C-72.1, r. 5 - Rules respecting Standardbred horse races held at an amateur race track

Section 201 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

201. Following an interference, a collision or a break in gait that hinders another horse or following a violation of section 187, the racing judge 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 judge must 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 186, the racing judge 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 judge must disqualify that horse, unless the horse left the racing strip following an interference, a collision or an interference or a collision of which the horse was a victim. The racing judge determines 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 96-07-24, s. 201.