New Zealand Gazette – 2009 – No. 144

Page 3399

✨ Graded Stakes Committee Regulations



30 SEPTEMBER 2009 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144 3399

(b) Any Club that has been put on notice pursuant to paragraph (a) herein in respect of a particular Race is to be advised annually by the Graded Stakes Committee of its assessment of that Race in terms of the criteria set out in sub-Rule (7)(a) of this Rule until such time as either the notice is withdrawn or the Race is downgraded or delisted.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Graded Stakes Committee may at any time, without giving written notice to a Club, downgrade or delist a Race where the Club has made significant changes to the Race in terms of one or more of the following:

(i) the distance of the Race;

(ii) the date of the Race;

(iii) the stake money;

(iv) the conditions of the Race.

(9) From time to time a Review Panel shall be established, comprising the:

(a) Chairman of the Graded Stakes Committee (being the Chairman who was the Chairman of the Graded Stakes Committee at the time the decision relating to the Graded Stakes List produced by the Graded Stakes Committee was made, notwithstanding that his term of office as Chairman of the Graded Stakes Committee may have expired at the time the decision is being reviewed);

(b) the President of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association or his nominee; and

(c) the Chairman of the Board of NZTR or his nominee;

(10) Subject to sub-Rule (12)(a), application may be made to the Review Panel for a review of the Graded Stakes Committee’s List by any one or more of the following bodies:

(a) NZTR;

(b) a Club;

(c) the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association;

(d) any branch of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association;

(e) the Bloodstock Agents’ Federation (NZ) Inc,

provided that request for a review is lodged in writing with NZTR within 28 days of the date of the first publication of the Graded Stakes Committee’s List.

(11) In considering any such application for review, the Review Panel shall have regard to the following:

(a) whether the Graded Stakes Committee has adequately carried out its functions as defined in sub-Rule (7);

(b) whether adequate notice has been given to the Club concerned in terms of sub-Rule (8)(a) prior to the downgrading or delisting of any particular Race or Races;

(c) whether the changes relied upon by the Graded Stakes Committee for downgrading or delisting a Race pursuant to Rule (8)(c) justify such actions;

(d) whether new information or changed circumstances have arisen since the Graded Stakes Committee made its determination in respect of any particular Race or Races.

(12) The Review Panel may:

(a) confirm the List produced by the Graded Stakes Committee, in which event the decision of the Review Panel shall be final; or

(b) set aside the List and prescribe the terms for referring it back to the Graded Stakes Committee for re-consideration.

(13) A Club shall only advertise a Race to be run at its Race Meeting in a particular Racing Year as being a Group Race or a Listed Race if that Race appears on the list published by NZTR in accordance with sub-Rule (7)(b) above for that Racing Year.



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