Minnesota Administrative Rules

7890.0130 FINDINGS OF CHEMIST.

Subpart 1.

Prima facie evidence.

A post-race finding by a chemist of any positive test or overage in the test sample of a horse shall be considered prima facie evidence that the medication or metabolites, androgenic anabolic steroids, substance foreign to the natural horse, or endogenous, dietary, or environmental substances, NSAIDs or furosemide was administered to the horse prior to the race and carried in the body of the horse while participating in a race. A horse racing on furosemide must show a detectable concentration of the drug or metabolites in the post-race serum or plasma sample. A finding by a chemist of any venom or blood doping agent in the test sample of a horse shall be considered prima facie evidence that the venom or blood doping agent was administered to the horse prior to the race and carried in the body of the horse while participating in a race. A finding by a chemist of a level of TCO₂ greater than 37 millimoles per liter of blood in the test sample of a horse shall be considered prima facie evidence that an alkalinizing agent was administered to the horse prior to the race.

Subp. 2.

Distributed purse money.

The fact that purse money has been distributed prior to the issuance of the chemist's report shall not be deemed a finding that no medication or metabolites, androgenic anabolic steroids, substance foreign to the natural horse, or endogenous, dietary, or environmental substances, NSAIDs or furosemide exceeding allowable levels was administered to the horse earning such purse money in violation of this chapter.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 240.03; 240.13; 240.15; 240.19; 240.23; 240.24

History:

9 SR 2527; 10 SR 1908; 12 SR 2393; 16 SR 2207; 25 SR 1609; 28 SR 1482; 31 SR 1277; 33 SR 8; 40 SR 1393

Published Electronically:

April 25, 2016