11.01.01 A horse shall not be permitted to enter or start unless:
11.01.02 A horse shall not be eligible to be declared in to race at any raceway unless:
11.02.01 If a horse meets the conditions of Rule 11.01.01 and 11.01.02 it will be considered qualified and eligible to be declared to added money event races provided that one of its last three charted lines is a clean line in a purse, qualifying or schooling race, not more than sixty (60) clear days before the closing of declarations and its individual time in that clean charted line meets the following standards for age and the size of the track where it raced or qualified after the Judges have given appropriate allowances for track conditions
½ MILE TRACKS |
5/8 MILE TRACKS |
7/8 MILE + TRACKS |
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TWO YEAR OLDS: | |||
Pacers | 2:03 | 2:01 | 2:00 |
Trotters | 2:09 | 2:06 | 2:05 |
THREE YEAR OLDS: | |||
Pacers | 2:00 | 1:58 | 1:57 |
Trotters | 2:05 | 2:02 | 2:01 |
Where an added money event is to be conducted for three year olds during the period December 1 through April 30, the qualifying times in effect at the track will apply.
FOUR YEAR OLDS AND UP:
Qualifying times in effect at a track where an added money event is conducted shall apply to the following:
11.02.02 Notwithstanding the provisions of 11.02.01 no horse shall be considered qualified and eligible to be declared to added money event races if that horse, since having obtained the clean charted line referred to in 11.02.01, is required to qualify in accordance with the Rules, including Chapter 12 where applicable, or is on the Judges List or is otherwise ineligible to race.
11.03 Notwithstanding Rules 11.01.01, 11.01.02 and 11.02.01, if a horse participates in a race or event after having been declared into a subsequent race or event it shall be ruled ineligible to the subsequent race or event and scratched if its performance in the initial race or event makes it ineligible under the Rules. If the race or event from which the horse is scratched is an added money event, any starting fee paid or payable shall be forfeited.
11.04 Any participant who declares, or causes to be declared, an ineligible horse to start shall be in violation of the Rules and subject to disciplinary action by the Judges. If after declarations close, and prior to the race, the Judges become aware that an ineligible horse has been declared, they shall immediately scratch the horse and starting fees, if applicable, shall be forfeited.
11.05 If the ownership of a horse changes, such horse may start under the new ownership not more than once without reasonable evidence being given to the Judges that the registration certificate has been forwarded to Standardbred Canada or the United States Trotting Association.
11.06 Any participant skipping or omitting transfers of ownership of any horse shall be in violation of the Rules.
11.07
11.08 Horses not under lease must race in the name of the bona fide owner.
11.09 For the purposes of eligibility to race at extended meetings, past performance lines charted at non-extended meetings in Ontario shall not be considered other than for the purpose of crediting the horses with the number of starts, wins and purse money earned at non-extended meetings.
11.10.01 Deleted.
11.10.02 Deleted.
11.10.03 Deleted.