N.D. Admin. Code 69.5-02-01-01
1. "Act" means North Dakota Century Code chapter 53-06.2.
2. "Added money" means money offered for an event by an association.
3. "Age" of a horse must be reckoned from the first day of January of the year of foaling.
4. "Association" means a person, association, society, or body corporate conducting a race meeting.
5. "Bred" means the place of foaling of a horse.
6. "Breeder" means the owner of the dam of a horse at the time of foaling.
7. "Claiming race" means a race in which every horse racing therein may be claimed in conformity with this regulation.
8. "Day" means twenty-four hours ending at midnight.
9. "Declaration" means an indication in the prescribed form of an intention to start a horse in a race.
10. "Entry" means two or more horses starting in a race when owned in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by the same person, or trained in the same stable or by the same management.
11. "Extended meeting" means a meeting of ten days or more.
12. "Fair meeting" means a meeting of less than ten days.
13. "Futurity" is a stake race in which the in foal dam of the competing animal, or the animal itself is nominated during the year of the foaling.
14. "Horse" means a horse, mare, colt, filly, or gelding.
15. "Judges' list" means a list of horses that are refused declaration.
16. "Maiden" means a horse that:
a. Has never won a heat or race at the gate at which it is entered to start and for which a purse is offered, excluding schooling races;
b. Has been awarded a race or purse money after the "official sign" was posted but is not considered as a winning performance; or
c. Although having finished first in a race for which a purse was or is offered was or is subsequently disqualified.
17. "Meeting" means the period of time during which races are run consecutively at one racetrack.
18. "Owner" includes a part owner or lessee but does not include a person who has an interest in only the winnings of a horse.
19. "Person" includes a racing association.
20. "Post position" means the position assigned to a horse for the start of the race.
21. "Post time" means the time set for the arrival at the starting point of the horses in a race.
22. "Qualifying list" is a list of horses that are required to go a qualifying race.
23. "Qualifying race" means a race in which a horse must establish its ability to participate at a race meeting consistent with the qualifying standards established for a class of horse.
24. "Racing season" means the period during which races are conducted in North Dakota in any calendar year and includes any meeting commencing in one calendar year and concluding in the next ensuing calendar year.
25. "Rules" means the rules of racing covering harness racing prescribed in this article as amended from time to time, and includes those directives and rulings that may from time to time be made by the commission of horse racing, the executive director for the commission, or the judges with respect to conducting harness horse racing.
26. "Stake" means a race open to all horses, complying with its conditions and in which the nominators of the horses entered contribute to the purse.
27. "Starter" means:
a. The person who dispatches a field of horses at a race.
b. A horse that has passed the fair start pole when the starter dispatches the horses with the word "go".
28. "Sustaining fees" includes interim, declaration, and starting fees or payments.
29. "Turf authority" means the official regulatory body of racing in a jurisdiction.
30. "Walkover" is an event in which the only competitor is one horse or one entry.
N.D. Admin Code 69.5-02-01-01
General Authority: NDCC 53-06.2-04, 53-06.2-05, 53-06.2-10
Law Implemented: NDCC 53-06.2-01, 53-06.2-04, 53-06.2-05, 53-06.2-10