Tex.
Occ. Code Section 2021.004
Definitions Used in Administering Subtitle
(1)
“Authorized agent” means a person appointed by an owner of a horse to represent the owner. The term is limited to a person who is appointed by a written instrument that the commission acknowledges and approves.(2)
“Clerk of scales” means a racetrack official who is responsible for weighing a jockey before and after a race.(3)
“Handicapper” means a person who predicts the winner of a horse race.(4)
“Horseshoe inspector” means a racetrack official who inspects the shoes of the horses entered in a race.(5)
“Jockey” or “apprentice jockey” means a professional rider licensed by the commission to ride in horse races.(6)
“Jockey room custodian” means a person who maintains the premises of a room in which jockeys prepare for a race.(7)
“Official starter” means a racetrack official who is in charge of the start of a race.(8)
“Paddock judge” means a racetrack official who supervises animals entered in a race while the animals are assembled before the beginning of a race in an enclosure on the grounds of a racetrack.(9)
“Patrol judge” means a racetrack official who is stationed at a set point along the racetrack to monitor the running of a race.(10)
“Quarter horse racing” means the form of horse racing in which quarter horses mounted by jockeys engage in a race.(11)
“Stable foreman” means the person in charge of the building in which horses are lodged and fed.(12)
“Timer” means a racetrack official who times the running of a race.
Source:
Section 2021.004 — Definitions Used in Administering Subtitle, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.2021.htm#2021.004 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
