Entries

1. Filing. The association shall provide forms for making entries and declarations with the racing secretary. Entries and declarations shall be in writing, or by telephone or other electronic communication subsequently confirmed in writing by the owner, trainer, or authorized agent. When any entrant or nominator claims failure or error in the receipt by an association of any entry or declaration, such entrant or nominator may be required to submit evidence within a reasonable time of the filing of the entry or the declaration. 2. Posting. Upon the closing of entries, the racing secretary shall promptly compile a list of entries and cause it to be conspicuously posted. 3. Coupling. a. Entry coupling. When one or more horses entered in a race have a common owner, the horses must be coupled as an entry. However, a trainer may enter two horses, separately owned, for wagering purposes. One of the horses must be preferred. If the race overfills, only one may start. If the race does not overfill, both horses may start and run as separate betting interest. Except in time trials and stakes races, there is no limit on the number of horses a single owner or trainer may run in that race and all entrants may race uncoupled with the steward's permission for wagering purposes. If an infraction occurs where, in the opinion of the stewards, the act which led to the disqualification served to unduly benefit the owner or trainer of the other entrant, the stewards may, at their discretion, disqualify the other parts of the owned or trained entrants. b. Coupled entries prohibited. Coupled entries may not be permitted to race on any program in a race which is part of a daily double. c. Coupling of entries by stewards. The stewards shall couple as a single entry any horses which, in the determination of the stewards are connected by common ownership or by a common trainer or when the stewards determine that coupling is necessary in the interest of the regulation of the pari-mutuel racing industry or necessary to the public confidence in racing. d. Coupled entry excluding others. A coupled entry may not be permitted to enter or start if the effect of the entry is to deprive an uncoupled single entry horse from starting. 4. Splitting of a race. If a race is canceled and declared off for insufficient entries, the association may split the list of entries for any other overnight race to provide an additional race to replace the one canceled. The racing secretary shall by lot divide the entries of the race so split into two different races. 5. Entry weight. Owners, trainers, or any person duly authorized by either who enter a horse for a race shall ensure that the entry is correct and accurate as to the weight allowances available and claimed for the horse under the conditions set for the race. After a horse is entered and has been assigned a weight to carry in the race, the assignment of weight may not be changed except in the case of error. 6. Horses run once daily. No horse may be entered for more than one race on the same day on which pari-mutuel wagering is conducted. 7. Foreign entries. For the purposes of determining eligibility, weight assignments, or allowances for horses imported from a foreign nation, the racing secretary shall take into account the "European Pattern Race Book" published jointly by the Irish turf club, the jockey club of Great Britain, and the societe d'encouragement. 110 yards = 100 meters 1 furlong = 200 meters 1 mile = 1,600 meters 8. Weight conversions. For the purposes of determining eligibility, weight assignments, or allowances for horses imported from a foreign nation, the racing secretary shall convert metric distances to English measures by reference to the following scale: 9. Name. The "name" of a horse means the name reflected on the certificate of registration or racing permit or temporary racing permit issued by the applicable horsemen's organization. Imported horses shall have a suffix, enclosed by brackets, added to their registered names showing the country of foaling. This suffix is derived from the International Code of Suffixes and constitutes part of the horse's registered name. The registered names and suffixes, where applicable, must be printed in the official program.