PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: September 18, 2000.
Purpose: Update rules to conform with nationally accepted model rules; remove gender specific language.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 260-24-650 Clockers and 260-52-020 Post position.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 67.16.040.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 00-13-004 on June 8, 2000.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
September 27, 2000
Bruce Batson
Executive Secretary
(1) The clocker(s) shall be present during training hours at each track on association grounds, which is open for training, to identify each horse working out and to accurately record the distances and times of each horse's workout.
(2) Each day, the clocker(s) shall prepare a list of workouts that describes the name of each horse which worked, along with the distance and time of each horse's workout.
(3) At the conclusion of training hours, the clocker shall deliver a copy of the list of workouts to the stewards and the racing secretary.
(4) The clocker(s) and his/her representative shall report the time and distance of the horse that best represents the workout which is in the best interest of the public.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 67.16.040. 98-01-145, § 260-24-650, filed 12/19/97, effective 1/19/98.]
Post position shall be determined publicly by lot in the presence of the racing secretary or his deputy. After a regular carded horse or horses have been excused from a race, all horses shall move up in post position order; except in the case of a race on the straightaway, in which case the also-eligible shall take the stall of the horse declared out or scratched. The above rule shall apply unless the association specifically states otherwise in its stakes or condition book.
((Horses shall take their position at the post in the order
in which their names have been drawn, beginning from the inside
rail, but vicious and unruly horses may be placed on the outside,
if necessary.))
[Order 3, § 260-52-020, filed 5/12/69; Rule 210, filed 4/21/61.]