✨ Handicapping Rules
3374 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144 30 SEPTEMBER 2009
216 (1) The Handicapper may amend the allotted weight and/or rating of a horse only if:
(a) the Chief Executive is satisfied that the allotted weight and/or rating was incorrect because of:
(i) a clerical error at the time of release of such weight and/or rating;
(ii) incomplete or inaccurate information on the performances, age, sex or identity of that horse; or
(iii) an error by the Handicapper in the assessment of the age or sex of any entry or of the conditions of the Race; or
(b) the amendment is a rehandicap or imposition of a penalty, as a result of that horse winning another Race, and the amendment is made prior to the official scratching time on Race day.
(2) The Handicapper may, with the permission of the Chief Executive and before the relevant Withdrawal Deadline, issue a substitute set of weights and/or ratings for a Handicap Race only when:
(a) a correctly nominated horse was not included in the original weights; or
(b) the original weights were not in accordance with the conditions of the Race.
(3) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Rule, an error in the allotted weight and/or rating of any horse in a Weight-for-Age, set weight or set weight and penalties Race may be corrected at any time.
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