly or indirectly, on races run while he is serving as a valet. Each association shall provide uniform attire for valets who shall wear same at all times while performing their duties within public view.

 

      Section 34. Minimum Purse and Stakes Values. No association shall program or run any race the purse for which is less than $500 in cash without special permission of the commission. No association shall program or run any stakes race the added value of which is less than $1,000 in cash added by the association to stakes fees paid by owners. Such minimum cash amounts paid by the association shall be exclusive of nomination, eligibility, entrance, and starting fees, and exclusive of other cash awards, premiums, prizes, or objects of value.

 

      Section 35. Maximum Number of Races. No association shall program or run more than nine (9) races on any single racing day without special permission of the commission. (Recodified from 812 KAR 1:035, 6-10-87; Am. 14 Ky.R. 1666; eff. 3-10-88.)

Notation

      RELATES TO: KRS 230.610-230.770

      STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 13A.010 et seq.

      NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: To regulate conditions under which quarter horse, appaloosa and Arabian racing shall be conducted in Kentucky. The function of this administrative regulation outlines the requirements for racing associations.