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The Date System of preference will be used at Hollywood Park as described below:

• Horses will not be eligible to receive a date until their papers are on file in the Racing Secretary’s office.

• Preference dates will not supersede conditions of a race.
• All registration papers submitted to the Hollywood Park Racing Office prior to 4:00 p.m. on the 1st racing day will receive a zero date. A horse keeps its zero until he runs or scratches.
• All registration papers submitted after the 1st racing day will receive an R date of the day registered.
• Maidens that run in non-claiming maiden races and any winners race will not lose their previously held date.
• A zero date takes preference over a running date.
• Horses that will receive a running date corresponding to the date they race and lose the date previously held.
• Horses which are scratched will keep their R date for the day they scratch.
• Any horse running in a stakes race at Hollywood Park will retain previously held preference date.
• Preference dates are good at any distance and for any category, with the exception of Rule #2.
• All horses placed on the Stewards, Veterinarian or Starters lists will be posted on the bulletin board. They will not be permitted to enter until they have been approved to start. Horses placed on these lists will keep their dates if they ran in the particular race in which they made the list. Horses which are scratched will be given a date for the day the horse comes off the list.
• Horses which have established a date at the current meeting will lose that preference date should their papers be withdrawn from the Racing Office or demonstrate intent to race elsewhere. Should a horse’s papers be withdrawn from the Racing Office for just cause (i.e., tattoo, corrections, change of ownership, or clarification, etc.) the Racing Secretary may determine the status of the preference date established.
• In no way does the claiming, ownership transfer or trainer transfer on a horse affect the preference date.
• All registration papers turned in on a non-racing day and horses that come off a list on a non-racing day, the next racing day will be used as their preference date.
• Dates received in non-claiming maiden races and any winners race will not apply to any maiden claiming race. (This preference rule is designed so that a maiden claimer can run in a non-claiming race or any winners race and that race will not count against that horse regarding his preference date when that horse is entered back into a maiden claiming race.)
• Any horse that runs or is scratched from a race transferred from the turf to the dirt will retain its previous date.

  Any horse on the “also eligible list” that is declared will retain his original date providing there are no scratches in the body of the race.

  Horses on the also-eligible list are not “in today” horses. Such horses may enter for the succeeding day and receive any preference to which they may be entitled; however, if a horse gets in a succeeding race he will be scratched automatically from the race to which he was also eligible. Stakes races excluded. The status of such horses should be noted at the time of entry. Horses drawn into a race excepting sweepstakes, will be “in today” horses until that race has been run.