- (a) Each jockey agent must obtain a license from the Arkansas Racing Commission.
- (b) The stewards may permit an applicant to act pending decision on the jockey agent's application for license.
- (c) Each jockey agent may handle up to two (2) jockeys and one (1) apprentice, but no more.
- (d) No jockey agent shall make or assist in the making of an engagement for any rider other than for the riders the jockey agent is licensed to represent.
- (e) If, for good reason, a jockey agent is short of the jockey agent's permissible quota of jockeys and wishes to take on the task of making engagements for a rider not named in the jockey agent's license, the jockey agent must obtain permission from the stewards and the commission before making any such engagements.
- (f) If any jockey agent gives up the making of engagements for any rider, the jockey agent shall immediately notify the stewards, the commission, and the Racing Secretary, and the jockey agent shall turn over to the stewards a list of any unfilled engagements the jockey agent may have made for that rider.
(g)
- (1) Each jockey agent shall keep, on a form provided by the franchise holder, a record by races of all engagements made by the jockey agent or by others for the jockeys the jockey agent is handling.
- (2) This record shall include the day and the hour of making of each engagement, and the calls shall be numbered in the order of their priority whenever more than one (1) is given for any rider in any race.
- (3) This record must be kept up-to-date and held ready at all times for inspection by the stewards or the Racing Secretary.
- (h) All rival claims for the services of a rider will be adjudged by the stewards in the light of the records submitted by the jockey agents.
- (i) A jockey agent shall not give to anyone, directly or indirectly, any information or advice, or engage in the practice commonly known as "touting", for the purpose of influencing any person, or that would tend to do so, in the making of a wager on the result of any race.
- (j) Any jockey agent who falsifies his or her record shall be penalized by the revocation of the jockey agent's license, and any jockey agent so penalized shall be ineligible for another license for a term of twelve (12) months from the day of the revocation.
- (k) Jockey agents will be called upon to explain rival claims for any mount or for any rider, and inability to satisfy the stewards that the rival claim arose through honest bona fide error shall be considered a falsification of records.
- (l) Jockey agents shall not be allowed in the paddock at any time.
- (m) Under no circumstances shall jockey agents be permitted within the saddling enclosure during the period of racing hours, nor shall said jockey agents have access to the jockey quarters at any time, nor shall said jockey agents be allowed on the racetrack proper at the conclusion of any run.