- (1) (a) In claiming races, any horse is subject to be claimed for its entered price by any owner licensed by the commission, including a prospective owner who has been issued a claiming certificate, or by a licensed authorized agent for the account of such owner.
- (b) An owner or prospective owner is ineligible to claim when they are found by the commission to be in noncompliance with WAC 260-28-030.
- (2) In order to claim a horse as a prospective owner, a person will submit to the stewards a completed application for a prospective owner's license and the name of a licensed trainer who will assume the care and responsibility for any horse claimed. The stewards may issue a claiming certificate to the applicant upon satisfactory evidence that the applicant is eligible for an owner's license. Once the prospective owner has successfully claimed a horse and made payment of labor and industry fees due, he/she will be considered an owner. At that time the owner should contact a commission office for a new identification badge.
- (3) The names of licensed prospective owners who have been issued a claiming certificate must be prominently displayed in the offices of the commission and the racing secretary.
- (4) A claiming certificate will expire forty-five days from the date of issue, but may be extended with approval of the stewards; at the conclusion of the race meet at which it was issued, upon the claim of a horse, or upon issuance or denial of an owner's license, whichever comes first.
- (5) No owner or prospective owner may claim more than one horse in any one race.
- (6) An authorized agent may claim up to two horses, if each horse is claimed on behalf of entirely different ownerships, and the ownerships do not have a common interest in both claims. An authorized agent may not make a claim on the same horse for different owners.
- (7) No more than two claims may be entered with the same trainer listed in any one race.
- (8) No trainer may enter or start more than two horses for a claiming price in one race.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 67.16.020. WSR 20-03-089, § 260-60-300, filed 1/13/20, effective 2/13/20. Statutory Authority: RCW 67.16.020 and 67.16.040. WSR 08-05-088, § 260-60-300, filed 2/15/08, effective 3/17/08; WSR 05-07-063, § 260-60-300, filed 3/11/05, effective 4/11/05. Statutory Authority: RCW 67.16.020. WSR 04-24-019, § 260-60-300, filed 11/22/04, effective 12/23/04. Statutory Authority: RCW 67.16.040. WSR 96-12-008, § 260-60-300, filed 5/23/96, effective 6/23/96.]