294 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1, § 294-1.001
The following definitions and interpretations shall apply in the rules unless the text otherwise requires:
ADDED MONEY is the money an association adds to fees paid by the horsemen.
AGE OF HORSES is reckoned as beginning on the first day of January in the year in which the horse is foaled.
ASSOCIATION is any person or persons, associations or corporations licensed by the Commission to conduct horse racing within the State of Nebraska for any stake, purse or reward.
AUTHORIZED AGENT is a person appointed by a written instrument, signed and acknowledged before a notary public by the owner and filed with the Commission in accordance with the rules.
BREEDER of a horse is the owner of its dam at the time of foaling.
"BRED" - A horse is "bred" at the place of its birth.
CALENDAR DAY is twenty-four (24) hours ending at midnight.
COMMISSION means the Nebraska State Racing Commission.
COUPLED ENTRY - two or more contestants in a contest that are treated as a single betting interest for pari-mutuel wagering purposes (see also rule 1.001.11 ENTRY).
DECLARATION shall mean the act of withdrawing an entered horse from a race before the closing of overnight entries.
ENTRY is:
EQUIPMENT as applied to a horse, shall mean whips, blinkers, tongue straps, muzzles, hoods, nosebands, bits, shadow rolls, martingales, breast plates, bandages, boots, plates, etc.
FIELD means:
FORFEIT shall mean money due because of an error, fault, neglect of duty, breach of contract, or a penalty.
FRAUDULENT AND/OR CORRUPT PRACTICE means any attempt to enrich oneself or associates, or gain any advantage, through unfair, unlawful or dishonest behavior in connection with the racing of horses.
HORSE includes colt, filly, gelding, mare and ridgling. For racing purposes and programming, a horse shall be designated as follows:
MALE: Horse, Colt, Gelding or Ridgling. (A horse is an entire male five (5) years old or older.)
FEMALE: Filly or Mare. (A filly becomes a mare when five (5) years old.)
JOCKEY is a race rider, whether a licensed jockey or an apprentice, male or female.
LESSEE: A person and/or persons who have leased a horse for racing purposes.
LICENSEE may mean an Association licensed by the Commission to conduct a race meeting or those licensed to participate in any other capacity on the grounds of an Association during the race meeting.
MAIDEN is a horse that has never won an official or recognized race as defined in breed registry rules. A maiden which has been disqualified after finishing first is still to be considered a maiden.
A "Maiden" is a horse which, at the time of starting, has never won a race on the flat in any country.
A "Race" includes a stake, a purse, a sweepstakes, a private sweepstakes, a match or an overnight event, but does not include a steeplechase or hurdle race.
MAIDEN is a horse which at time of starting has never won a race recognized by the AQHA. A maiden which has been disqualified after finishing first is still a maiden.
MEETING - Entire consecutive period for which license to race has been granted to any one Association by the Commission.
MONTH is a calendar month.
NOMINATOR means the person in whose name a horse is entered for a stakes or handicap race.
OWNER includes sole owner, part owner or lessee (lessee cannot claim unless he or she is sole owner of another horse which qualifies him or her to claim). An interest in the winnings of a horse does not constitute part ownership.
PLACE in racing shall mean first, second, third, or fourth, and in that order is called "Win", "Place", "Show", and "Fourth".
POST POSITION is the position in the starting gate assigned to a horse for a race.
POST TIME is the time set for the arrival at the starting point of the horses in a race and must be shown a reasonable time prior to the race on a clock device provided for that purpose, prominently displayed and clearly readable from the grandstand.
RECOGNIZED MEETING shall be any meeting wherever held under the sanction of a turf authority having reciprocal relations with the Nebraska State Racing Commission and other turf authorities (approved by said Commission) for the mutual enforcement of rulings imposed on persons guilty of fraudulent turf practices of any kind.
RULES shall mean the Rules and Regulations herein prescribed and any amendments or additions thereto.
STEWARDS shall mean the Stewards of the meeting or their duly appointed deputies.
RACE DAY means any period of twenty-four (24) hours beginning at midnight and included in the period of a racing meeting - and in the matter of penalties the word "Day" means a "Race Day".
SCRATCH shall mean the act of withdrawing an entered horse from the race after the closing of overnight entries.
SCRATCH TIME shall mean the time set by the association for the closing of applications for permission to withdraw from races of that day.
STARTER - A horse is a "Starter" for a race when the stall doors of the starting gate open in front of it at the time the starter dispatches the horses. STARTER is also the name used to designate the official whose duty it is to give the starting signal at the beginning of the race.
SUBSCRIPTION shall mean the act of nominating to a stakes race.
TOTE or TOTE BOARD shall mean the totalisator or totalisator odds board.
UNTRIED HORSE is one whose produce are maidens.
YEAR shall mean a calendar year.
DEFINITIONS OF RACES
RACE - A contest between horses for purse, stakes, premium, wager for money or entrance fees on any licensed course and in the presence of a judge or judges.
CLAIMING RACE is a race in which any horse entered therein may be claimed in conformity with the rules.
HANDICAP is a race in which the weights to be carried by the entered horses are adjusted by a Handicapper.
MATCH is a Private Sweepstakes between two (2) horses which are the property of two (2) different owners. If prior to the running of the race either of the horses entered in the match dies, or if either owner dies the match is void. It remains a match even if money or any other award is added to the stakes. (Not allowed in Nebraska unless by special permission of the Nebraska State Racing Commission.)
OPTIONAL CLAIMING RACE is a race restricted to horses entered to be claimed for a stated claiming price and to those which have started previously for that claiming price or less. In the case of horses entered to be claimed in such a race the race will be considered, for the purpose of these rules, a claiming race.
OVERNIGHT RACE is one for which entries close seventy-two (72) hours, or less, before the time set for the first race of the day on which such race is to be run.
PRODUCE RACE is one in which the produce of horses named or described at the time of entry are contestants.
PURSE RACE is a race for money or any other prize to which the owners of the horses engaged do not contribute.
STAKES RACES OR SWEEPSTAKES is a race to which nominators of the engaged entries contribute to a purse; to which money, or any other award may be added, but no overnight race, regardless of its conditions, shall be deemed a stakes race.
WALK OVER - When two (2) horses in entirely different interests do not run in a race.
WEIGHT FOR AGE - Standard weight assigned by these rules to horses according to their ages.
294 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1, § 294-1.001