Ohio Administrative Code

In the event of the late delivery, non-delivery, or miscarriage of any nomination or declaration not made personally, the stewards in their discretion may declare the nomination or declaration valid if satisfactory proof is presented within what the stewards consider to be a reas…

A nomination in a stakes is a subscription and cannot be withdrawn, but another horse may be substituted before the closing time. A person subscribing to a stakes before the time fixed for naming can transfer one or more of their subscriptions to any person or persons. Last updat…

h 119. PDF: A horse shall not become a starter for a stakes unless all moneys required under the conditions shall have been paid. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

h 119. PDF: Subscriptions are not returnable on the death of a horse or its failure to start, regardless of the cause of the failure. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

(A) When a horse is sold, its engagements pass to the new owner unless otherwise specified in the terms of the sale. When a horse is claimed out of a claiming or optional claiming race, its engagements pass to the claimant. In no case, however, shall the engagements pass with the…

No horse shall be considered scratched or declared out of an engagement until the owner, trainer, authorized agent, or some person deputized by one of them, shall have given due notice in writing to the racing secretary before the time stipulated by the regulations of the permit …

h 119. PDF: For stake races, if a horse is not named through the entry box at the published time of closing, the horse is automatically out. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

h 119. PDF: Scratches from the stake races will close forty-five minutes before the scheduled post time of the race. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

h 119. PDF: (A) Every horse entered and drawn for a race must be a starter unless it is scratched or ordered withdrawn, for reason, by the stewards and/or on the advice of the track veterinarian.(B) Approved reasons for scratches include, but are not limited to, lameness or sickn…

h 119. PDF: A scratch of a horse whose name appears in a printed program is irrevocable unless the stewards determine an error was made. The horse may be allowed to race for purse money but shall be barred from all wagering if wagering has already begun. Last updated November 19,…

(A) Except in handicaps, fillies two years old shall be allowed three pounds, and fillies and mares three years old and upward shall be allowed five pounds before September first, and three pounds thereafter in races where competing against horses of the opposite sex. (B) With th…

(A) The reports, records, and statistics as published by the daily racing form, equibase, the breed registry foal certificate, or other recognized publications shall be considered in determining eligibility, allowances, and penalties unless the published conditions of the meeting…

h 119. PDF: (A) Weight penalties are obligatory.(B) Weight allowances are optional, wholly or in part.(C) Weight allowance, including apprentice allowance, must be claimed at the time of the overnight entry and shall not be abandoned after posting of entries except by consent of …

h 119. PDF: Penalties and allowances of weight are not cumulative unless so declared by the conditions of the race. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

h 119. PDF: (A) A horse shall start with no greater allowance of weight than that to which it is entitled at the time of starting, regardless of its allowance at the time of entry.(B) Horses incurring weight penalties for a race shall not be entitled to any of the weight allowanc…

h 119. PDF: Omission to claim a weight allowance shall not be cause for disqualification. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

h 119. PDF: No horse shall incur a weight penalty or be barred from any race for having been beaten in any race. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

h 119. PDF: No horse shall receive allowance of weight for having been beaten in any race, but this rule shall not prohibit maiden allowances or allowances to horses which have not won within a specified period or a race of specified value. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:28 …

h 119. PDF: In the computation of weight penalties or allowances, any race conditioned to preclude claim of any of the starters shall not be considered a claiming race even if won by a horse liable to claim under said conditions. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM Authoriz…

h 119. PDF: No horse shall incur a weight penalty for a placement from which it is disqualified, but a horse placed through the disqualification of another shall incur weight penalties of that placement. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five…

h 119. PDF: Weight penalties or allowances incurred in a steeple chase or hurdle race shall not apply to flat races or vice versa. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date:

When the decision of a race is in dispute, all horses for which the winner's share is claimed shall carry the winner's weight penalties until the dispute is decided. Last updated December 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM Authorized By: 3769.03 Amplifies: 3769.03 Five Year Review Date: 12/22/2…

h 119. PDF: All horses involved in a dead heat for first place shall be liable to weight penalties for winning. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date:

h 119. PDF: Dead heats shall not be run off. Horses joined in a dead heat for any position for which a share of the purse is payable shall share equally in the money award for the placement. If the owners cannot agree which of them shall receive a cup or other indivisible prize, …

(A) A program of breeders' awards is established under section 3769.083 of the Revised Code. In order to register a horse and/or receive a breeders' award for a foal that was registered after December 31, 2008, the breeder must be licensed in accordance with paragraph (C) of rule…

If the commission finds an outstanding registration to be incorrect, such registration may be cancelled and notice thereof shall be sent to the owner and breeder of the horse. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM Authorized By: 3769.03 Amplifies: 3769.03 Five Year Review Dat…

Upon failure of a breeder or horseman to furnish the commission requested information relative to the registration of a horse, the commission may suspend or cancel such registration. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM Authorized By: 3769.03 Amplifies: 3769.03 Five Year Rev…

If the commission has reason to believe that an application for registration or transfer contains false or misleading information, the commission may summon the person who executed said application and any other person who has knowledge thereof. Failure to respond to such summons…

h 119. PDF: Any person filing an application for registration with incorrect or incomplete information may be charged ten dollars to defray costs for re-registration. Last updated November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Da…

(A) For a violation of any rule in this chapter and unless a rule specifically precludes the stewards from doing so, the stewards, upon the concurrence of two such officials, may fine a licensee an amount not in excess of the amount permitted by section 3769.091 of the Revised Co…

h 119. PDF: Winnings shall include all prizes up to the time appointed for the start and shall apply to all races in any country and shall embrace walking over or receiving forfeit but shall not include second money or lower or the value of any prize not paid in money. Last updat…

h 119. PDF: Winnings during the year shall include all winnings from January first preceding the start. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

h 119. PDF: "Winner of a certain sum" shall mean winner of a single race of that value unless otherwise expressed in the conditions. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

h 119. PDF: In estimating the net value of a race to the winner, all sums contributed by its owner or nominator shall be deducted from the amount it won. In estimating the value of a series of races in which an extra sum of money is won by winning two or more races, the extra sum…

h 119. PDF: On and after January 1, 1981, the winnings of a horse in a stake race shall be computed on the value of the gross earnings. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

In the event of a two horse dead heat, each horse's earnings shall be credited with equal purse as follows:(A) Dead heat for first share first and second money;(B) Dead heat for second share second and third money;(C) Dead heat for third share third and fourth money;(D) Dead heat…

(A) Any horse starting in a claiming race shall be subject to claim for its entered price.(B) All claims must be made in writing on forms and in envelopes furnished by the permit holder.(C) Both forms and envelopes must be filled out completely and must be sufficiently accurate t…

(A) Any Ohio licensed owner or any person holding an eligibility to claim license may make a claim for any horse subject to claim. Claims may be made by an authorized agent but only for the account of the person for whom they are agent.(B) An eligibility to claim license may be i…

h 119. PDF: The permit holder shall provide a locked box in which claims shall be deposited in a sealed envelope. The stewards and racing secretary shall have keys to the box. No money shall accompany the claim. The claim shall be deposited in the box no later than ten minutes be…

h 119. PDF: No official or other employee of a permit holder shall give any information as to the filing of claims until after the race has been run. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966

(A) Each horse shall run for the account of the person in whose name it starts, but title to the claimed horse shall be vested in the claimant from the time it becomes a starter as defined in rule 3769-1-01 of the Administrative Code. If more than one person shall enter claim for…

Any horse that has been claimed shall, after the race has been run, be taken to an area designated by the stewards. If a test is required the horse shall be taken to the test barn and shall remain in the care of the original trainer until released by the commission veterinarian w…

h 119. PDF: Any person who refuses to deliver a horse claimed out of a claiming race, shall be fined and/or suspended by the stewards and liable to the penalties set forth in rule 3769-6-99 of the Administrative Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM Authorized By: – Ampli…

h 119. PDF: No horse claimed out of a claiming race shall be sold or transferred to anyone within thirty days of the day it was claimed except in another claiming race nor shall such horse remain in the same stable or under the care or management of its former owner or trainer. L…

No thoroughbred horse claimed in Ohio may be raced in another state, except in a stake race, for a period of sixty days. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM Authorized By: 3769.03 Amplifies: 3769.03 Five Year Review Date: 7/3/2030 Prior Effective Dates: 3/15/1966, 1/1/1985, 5…

h 119. PDF: A claimed horse may be entered in subsequent claiming races for such claiming price as the claimant of said horse may determine. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM Authorized By: – Amplifies: – Five Year Review Date: Prior Effective Dates: 10/15/1976, 1/1/1985

h 119. PDF: No person can claim his own horse or cause his horse to be claimed directly or indirectly for his own account nor shall any person claim more than one horse from any one race. When a stable consists of horses owned by more than one person, trained by the same trainer,…