✨ Thoroughbred Racing Rules
RULES OF RACING
PART I
APPLICATION, INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS
APPLICATION
101 (1) These Rules shall apply to all Races, Race Meetings and all matters connected with racing, and shall apply to and be binding on:
(a) NZTR;
(b) all Clubs and Club Committees; and agents, employees and officers of every such Club;
(c) all Licensed Persons and others working in or about any racing stable, or in connection with the management, care, control or superintendence of racehorses and their training and riding;
(d) all Owners, lessees and any persons comprising or having a legal or beneficial interest (either directly or indirectly) in an Owner, lessee or Legal Ownership Entity that is an Owner or lessee, or in a Legal Ownership Entity that has a legal or beneficial interest (either directly or indirectly) in an Owner or lessee under these Rules, and the Racing Manager, as applicable, thereof;
(e) all persons seeking admission to or attending any Racecourse on which any Race Meeting is held;
(f) all Horse Breeders;
(g) every person who in any manner directly or indirectly, by himself or any other person on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person, does or attempts to do any act or thing for the purpose of securing any right, benefit or privilege which he or any such other person is not entitled to receive under these Rules, or to evade any disability of any kind imposed on him or any such other person by or under these Rules;
(h) every person who aids, abets, counsels or procures a breach of these Rules (and such person shall be liable to the same penalty as is provided for the actual breach);
(i) every person who so acts as to bring himself within the purview of these Rules; and
(j) all Judicial Committees and Appeals Tribunals.
(2) These Rules shall apply to any horse:
(a) as soon as it is taken in hand by any person for the purpose of being trained for racing;
(b) whether then taken in hand or not as aforesaid, as soon as it is entered for any Race or trial (including a jump-out or test for certification purposes), or registered under these Rules;
(c) irrespective of the two last preceding paragraphs, at all times when it is in the possession or ownership of a disqualified person, or (during the period of disqualification) while it is in the ownership or possession of any person to whom it was sold or otherwise disposed of, after the commission of the breach or Serious Racing Offence in respect of which his disqualification was imposed; or
(d) generally when anything is required or otherwise provided to be done under these Rules in respect of such horse.
(3) All bodies and persons to whom these Rules are applied as aforesaid shall at all times be deemed to have full knowledge of these Rules, and of their rights, duties, liabilities and obligations thereunder, and to agree to be bound by the decisions and acts of all tribunals and persons authorised by these Rules to act and give decisions.
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