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1 1 1 2 3 virginia racing commission 4 January 17, 2012 5 10700 Horsemen's Road 6 New Kent, VA 23124 7 Commencing at 9:45 8 9 10 11 COMMISSION MEMBERS: 12 Stuart Siegel, Chairman J. Sargeant Reynolds, Jr., Vice Chairman 13 David C. Reynolds Carol R. Dawson 14 15 COMMISSION STAFF: 16 Bernard J. Hettel, Executive Secretary David S. Lermond, Jr., Deputy Executive Secretary 17 Kimberly M. Carter, Office Administrator C. Richard Harden, DVM, Equine Medical Director 18 Joseph M.

2 Roney, Director of Security & Operations 19 20 ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE 21 Amy K. Dilworth, Esquire 22 23 24 CAPITOL REPORTING, INC. REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL REPORTERS 25(804) 788-4917 2 1 Page 2 1. Election of Chairman for 2012 3 3 2. Election of Vice Chairman for 2012 4 4 3. Approval of the minutes of the regular 4 meeting of December 1, 2011 5 6 4. Commissioners' Comments 5 7 5. Committee Reports 8 a. Breeders Fund Thoroughbred Subcommittee 6 9 6.

3 Executive Secretary's Report 10 a. To Amend Regulations Pertaining to the 7 Requirement of a Human Ambulance During the 11 Exercising of Standardbred Horses b. To Amend Regulations Pertaining to Patrol 9 12 Judges 13 7. Stakeholders 14 a. Request from Colonial Downs for 2012 10 Standardbred Race Days 15 i. Presentation from Colonial Downs 11 ii. Response from VHHA 17 16 iii. Response from General Public 21 b.

4 Request by VTA for Amendments to Chapter 22 17 130 - Glenn Petty 18 8. Public Participation 51 19 9. Set Next Meeting -- TBD 51 20 10. Closed Meeting -- 21 11. Adjournment 54 22 23 24 25 CAPITOL REPORTING, INC.(804) 788-4917 3 1 MR. HETTEL: Folks, I'd like to begin the 2 meeting by introducing our newest commissioner, 3 Carol Dawson. Carol, welcome to the RACING 4 COMMISSION . If you care, tell us you're happy to be 5 here.

5 6 MS. DAWSON: I am. I'm very happy to be here 7 and glad to see so much interest and I'm really 8 thrilled and looking forward to service on the 9 MR. HETTEL: It is our pleasure to have The next item is the election of a May I seek a nomination for chairman of the Virginia13 RACING COMMISSION ?14 MR. S. REYNOLDS: Yes, sir. I'd like to15 nominate Stuart Siegel to be chairman of the16 VIRGINIA RACING MR. HETTEL: Thank you, sir. Do I have a18 second?

6 19 MR. D. REYNOLDS: MS. DAWSON: MR. HETTEL: We have a motion and a second. Do22 we have a vote? 23 NOTE: The COMMISSION votes aye. 24 MR. HETTEL: Sounds like unanimous Mr. Siegel is our new REPORTING, INC.(804) 788-4917 4 1 MR. SIEGEL: Do we have debates or anything? 2 MR. HETTEL: No. You're stuck with it. Good 3 luck to you. 4 Secondarily, let's go ahead and elect a vice 5 chairman. 6 MR.

7 SIEGEL: I would nominate Sarge Reynolds. 7 MR. HETTEL: Do I hear a second? 8 MR. D. REYNOLDS: Second. 9 MR. HETTEL: Can we have a vote?10 NOTE: The COMMISSION votes MR. S. REYNOLDS: I nominate MR. HETTEL: Another unanimous vote. 13 All right. Mr. Chairman, I'll turn the meeting14 over to MR. SIEGEL: I have no acceptance speech,16 certainly nothing prepared, by I'm happy to serve17 and I'd also like to welcome Carol to the Commission18 and look forward to serving with you as The first item on the agenda is the minutes20 from our -- the approval of the minutes from our21 December 1st meeting, which has been Any comments with regard to those minutes?

8 23 MR. WEINBERG: Just a suggestion. You may want24 to reflect that the COMMISSION officially extended25 the Standardbred agreement to today's date, just soCAPITOL REPORTING, INC.(804) 788-4917 5 1 it is reflected in the minutes. 2 MR. SIEGEL: Okay. Everybody got a note on 3 that? Just one change in those minutes to reflect 4 that the extended Standardbred, I guess the decision 5 dates on the Standardbred to this meet from the 6 last. 7 MR. WEINBERG: Correct, and what was important 8 legally was that the agreement expired December 9 31st, but we agreed it would be extended until10 MR.

9 SIEGEL: Thank you. Any other comments? 12 NOTE: There is no response. 13 MR. SIEGEL: With that change, can I ask for14 approval of minutes? All in favor say NOTE: The COMMISSION votes MR. SIEGEL: Any opposed? 17 NOTE: There is no response. 18 MR. SIEGEL: Okay. Any commissioner comments?19 Any commissioner like to comment before we begin to20 go further? 21 NOTE: There is no response. 22 MR. SIEGEL: Okay.

10 Next on the agenda,23 committee reports. Do we have a Breeders' Fund24 subcommittee report today?25 MR. HETTEL: Sarge will read that into theCAPITOL REPORTING, INC.(804) 788-4917 6 1 record. 2 MR. S. REYNOLDS: Yes. We have the proposed 3 expenditures from the Thoroughbred portion of the 4 VIRGINIA Breeders' Fund for 2012. 5 The Thoroughbred subcommittee of the VIRGINIA 6 Breeders' Fund voted unanimously to recommend the 7 following expenditures from the Thoroughbred portion 8 of the VIRGINIA Breeders' Fund for 2012.