view raw text
I TS of . l. s 1 1 I J 1 I 1 I t 1 1 1 1 ! 1 j 1 . . : i I I j j j I j : j NEW ILLINOIS WEIGHT ROLE Minimum Weight of 103 Pounds in Effect This Season. Commission Also Adopts New Rule Governing Purses in Substitute Races New Apprentice Rule. The Illinois Racing Commission has adopted new rules regulating the assignment weights in overnight, condition, allowance and handicap races. The commission has followed the regulations adopted by the National Association of State Racing Commissions and has made 103 pounds minimum weight in all races. Another rule revised deals with apprentices and the duration of time in which they may claim the five-pound allowance. Rule 267 A deals with substitute races and prevents the tracks from substituting a lower purse than that which the original contest called for. The tracks can offer a 5600 purse for a substitute affair, but if the original purse in the condition books called for 00, the 00 difference must be added to the following day or the second days general purse and stake disbursement. Other changes involve the rules governing the registration of horses, posting of approximate odds on the "tote" boards "and other regulations involving the operation of the mutuel rooms. Following are the more pertinent rules pertaining to weights carried, apprenticeship and substitute races: The Following Rules Were Adopted by the ILLINOIS RACING COMMISSION March 8, 1938. WEIGHT RULE. Rule 149 A 1. In all overnight claiming and condition races not more than six pounds may be deducted from the scaled of weight for age, based on The Jockey Club of New York scale of weights, except for allowances but in no case shall the total allowances of any type reduces the lowest weight below 103 pounds. 2. In all handicaps which close more than seventy-two hours prior to the race, top weight shall not be less than the scale weight. 3. In all overnight handicaps the top weight shall not be less than .122 pounds. APPRENTICE RULE. Rule 149 B All -apprentice applicants who have of their own free will and, if under age, with the consent of their parents or guardians, bound themselves to an owner or trainer for a term of not less than three years, by a written instrument, copy of which has been filed with the state racing commission in jurisdiction, and after show-! ing proof of at least one year of service with a racing stable, are permitted during their apprenticeship to claim an allowance of five pounds in all overnight races except handicaps for one year from the date of riding their first winner or thereafter until they have ridden a. total of forty winners. No jockey license . shall be granted to anyone less than 16 years of age. Note By action of the commission, rules 143, 144 and 148, adopted in 1934, are hereby revoked. Rule 267 A - Where a substitution of a race is made, carrying a smaller purse tha.n the purse of the race cancelled, as listed in the condition book issued by the association, the amount of reduction in the substituted purse, if any, shall be added to the total amount of the purse distribution made on the second racing day thereafter.
