Mich. Admin. Code R. 431.3075

Current through Vol. 24-10, June 15, 2024
Section R. 431.3075 - Workout clockers; clocking

Rule 3075.

(1) The executive director shall employ a steward as clocker. The clocker shall make a record of all morning workouts or any morning trials on the race course of a race meeting or training center race course. A record of all workouts and trials must be provided to the racing secretary.
(2) Every occupational licensee who exercises a horse shall correctly identify to the clockers the horse he or she is exercising and shall state the distance over which the horse is to be worked and the point at which the workout is intended to begin.
(3) Horses working between races shall also be identified and their times announced. A horse shall not be permitted to work between races without the permission of the stewards and notification to necessary racing officials to ensure safety.
(4) A horse that has not started for 45 days is ineligible to race until it has completed 1 or more timed workouts satisfactory to the stewards before the day of the race in which the horse is entered. If such workouts do not appear in the daily racing form, they shall be published, where possible, in the track program the day of the race in which the horse is entered or shall be posted in 3 places in the racing plant for public inspection.
(5) A horse that has never started shall have not less than 2 published workouts, 1 being from the starting gate. The gate workout must be approved by the official starter.
(6) The stewards may scratch a horse whose recent workouts have not been properly recorded.

Mich. Admin. Code R. 431.3075

1985 AACS; 2007 AACS; 2009 AACS; 2021 MR 6, Eff. 3/26/2021