✨ Racing Regulations
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 144
30 SEPTEMBER 2009
THIRD APPENDIX
REGULATIONS FOR TRIALS
1
Any breach of these Regulations shall be deemed to be a breach of the New Zealand Rules of Racing and the penalty provisions of the Rules, shall, where applicable, apply to these Regulations.
2
DEFINITIONS
(a)
These Regulations shall apply to any duly authorised trials conducted by a Club.
(b)
Judicial Committee means a Judicial Committee appointed by the Judicial Control Authority whose powers and procedures to act pursuant to these Regulations shall be in accordance with Part IX of the New Zealand Rules of Racing.
3
CONTROL
Trials shall be under the jurisdiction of NZTR which may authorise a Club to conduct such trials. A Stipendiary Steward, or a person appointed by a Stipendiary Steward, shall be the Controller of the trials. The Controller may, in his discretion:
(a) relegate or disqualify horses for:
(i) interference; and/or
(ii) breaches of the conditions laid down for trials;
(b) refer any matter, including misconduct and wrongful entry or the supply of misleading information which results in a wrongful entry being made, to the Chief Executive who in turn may refer the matter to the Judicial Control Authority; and
(c) require any horse to be swabbed.
An Investigator shall have the same powers as the Controller has under Paragraphs (b) and (c) of these Regulations.
4
ENTRY
(a)
For horses without a registered name, full breeding, sex, age and colour must be advised prior to the official nomination deadline.
(b)
Horses can only be entered and started by persons holding a Trainer’s licence who have such horses under their direct charge or control. Any person who enters a horse and supplies false information in regard to that horse, or races in a trial a horse which is not the horse so entered or described may commit a Serious Racing Offence as described in the Rules.
(c)
No late entries permitted except with the permission of the Controller.
(d)
Any applicable entry fee is payable to, and will be collected by, NZTR after the trial meeting.
(e)
The following horses are ineligible for entry in Jumping Trials:
(i) unregistered horses;
(ii) two-year-olds;
(iii) three-year-olds, prior to the first day of February in the Racing Year in which any such horse becomes three years old; and
(iv) in any steeplechase, a horse that is less than four years old.
5
NUMBER OF STARTERS
The maximum number of starters in a Trial shall be the starting limit of the track and distance, or as determined by the Controller.
6
WEIGHTS
All trials will be run under catchweight conditions.
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