- (a) The Official Veterinarian shall maintain a list of all horses determined to be unfit to compete in a race due to illness, unsoundness, injury, infirmity, administration of a substance, or any other assessment or determination by the Official Veterinarian or Racing Veterinarian that the horse is unfit to compete in a race.
- (b) A horse placed on the Veterinarian's List due to illness, injury, or infirmity may be released from the list at the discretion of the Official Veterinarian.
(c) A horse placed on the Veterinarian's List for unsoundness or lameness may be released from the list after the following:
- (1) The horse demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Official Veterinarian or Racing Veterinarian that the horse is serviceably sound and in fit physical condition to exert its best effort in a race; and/or
- (2) The horse submits to a post work official sample collection for laboratory confirmation for compliance at the expense of the current owner. Samples shall be subjected to the same testing as conducted for post-race official samples. The presence of a prohibited substance in the post work sample, or the presence of a permitted substance in excess of commission post-race threshold levels or stacking rules, shall result in the horse remaining on the Veterinarian's List.
Amended at 38 Ok Reg 2078, eff 9-11-21