✨ Horse Racing Regulations
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144
30 SEPTEMBER 2009
RACE PROGRAMMES
507 NZRB, in consultation with NZTR, shall determine the number of Race Meetings (if any) each Club may hold in a particular Racing Year, and the dates on which any such Race Meetings shall be held by that Club.
508 A Club’s programme of Races for each Race Meeting shall:
(a) be approved by NZTR. NZTR shall appoint persons (including the regional representatives of the Clubs) to assist it with the consideration and approval of such programmes; and
(b) only contain Races of a type prescribed in accordance with the Racing Policy.
509 A Club or Official from a Club shall not alter a programme (or any conditions thereof) approved by NZTR in accordance with Rule 508(a), without the prior approval of NZTR.
510 The approved programme of every Race Meeting of a Club at which the Totalisator is to be used shall be advertised in full at least once in the Thoroughbred Racing Monthly and such advertisement shall state:
(a) the dates on which the Race Meeting is to begin and end;
(b) all of the Races programmed for that Race Meeting;
(c) the Club holding that Race Meeting;
(d) the relevant times and dates by which:
(i) entries;
(ii) declaration of weights;
(iii) declaration of withdrawals and/or acceptances, as applicable;
(iv) declaration of Riders; and
(v) scratchings,
must be received, and the place where and the person to whom such notifications or declarations must be sent or delivered; and
(e) any other details NZTR requires to be advertised for the programme of that Race Meeting.
511 A Club or Official thereof may only advertise or otherwise publish that Club’s programme after it is approved by NZTR in accordance with Rule 508(a).
512 NZRB shall determine the starting time of each Race at a Race Meeting. Such starting time may be amended by NZTR from time to time.
CLUB HOLDING RACE MEETING
513 Each Race Meeting shall be held by a Club in accordance with the programme approved by NZTR in accordance with Rule 508(a).
514 (1) A Club shall not permit any other Club or organisation to hold a Race Meeting on its Racecourse without the prior written consent of NZTR.
(2) Unless NZTR determines otherwise in its sole discretion, the application by a Club for the consent of NZTR shall be forwarded to NZTR with full details of the agreement proposed to be made between the Club and such other club or organisation.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-Rule (1) of this Rule it shall not be necessary for a Club to obtain NZTR’s consent if:
(a) both the club conducting the Race Meeting and the club on whose Racecourse the Race Meeting is to be held are galloping clubs;
(b) they are both in the same Region; and
(c) the club conducting the Race Meeting held its last Race Meeting in the previous year on the same Racecourse.
515 (1) Only a Club may conduct a Race Meeting, and Owners, lessees, Trainers and Riders may not enter, start or ride a horse in a race at a race meeting conducted by a club that is not a Club.
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Graded Stakes Committee Regulations
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