ALL NOMINATION AND SUSTAINING PAYMENTS:

 

ONLINE PAYMENTS:

Visit www.HeritagePlace.com to make your sustaining payment online.

*All Nomination & Sustaining Payments made online MUST be made by Due Date*

ALL INQUIRIES:

 Heritage Place Race Nominations Secretary

Phone: (405) 682-4551 | Email: Amber

2026 HERITAGE PLACE FUTURITY, DERBY AND OAKS RACE CONDITIONS:

The nominator, owner, and owner’s agents and representative understand that Heritage Place, Remington Park or the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission (OHRC) may implement safety or animal welfare protocols or controls over pre-race activities, testing, surveillance, and on-grounds activities (“Protocols”) and agree to be bound by such Protocols. If Heritage Place deems it necessary for additional assistance in maintaining the integrity of this race all expenses for such assistance may be deducted from the gross purse.

Any prohibited medication positives will result in loss of eligibility to participate in trials or finals as determined by the OHRC or OHRC Stewards. If pre-race examination or substance testing prior to or following a race is refused by owner or trainer of eligible horse and results in the horse being ineligible to participate, there will be no refund of payments. Eligible participants will be required to comply with all hair testing requirements included in these conditions.

1. ELIGIBLE HORSES: Quarter Horses, born in 2023 for Derby & Oaks or 2024 for Futurity, who are registered with American Quarter Horse Association, and which are owned or nominated by owners who agree to the conditions of this race(s) as follows, are eligible to enter the race. An owner may nominate as many horses as desired. If one or more nominations are withdrawn prior to the running of the trials, it is the owner’s responsibility to specify which horses are being withdrawn and which horses are to remain eligible when making payments. A copy of the registration certificate must be provided by the owner/nominator at time of nomination for the Derby and Oaks and no later than March 15 for the Futurity.

2. PAYMENTS: Except as provided herein, the failure to make all payments on or before the designated dates will result in a termination of the nomination and all prior nominating and sustaining payments will be forfeited. All payments must be postmarked no later than the due date and should be sent by registered or certified mail. The sender’s receipt must be date stamped by the United States Postal Service and presented as proof of mailing if date discrepancies occur. Postage metered dates will not be accepted if payments are not received by the due date. United States Postal Service date stamped metered mail will constitute evidence of mailing if dated, mailed, and stamped on or before due date. Any payments received more than ten days after the due date will not be accepted. Returned checks constitute no payment. All payments are non-refundable. Credit card payments will be subject to a 3.5% convenience fee. 

3. LATE NOMINATIONS: Late nominations will be accepted through February 15, 2026. See Late Nomination deadlines and amounts on the respective Race flyer.

4. SUPPLEMENTARY NOMINATIONS: Supplementary nominations for eligible horses will be permitted prior to trial entry on payment of $25,000 by cashier’s check or other immediately available funds.

5. SUBSTANCE TESTING: As a condition for participation in this race, all horses nominated to the Heritage Place administered Futurity, Derby or Oaks (the “Races) will be subject to substance testing by the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission. Every entry for the trials associated with the Races must have a negative hair test for prohibited substances in accordance with the same pre-entry hair test requirements implemented by Remington Park. Additionally, the top 30 qualifiers for the Futurity and top 15 qualifiers for the Derby & Oaks, based on trial times, will be required to provide a negative hair test for prohibited substances, after the trials and before entry date for the final for such Races, in accordance with the same pre-entry hair test requirements implemented by Remington Park. A positive report for any prohibited substance or failure to present a horse(s) for testing at the published date and time will result in loss of eligibility to participate in trials or final of such Races. If a horse is declared ineligible for any reason, before entries close for the final or juvenile, the next fastest horse from the same day of trials as the ineligible horse will be moved up. If a qualifier to the Futurity, Derby or Oaks final dies or becomes injured and otherwise eligible to enter the final, that horse will receive last place money (this does not apply to a juvenile). Test results will be reported to the host track officials and notification of positives will be sent to the trainer of the nominated horse. 

By submitting a signed nomination form for this race, by or on behalf of the owner of the nominated horse, the owner’s agents and representatives, and the owner’s heirs and assigns (including any future owner of the nominated horse) agrees to be subject to and abide by the results of the initial (commonly referred to as the “sample A test”) hair testing of the nominated horse and voluntarily and irrevocably waives the following:

1. Any and all rights to have a secondary or split sample tested,
2. Any and all rights to a hearing (whether formal, informal, by written submission or in-person) to contest the results of the initial test or the resulting denial of entry in the race, whether a trial race or final race,
3. Any and all rights to contest, under any circumstances or grounds, the results of the initial test or the resulting denial of entry in the race, whether a trial race or final race,
4. Any and all rights to challenge the results of the initial test or resulting denial of entry in the race, whether a trial race or final race, directly or indirectly, before any court or other tribunal; and
5. By their entry into the race, all participants irrevocably waive any legal claim they might have against Heritage Place and/or OQHRA and Remington Park, its officers, executive committee members, or its employees arising from or related to the hair testing which is the subject of this paragraph.
6. A report of the result of an unofficial test submitted as a requirement of eligibility for entry is not admissible for any purpose in any OHRC proceeding arising from a positive report of an official test administered by OHRC.

6. ENTRY: Entries in all races must be made through the entry box at Remington Park Racing Office by the closing time for entries in that race. Nominations to the race do not guarantee the availability of stalls at Remington Park Race track for nominated horses. 

7. TIME TRIALS: Remington Park and Heritage Place will determine if there are enough entries to conduct one or two days of trials based on possible number of entries for the trials. Horses shall qualify based on time and order of finish. If two days are required, the trials will be split by a “draw” and run on two separate days. Qualifiers will be determined by taking the 5 fastest times on each day of the trials for the finals. If the trials are all run in one day, then the 10 fastest times will be used to select the qualifiers for the final. Times will be determined only to the limit of the timer, the only exception is when two or more horses have the same exact time in the same trial heat. Then the order of finish shall also determine the preference in qualifying for the final. Except in the case of a disqualification, under no circumstances shall a horse qualify ahead of a horse that finished ahead of that horse in the official order of finish. Should a horse be disqualified for interference during the running of a time trial, it shall receive the time of the horse it is immediately placed behind plus one hundredth (1/100) of a second, or to the maximum accuracy of the electronic timing device. No adjustments shall be made in the times recorded in the time trials to account for head wind, tail wind, off-track, etc. In the event of a timer malfunction of a trial race, the stewards will use the technological aide of video frame by frame analysis to assign times to each participating horse in that trial. Every qualifier eligible to enter the final will be required to remain on the grounds and stabled in the barn area of the racetrack after the trials and until the running of the final.

a. TIES IN TIME TRIALS: If only one day of trials is conducted and a tie for the 10th fastest time occurs, qualifiers will be determined by lot as provided by the Racing Commission Rules of Racing (Pari-Mutuel). If two days of trials are conducted the five fastest qualifiers from each day will advance to the final. If a tie occurs for the 5th fastest time at the end of trials for that day, the final position will be determined by lot between all horses with that time. If a horse is withdrawn, scratched, or deemed ineligible for any reason after the time trials and before entry for the final (or juvenile, if applicable) only a horse that ran in the time trials on the same day is eligible to move into that specific horse’s position. A horse from the other day of time trials (if there were two days) is not eligible to move into that position. The final and each trial will consist of a field of no more than ten horses.

2026 HERITAGE PLACE FUTURITY, DERBY AND OAKS RACE CONDITIONS: (cont.)

8. FINAL: The final will consist of a field of no more than ten (10) horses unless otherwise determined within these conditions. In addition to the pre-entry hair testing, only the fastest 30 qualifiers for the 2026 Futurity and 15 qualifiers for the Derby and Oaks based on trial times will be eligible and required to comply with collection of another hair sample which will be collected and tested after the trials and prior to entry for the final. This sample will be collected at a time and location approved by the race administrator in conjunction with the OQHRA who facilitates the collection of hair samples. Any horse failing to produce a clean hair test free of prohibited substances will not be eligible to enter the final or the Juvenile regardless of the qualifying time. Horses running in trials with 11-30th fastest times (or 6-15 each day) to the Futurity final will be eligible for entry in the Juvenile with preference for fastest non-qualifying times. None of the 11-30 fastest horses failing to provide a clean hair test from the post-trial testing will be eligible to enter the Juvenile. No purse money will be paid to Juvenile entries that are scratched for any reason prior to running of the Juvenile. Any remaining purse money with respect to such withdrawn horses will be distributed proportionately to those horses running in the Juvenile in accordance with purse distribution percentages. If a horse is withdrawn, scratched, or deemed ineligible for any reason after the time trials and before the final only a horse that ran in the time trials on the same day is eligible to move into that horse’s position. A horse from the other day of time trials is not eligible to move into a position earned during the other day of time trials.

9. SCRATCHES: If a horse is ruled ineligible by the stewards or the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission for entry into either the trials or the final or if the stewards scratch or disqualify a horse from either a trial or the final described herein for a rule violation, such horse may be ineligible for receipt of any purse money. After the entry date for the final, the purse money that might have been due to such horse will be divided proportionately (based on purse percentages) among the other starters in such race. If, after the entry date for such race, one or more horses are withdrawn from the final for any reason other than ineligibility or a rule violation, the purse monies (in inverse order of finish) equal to the number of withdrawn horses for such race will be distributed equally to the owners of the horses withdrawn from such final. If prior to the entry date for the final a horse is ruled ineligible for the final as provided above, the next eligible horse may be entered in such race.

10. HERITAGE PLACE JUVENILE: For two-year olds that participated in the Heritage Place Futurity time trials that did not qualify to the futurity final and based on fastest qualifying times. Scratched horses in the finals of the Heritage Place Juvenile will not receive money. Any remaining purse money with respect to such withdrawn horses will be distributed proportionately to those horses running in the Juvenile in accordance with purse distribution percentages. All Juvenile qualifiers will be subject to the same substance testing rules listed in item 5.

11. RACE DATES: Heritage Place reserves the right to reschedule, postpone, move or cancel the trials, the final, of any the Races for any reason which it deems sufficient. If the races are canceled, all nominating and sustaining payments previously paid, less the amounts deducted for advertising and administrative expenses, will be refunded.

12. RACE CONDITIONS: Heritage Place Inc. reserves the right to amend these terms of participation and competition at its discretion and at any time within the parameters of the rules and regulations of the OHRC.

13. ADDRESS OR OWNERSHIP CHANGE: The owner of a horse nominated to the race is responsible for notifying race administrator of the sale of a horse nominated to the race or of a change in the owner’s address.

14. ADMINISTRATOR: The race is administered and sponsored by Heritage Place, Inc. All disputes as to the eligibility to participate in the trials for this race will be determined at the sole discretion of Heritage Place, Inc. and the decision of Heritage Place, Inc. will be absolute, final, and binding. Any nomination may be refused without liability by Heritage Place, Inc. for any reason at any time prior to the actual running thereof.

15. RACE RULES: The race date and the race conditions are subject to approval by Heritage Place, Inc, Remington Park, and the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission. The decision of the stewards or the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission in all matters under their authority will be final. Nominations are accepted only on the condition that those persons nominating or starting a horse in the trials and the final agree to abide by these race conditions, the rules and regulations promulgated by Remington Park, the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission Rules of Racing (Pari-mutuel), and all other rules, regulations and conditions promulgated by the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission or any other applicable governmental authority or the race administrator.

The undersigned has read this document and represents and warrants that (1) he/she is the owner of all interests in the nominated horse or has full authority on behalf of the owner or owners of the nominated horse to execute this nomination and bind all persons with a legal interest in the nominated horse to the conditions, requirements, restrictions and waivers set forth on this nomination form and race conditions and 2) these conditions shall be binding on any future owner of any interest in the nominated horse.

I HAVE READ AND APPROVE THE FOREGOING RACE CONDITIONS AND NOMINATE AS INDICATED BELOW

* Please complete and sign this form along with your payment and uploaded copy of the AQHA registration certificate.*

If you have any questions regarding any part of this nomination form, please contact the Nominations Secretary, or the General Manager.

ALL TRIALS. Races may be run on one day if approved by OHRC.