A09234 Summary:
| BILL NO | A09234A |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Woerner |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §334, RWB L | |
| Expands eligibility requirements for horses participating in the three racing levels of the New York Sire Stakes program. | |
A09234 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9234--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY November 7, 2025 ___________ 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: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 and subdivisions 2 2 and 3 of section 334 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding 3 law, the opening paragraph of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2 as amended 4 by chapter 39 of the laws of 2024, and subdivision 3 as amended by chap- 5 ter 170 of the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows: 6 The fund is further authorized and directed to conduct each year, at 7 the New York state exposition, with the approval of the director of the 8 exposition, or at any licensed pari-mutuel track in New York state, with 9 a preference given to any available licensed pari-mutuel track that is 10 five-eighths of a mile long or larger, colt, stake and overnight events 11 for standardbred horses to provide contests for two year old and three 12 year old colts and fillies at each gait of trotting and pacing. The 13 colt, stake and overnight events so conducted for two year old and three 14 year old colts and fillies at each gait of trotting and pacing hereunder 15 shall be conditioned to admit only those colts and fillies [dropped from16a mare bred in this state and] sired by a stallion owned or leased and 17 permanently standing for service at and within this state at the time of 18 the said foal's conception, provided, however, that such mare, stallion, 19 and foal shall be microchipped with such microchip information which the 20 commission may request be provided and made available pursuant to 21 section two hundred twenty-five of this chapter. Such colt, stake and 22 overnight events shall be opened for nomination not earlier than the 23 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. LBD14012-02-5A. 9234--A 2 1 and fillies and horses complying with the following standards shall be 2 eligible for such nomination: 3 2. The fund is further authorized and directed in each year, in coop- 4 eration with each licensee harness track in this state, to provide for 5 the running of stake events conditioned to admit only two year old and 6 three year old colts and fillies sired by a stallion owned or leased and 7 permanently standing for service at and within this state at the time of 8 the said foal's conception, at each gait of trotting and pacing, to be 9 known as "New York sire stakes" and to contribute to the purses, stakes 10 or prizes to be awarded in such "New York sire stakes", such sums as the 11 fund shall deem advisable. [The fund may establish a system that distin-12guishes between (a) foals sired by a stallion standing in this state and13bred within this state, (b) foals sired by a stallion standing in this14state and with a mare bred outside this state, and (c) foals sired by a15stallion standing in this state and dropped from a mare who was bred,16and resided, in this state for at least one hundred eighty days in the17year of conception.] The fund shall provide bonus payments to those 18 foals [bred] conceived within the state [that meet other conditions] and 19 out of mares that reside in the state for a time period defined and 20 imposed by the fund. The fund may prescribe a starting fee for such "New 21 York-bred harness horse stakes" but in no event shall such fee be less 22 than two per centum of the estimated purse for each entry. The fee 23 prescribed shall be added to the purses awarded. 24 3. [Subsequent to the year two thousand fourteen a] A foal shall be 25 eligible for the "New [York sire stakes"] York-bred harness horse 26 events" if [conceived from a mare bred in the state and] sired by a 27 stallion owned by a resident of this state or leased to a resident of 28 this state for a period of no less than one year and standing for 29 service within the state at the time of the foal's conception. 30 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.