S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9234--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
November 7, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Racing and Wagering -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to eligibility requirements for horses participating in the
three racing levels of the New York Sire Stakes program
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 and subdivisions 2
and 3 of section 334 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding
law, the opening paragraph of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2 as amended
by chapter 39 of the laws of 2024, and subdivision 3 as amended by chap-
ter 170 of the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
The fund is further authorized and directed to conduct each year, at
the New York state exposition, with the approval of the director of the
exposition, or at any licensed pari-mutuel track in New York state, with
a preference given to any available licensed pari-mutuel track that is
five-eighths of a mile long or larger, colt, stake and overnight events
for standardbred horses to provide contests for two year old and three
year old colts and fillies at each gait of trotting and pacing. The
colt, stake and overnight events so conducted for two year old and three
year old colts and fillies at each gait of trotting and pacing hereunder
shall be conditioned to admit only those colts and fillies [dropped from
a mare bred in this state and] sired by a stallion owned or leased and
permanently standing for service at and within this state at the time of
the said foal's conception, provided, however, that such mare, stallion,
and foal shall be microchipped with such microchip information which the
commission may request be provided and made available pursuant to
section two hundred twenty-five of this chapter. Such colt, stake and
overnight events shall be opened for nomination not earlier than the
first day of January in the year the event is to be held and only colts
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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and fillies and horses complying with the following standards shall be
eligible for such nomination:
2. The fund is further authorized and directed in each year, in coop-
eration with each licensee harness track in this state, to provide for
the running of stake events conditioned to admit only two year old and
three year old colts and fillies sired by a stallion owned or leased and
permanently standing for service at and within this state at the time of
the said foal's conception, at each gait of trotting and pacing, to be
known as "New York sire stakes" and to contribute to the purses, stakes
or prizes to be awarded in such "New York sire stakes", such sums as the
fund shall deem advisable. [The fund may establish a system that distin-
guishes between (a) foals sired by a stallion standing in this state and
bred within this state, (b) foals sired by a stallion standing in this
state and with a mare bred outside this state, and (c) foals sired by a
stallion standing in this state and dropped from a mare who was bred,
and resided, in this state for at least one hundred eighty days in the
year of conception.] The fund shall provide bonus payments to those
foals [bred] CONCEIVED within the state [that meet other conditions] AND
OUT OF MARES THAT RESIDE IN THE STATE FOR A TIME PERIOD DEFINED AND
imposed by the fund. The fund may prescribe a starting fee for such "New
York-bred harness horse stakes" but in no event shall such fee be less
than two per centum of the estimated purse for each entry. The fee
prescribed shall be added to the purses awarded.
3. [Subsequent to the year two thousand fourteen a] A foal shall be
eligible for the "New [York sire stakes"] YORK-BRED HARNESS HORSE
EVENTS" if [conceived from a mare bred in the state and] sired by a
stallion owned by a resident of this state or leased to a resident of
this state for a period of no less than one year and standing for
service within the state at the time of the foal's conception.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.