Texas Administrative Code

Texas Administrative Code

TITLE 16	ECONOMIC REGULATION
PART 8	TEXAS RACING COMMISSION
CHAPTER 313	OFFICIALS AND RULES OF HORSE RACING
SUBCHAPTER A	OFFICIALS
DIVISION 3	DUTIES OF OTHER OFFICIALS
RULE §313.49	Starter

(a) The starter shall issue orders and take measures necessary to ensure a fair start.

(b) The starter may appoint assistant starters. The starter shall ensure the assistant starters have adequate training in the safe handling of horses in the starting gate.

(c) The starter shall maintain a list of horses that are ineligible to start in a race because of poor or inconsistent performance or behavior at the starting gate that endangers the health or safety of other participants in racing. To be removed from the starter's list, a horse must be schooled in the starting gate and demonstrate to the satisfaction of the starter that the horse is capable of standing safely in the starting gate.

(d) The starter shall assign the stall positions to the assistant starters at random. The starter may not notify the assistant starters of their respective stall positions for a race more than 10 minutes before post time for the race. With the approval of the stewards, the starter may make exceptions to this subsection if necessary to ensure the safety of the race participants and the integrity of racing.

(e) The starter shall assess the ability of each individual, applying for an apprentice jockey's license for the first time, in breaking from the starting gate and working a horse in the company of other horses.

Source Note: The provisions of this §313.49 adopted to be effective August 30, 1989, 14 TexReg 4121; amended to be effective October 1, 1996, 21 TexReg 9062; amended to be effective October 30, 2000, 25 TexReg 10733; amended to be effective March 25, 2010, 35 TexReg 2311