§ 180.51 Tampering with a sports contest in the first degree.
    A  person  is guilty of tampering with a sports contest in the first
degree when, with intent to influence the outcome of a pari-mutuel horse
race:
    1. He affects any equine animal involved in the conduct or operation
of a pari-mutuel horse race by administering to the animal in any manner
whatsoever  any  controlled  substance  listed  in  section thirty-three
hundred six of the public health law; or
    2.  He  knowingly enters or furnishes to another person for entry or
brings into this state for entry into a pari-mutuel horse race, or rides
or  drives in any pari-mutuel horse race any running, trotting or pacing
horse,  mare,  gelding,  colt  or  filly  under  an  assumed  name,   or
deceptively  out  of  its  proper  class,  or  that  has been painted or
disguised or represented to be  any  other  or  different  horse,  mare,
gelding, colt or filly from that which it actually is; or
    3.  He  knowingly and falsely registers with the jockey club, United
States  trotting  association,  American  quarterhorse  association   or
national  steeplechase and hunt association a horse, mare, gelding, colt
or filly previously registered under a different name; or
    4.  He  agrees with one or more persons to enter such misrepresented
or drugged animal in a pari-mutuel horse race. A  person  shall  not  be
convicted  of  a  violation  of  this subdivision unless an overt act is
alleged and proved to have been committed by  one  of  said  persons  in
furtherance of said agreement.
    Tampering  with  a  sports  contest in the first degree is a class E
felony.