C-72.1, r. 4 - Rules respecting Standardbred horse races held at a professional race track

Section 285 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

285. Following an interference, a collision or a break in gait that hinders another horse or following a violation of section 271, the racing judges may set back the horse responsible by 1 or more positions; in such a case, the horse may be set back behind all the horses affected by the interference, the collision, the break in gait or the violation.

Where the interference, the collision, the break in gait or the violation prevents a horse from finishing the race, the racing judges shall disqualify the horse responsible.

Where a horse finishing in a dead heat with another horse is affected by an interference, a collision, a break in gait or a violation of section 271, the racing judges may set the horse responsible back behind all the horses that finished in the dead heat.

Where, during a race, a wheel of a horse’s sulky leaves a racing strip that does not have a continuous hub rail, the racing judges may disqualify that horse, unless the horse left the racing strip following an interference or a collision of which the horse was a victim. When racing judges disqualify a horse for leaving the racing strip, they shall determine the position order of the horses.

For the purposes of the fourth paragraph, a horse is deemed to have left the racing strip where the wheel of the sulky crosses the imaginary line between 2 posts in a non-continuous hub rail.

Decision 90-09-19, s. 285; Decision 96-05-27, s. 41; Decision 2000-11-08, s. 60.