Section 71IAC6-3-1. General provisions

   (a) For the purpose of this rule, overnight events shall include:

(1) conditioned;

(2) claiming;

(3) preferred;

(4) invitational;

(5) handicap;

(6) open;

(7) free-for-all;

(8) schooling; or

(9) matinee races;

or a combination thereof.

  (b) At extended meetings, condition sheets must be available to participants at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to closing declarations to any race program contained therein. At other meetings, conditions must be posted and available to participants at least eighteen (18) hours prior to closing declarations.

  (c) A fair and reasonable racing opportunity shall be afforded both trotters and pacers in reasonable proportion from those available and qualified to race.

  (d) Substitute races may be provided for each race program and shall be so designated in condition books sheets. A substitute race may be used when a regularly scheduled race fails to fill.

  (e) Regularly scheduled races or substitute races may be divided where necessary to fill a program of racing or may be divided and carried over to a subsequent racing program subject to the following:

(1) No such divisions shall be used in the place of regularly scheduled races which fill.

(2) Where races are divided in order to fill a program, starters for each division must be determined by lot after preference has been applied unless the conditions provide for divisions based upon age, performance, earnings, or sex.

(3) Where necessary to fill a card, not more than one (1) race per day may be divided into not more than two (2) divisions after preference has been applied. The divisions may be selected by the racing secretary. For all other overnight races that are divided, the division must be by lot unless the conditions provide for a division based on performance, earnings, or sex.

  (f) Amateur races shall not be used as pari-mutuel betting events. (Indiana Horse Racing Commission; 71 IAC 6-3-1; emergency rule filed Aug 10, 1994, 3:30 p.m.: 17 IR 2908; readopted filed Oct 30, 2001, 11:50 a.m.: 25 IR 899; emergency rule filed Jan 21, 2004, 2:30 p.m.: 27 IR 1917; readopted filed Nov 29, 2011, 12:52 p.m.: 20111228-IR-071100776RFA)