327. Unless the conditions for participation in a special race provide otherwise, where a special race is cancelled or declared finished, the amount of the nomination fees and any sustaining and starting fees not awarded shall be equally divided among the owners of the horses that would have started in the race that was cancelled or in the cancelled heats of a race that was declared finished.
Where a stake or futurity race is cancelled under section 165, the nomination and sustaining fees shall be equally divided among the owners of the horses still in nomination after the last payment of sustaining fees, if any.
The amounts thus divided shall not be compiled in the winnings of those horses.
Decision 90-09-19, s. 327.