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720 ILCS 5/48-6

    (720 ILCS 5/48-6)
    Sec. 48-6. Horse racing false entry.

(a) That in order to encourage the breeding of and
improvement in trotting, running and pacing horses in the State, it is hereby made unlawful for any person or persons knowingly to
enter or cause to be entered for competition, or knowingly to compete with
any horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly under any other than its true name
or out of its proper class for any purse, prize, premium, stake or
sweepstakes offered or given by any agricultural or other society,
association, person or persons in the State  where the prize,
purse, premium, stake or sweepstakes is to be decided by a contest of
speed.

(b) The name of any horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly, for the
purpose of entry for competition or performance in any contest of speed,
shall be the name under which the horse has publicly performed, and shall
not be changed after having once so performed or contested for a prize,
purse, premium, stake or sweepstakes, except as provided by the code of
printed rules of the society or association under which the contest is
advertised to be conducted.

(c) The official records shall be
received in all courts as evidence upon the trial of any person under
the provisions of this Section.

(d) Sentence. A violation of subsection (a) is a Class 4 felony.

(Source: P.A. 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13.)