Section 71IAC7-3-16. Breaking

   (a) When any horse or horses break from their gait in trotting or pacing, their driver shall at once, where clearance exists, take such horse either to the inside or outside and pull it to its gait.

  (b) The following shall be considered violations of subsection (a):

(1) Failure to properly attempt to pull a horse to its gait.

(2) Failure to take to the inside or outside where clearance exists.

(3) Failure to lose ground by the break.

(4) An extended break.

  (c) If there has been no failure on the part of the driver in complying with subsection (a), the horse shall not be set back unless a contending horse on its gait is lapped on the hind quarter of the breaking horse at the finish.

  (d) The judges may set any horse back one (1) or more places if in their judgment any violations as established in subsection (b) or (c) have been committed.

  (e) Any horse making a break which causes interference with other contesting horses shall be placed behind all horses interfered with unless the judges determine that a driver of a trailing horse did not exercise reasonable alertness in avoiding the situation. (Indiana Horse Racing Commission; 71 IAC 7-3-16; emergency rule filed Feb 10, 1994, 9:20 a.m.: 17 IR 1163; emergency rule filed Feb 13, 1998, 10:00 a.m.: 21 IR 2410; readopted filed Oct 30, 2001, 11:50 a.m.: 25 IR 899; emergency rule filed Mar 27, 2002, 10:25 a.m.: 25 IR 2537; readopted filed Mar 23, 2007, 11:31 a.m.: 20070404-IR-071070030RFA; readopted filed Nov 26, 2013, 11:25 a.m.: 20131225-IR-071130345RFA)