Sec. 22-126. Entry of horse for purse; fraudulent concealment of record; penalty.
Sec. 22-126. Entry of horse for purse; fraudulent concealment of record; penalty. No person shall enter or cause to be entered for competition for any purse, prize,
premium, stake or sweepstakes, offered or given by any agricultural, trotting or other
society, association or person in this state, any horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly under
a false or assumed name, or out of its proper class, if such prize, purse, premium, stake
or sweepstakes is to depend upon and be decided by a contest of speed. The class to
which any such animal is deemed to belong, for the purpose of entry in any such contest
of speed, or the class to which any owner, keeper or driver of any such animal has the
right to nominate or enter it, shall be determined by some public performance of such
animal in a former contest or trial of speed, as provided by the written or printed rules of
the society or association under which the proposed contest is advertised to be conducted.
Any person who knowingly misrepresents or fraudulently conceals the public performance of a horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly in any former contest or trial of speed for
the purpose of securing an entry in any contest referred to in this section, or who violates
any other provision of this section, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars
or imprisoned not more than three years or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 3314.)