Assembly Bill A9234

                             
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                                   9234
 
                        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
 
 AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
   relation  to  eligibility requirements for horses participating in 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 pari-mutuel wagering and breeding  law,  the
 opening paragraph of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2 as amended by chap-
 ter  39 of the laws of 2024, and subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 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  within  the state that meet other conditions 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" 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.