PURPOSE: This rule sets forth the duties, responsibilities and powers of the commission’s veterinarian.

1. (1) General Duties. The commission shall employ a veterinarian(s) authorized to—

   1. (A) Maintain and operate a barn for the detention and testing of horses after each race;
   2. (B) Collect specimens for analysis to determine the presence of foreign substances in any entered horse; and
   3. (C) Examine any horse entered in any race and may upon a determination of unfitness to race, recommend to the judges that they scratch the horse. Any horse so scratched shall be placed on the veterinarian’s list and shall not be entered to race, nor shall it race, for three (3) racing days thereafter.
2. (2) Racing Soundness Exam. Each and every horse entered to race shall be subjected, not later than two (2) hours prior to the official post-time for the first race, to a veterinary examination for racing soundness and health on the race day.

3. (3) Sampling and Testing.

   1. (A) Winner Tested. After each race the winner and second place horse of each race and any other horse designated by the judges shall be taken directly to the enclosure for testing as the judges may require. Blood samples shall be taken only by the commission’s veterinarian or his/her designated assistant. 12 CSR 50-20

      1. 1. A horse entered in a race may be des-

ignated by the presiding judges for blood or urine specimen, or both, to be given before or following the race. The winner and second place horse of every race shall give a postrace blood or urine specimen. In trifecta races the first three (3) horses shall be tested.

1. 2. Failure to allow or cooperate in the

taking of a specimen, or any act or threat to impede or prevent or otherwise interfere with the testing, shall subject the licensee to disciplinary proceedings as provided in these rules.

1. (B) Representative Present. Each horse to be tested shall be accompanied by its owner, trainer or their representative who shall remain during the obtaining of the sample and sign as a witness a portion of the sample marking tag which should be detached and safeguarded by the commission’s veterinarian before the sample is forwarded to the laboratory.
2. (C) Custody of Samples. Samples taken shall be marked for identification by a tag initialed by the commission’s veterinarian. The tag shall include a number, the date of sample, but not the name of the horse or its owner or trainers. The sample and tag shall be delivered under seal to the testing laboratory by the commission’s veterinarian.
3. (D) Commission Laboratory. The commission laboratory shall insure the integrity of samples and sample containers and shall conduct tests as may be required by the judges or the commission.
4. (E) Sample Retention. The commission laboratory shall retain the sample submitted to it by the veterinarian in a manner most conducive to its preservation. The laboratory shall not destroy any sample without first obtaining the permission of the commission or the executive director.
5. (F) Post-mortem Examination. Every horse which expires on the racetrack, in training, or in competition, and is destroyed and every other horse which expires while stabled on the racetrack under the jurisdiction of the commission, shall undergo a postmortem examination at a time and place acceptable to the commission’s veterinarian to determine the injury or sickness which resulted in euthanasia or natural death. The post-mortem examination required shall be conducted by a veterinarian employed by the owner or his/her trainer or the association’s veterinarian in the presence of and in consultation with the commission’s veterinarian. Test samples must be obtained from the carcass upon which the post-mortem examination is conducted and shall be sent to the commission’s laboratory. AUTHORITY: section 313.520.3., RSMo 1986.* Emergency rule filed June 20, 1986, effective June 30, 1986, expired Oct. 13, 1986. Original rule filed Oct. 3, 1986, effective Jan. 12, 1987. Amended: Filed Oct. 13, 1987, effective Jan. 14, 1988.

*Original authority: 313.520, RSMo 1986, amended 1995.