Horse Racing Alberta Act

Section 1 | HORSE RACING ALBERTA ACT | RSA 2000 | Chapter H-11.3

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows:

Interpretation

1 (1) In this Act,

(a) “board” means the board of directors of the Corporation;

(b) “Corporation” means Horse Racing Alberta;

(c) “horse race” means a horse race in any of its forms;

(d) “licensed activity” includes the following:

(i) the operation of a race track;
(ii) the conduct of a horse race;
(iii) riding or driving a race horse in a horse race;
(iv) the operation of an off track wagering facility;
(v) the operation of a facility showing or otherwise operating simulcast horse racing;
(vi) the operation of a facility at which or through which wagers may be placed in respect of simulcast horse racing;
(vii) any activity specifically related to horse racing but not referred to in subclauses (i) to (vi) that is prescribed by the rules as a licensed activity;

(e) “Minister” means the Minister determined under section 16 of the Government Organization Act as the Minister responsible for this Act;

(f) “off track wagering facility” means any facility not located at a race track at which a wager on the outcome of a horse race may be placed;

(g) “pari mutuel wagering” means a form of wagering on the outcome of a horse race under which all wagers for each race are pooled and held for distribution of the total amount, less the deductions authorized by law, to holders of tickets on the winning horses;

(h) “race horse” means an equine of any breed that

(i) is owned or otherwise maintained by a racing participant for the purposes of running in a horse race,
(ii) is located at or on a race track or is otherwise used or maintained for the purposes of or in connection with horse racing, or
(iii) is designated by the Corporation as a race horse;

(i) “race track” includes

(i) any location or grounds at which a horse race takes place or customarily takes place, and
(ii) any buildings and facilities located on that location or those grounds;

(j) “racing officials” means stewards, harness racing judges and other race track officials and employees whose duties to the actual running of horse races and includes

(i) veterinarians and analysts who are engaged in the inspection of, or the testing of samples taken from, race horses, and
(ii) any other persons designated by the rules as racing officials, but does not include racing participants;

(k) “racing participants” means owners, trainers, drivers and jockeys of race horses and includes

(i) apprentice jockeys, grooms, jockeys’ agents, jockeys’ valets and exercise riders, and
(ii) any other persons designated by the rules as racing participants;

(l) “selection committee” means the selection committee referred to in section 2(3)(a);

(m) “simulcast” means the telecast or other transmission of audio and visual signals of a horse race that, for the purpose of allowing wagering to be conducted in Alberta on that horse race,

(i) is transmitted from the race track at which the horse race is being run, and
(ii) is received and shown at a location in Alberta, at the time that the horse race is being run;

(n) “wager” means a wager placed under the system known as pari mutuel wagering.

(2) Any reference in this Act to “this Act” includes a reference to the rules made under this Act.

(RSA 2000 cR-1 s1;2002 c22 s3;2023 c3 s10)