- (a) Weight penalties are obligatory.
(b)
- (1) Weight allowance is obligatory except by permission of a steward.
- (2) Such permission must be obtained at time of entry.
- (c) Weight allowance, including apprentice allowance, must be claimed at time of entry or prior to the drawing of the races.
- (d) Said weight allowance shall not be abandoned after the posting of entries except by consent of the stewards.
- (e) Penalties and allowances of weight are not cumulative, unless so declared by the conditions of a race.
- (f) A horse shall start with only the allowance of weight entitled at the time of starting, regardless of the claimed allowance at the time of entry.
- (g) Horses incurring weight penalties for a race shall not be entitled to any of the weight allowances for that race.
- (h) Horses not entitled to the first weight allowance in a race shall not be entitled to the second and so on.
- (i) Omission to claim a weight allowance is not cause of disqualification.
- (j) Claim of weight allowance to which a horse is not entitled shall not disqualify unless protest is made in writing and lodged with the stewards at least sixty (60) minutes before post time of the race in question.
- (k) No horse shall incur a weight penalty or be barred from any race for having been placed second or lower in any race.
- (l) No horse shall be given a weight allowance for failure to finish second or in any lower place in any race.
- (m) Penalties shall not be invoked nor allowances made in arriving at the weights to be carried in matches or in private sweepstakes.
- (n) No horse shall receive allowance of weight or be relieved of extra weight for having been beaten in one (1) or more races, provided this subsection shall not prohibit maiden allowances or allowances to horses which have not won within a specified period or which have not won a race of specified value.
- (o) When the decision of a race is in dispute, all horses involved in the dispute with respect to the winner's credit shall be liable to all weight penalties attached to the winnings of that race until a winner has been adjudged.
- (p) Reports, records, and statistics as published by The Daily Racing Form, Equibase, or other publications recognized as official by the stewards shall be considered official in determining eligibility, allowances, and penalties, but may be corrected.
(q)
- (1) No horse shall incur a weight penalty for a placement from which he or she is disqualified, but a horse placed through the disqualification of another horse shall incur the weight penalties of that placement.
- (2) No such placement, however, shall make a horse ineligible to a race that already has been run.
- (r) A horse involved in a dead heat for the first place shall be liable to weight penalty for the amount received.