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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".59" citation="COMAR 09.10.02.59" title_num="09" subtitle_num="10" chapter_num="02" heading="Driver Challenge Event.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A driver challenge event is one in which the:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Racing association:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Designates the specific races on a racing program that will comprise the event; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Assigns a number to each of the drivers participating in these races;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Number of runners scheduled to participate in each race comprising the event is:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The same; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>No more than nine;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Same drivers are scheduled to drive in each race comprising the event; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Selection of the number assigned to a driver automatically selects the horses scheduled to be driven by that driver in each race comprising the driver challenge event.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A racing association conducting a driver challenge event may offer any type of bet on this series of races that is authorized by this chapter for a single race.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Points.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Points shall be awarded to each betting interest according to the finish of the horses in each race comprising the driver challenge event, as follows:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>14 points for a first place finisher;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>9 points for a second place finisher;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>7 points for a third place finisher; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>The points awarded for each subsequent finisher after the finisher under §C(1)(c) of this regulation shall decrease by one point from the points awarded to the preceding finisher, ending at one point for the ninth place finisher.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If there is a dead heat for any position in one or more of the races comprising this event, the points for the position dead-heated and the subsequent position or positions, as appropriate, shall be aggregated and then allocated proportionately for the horses involved in the dead heat.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>If a horse is scratched, declared a nonstarter in a race, or the race is called “No Contest”, the betting interests involved shall be awarded one point for that race.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>After the last race of the driver challenge event, the points earned by each betting interest shall be totaled and the betting interest with the:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Highest number of points shall be considered to have finished first;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Second highest number of points shall be considered to have finished second;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Third highest number of points shall be considered to have finished third; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>All subsequent places shall be awarded accordingly.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Any ties for the places determined under §C(4) of this regulation shall be broken by awarding the place for which the betting interests tied to the betting interest with the greatest number of:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>First place finishes;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Second place finishes, if a tie still exists after applying the provisions of §C(5)(a) of this regulation; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Finishers at the next lower finishing position, down to nine, if a tie still exists after applying the provisions of §C(5)(a) and (b) of this regulation.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>If, at the end of the process described under §C(5) of this regulation, the tie is not broken, the betting interests tied shall be considered to have finished in a dead heat.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>