Section 19408.3.  


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  • "Stakes race" means a race for which owners of horses entered or engaged for the race contribute to a purse for which money or any other prize may be added, nominations to which close 72 hours or more before starting; or an invitational race or invitational handicap race for which owners do not conribute to the purse, but which is advertised in the regular stakes program.

(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1043, Sec. 3.2.)