CONDITION CHANGES: The stake will now have gold and grassroots earnings thresholds for pacers for both before and after August 1st at participating Island tracks. 

GENERAL CONDITIONS: 
1.MPHRC assumes no liability for purses, injury, damages, or loss to participants in this event.
2. For this program, PEI foaled shall be defined as: A foal whose place of birth on the applicable Standardbred Canada/USTA registration certificate is indicated to be Prince Edward Island.
3. The stakes administrator reserves the right to request the following from the nominator: proof of sale, proof of payment, and/or training bills with proof of payment from an owner whose horse has been late nominated to the Lady Slipper Stake and is not PE foaled. This is to verify that the horse in question is owned by the PE resident listed on the horse’s ownership papers and remains in that ownership for the duration of the series. Failure to provide the information requested to the stakes administrator will result in the horse being ineligible to the stake.
4. Each event is to be contested at one mile (1609 m).
5. Purse distribution for five or more finishers is 45%, 25%, 15%, 10% and 5%; four finishers is 50%, 25%, 15% and 10%; three finishers 50%, 30% and 20%; two finishers 60% and 40%, and one finisher 100%.
6. All nominating, sustaining, and starting fees shall be added to the purses with no deduction for clerical or managerial work, advertising, or publicity.
7. Events will be raced in Gold and Grassroots formats in the pacing divisions. For any event held before August 1 st , two-year-old pacers with $10,000 or less in lifetime earnings and three-year olds with $30,000 or less in lifetime earnings at time of declaration will be eligible to race in a grassroots division. For any event held after August 1 st , two-year-old pacers with $20,000 or less in lifetime earnings and three-year-old pacers with $40,000 or less in lifetime earnings at time of declaration will be eligible to race in a grassroots division. Horses fitting the grassroots thresholds have the option to declare into a gold division. All horses with earnings exceeding the grassroots thresholds must compete in the gold division. Trotting events will separate filly and colt divisions of the same age group if there is a minimum of three (3) horses of the same sex in each division. Trotting events are not separated into Gold and Grassroot formats. 
8. If more horses declare to start than are permitted in one dash on the track where the race is to take place, the event shall be split into divisions with entries determined by Standardbred Canada electronic draw. No division shall consist of more than eight (8). If two or more divisions are required, the host track shall add the regular portion to each division.
9. Any entry changing gait after the sustaining fee(s) have been made will be transferred to the new gait adopted, providing such request is in writing. The starting fees for the said entry shall be applied to the new gait.
10. The PEI Harness Racing Industry Association, within its sole discretion, may from time to time make changes to the terms, conditions, and/or to the purse structure of the PEI Lady Slipper Series of any kind whatsoever, including added money, as well as nomination and sustaining payments and starting fees with the approval of the MPHRC and proper notice given to the industry, and the nominator agrees to be bound by such changes. 
11. Should conditions beyond the control of the PEIHRIA prevent the racing of any event, the PEIHRIA reserves the right to declare off any event and distribute the money to the current eligibles, or to transfer the event to another date, or to another track, or to do both.
12. In the event that an explicit interpretation of these conditions might not be acceptable to all parties, the Board of Directors of the PEIHRIA reserves the right to interpret these conditions in an implicit manner in accordance with the goals and objectives of the organization as may be established and amended from time to time with the approval of the MPHRC and proper notice
given to the industry.
13. Standardbred Canada and the PEIHRIA assume no responsibility for nominations or payments made by mail which are not received. Sending payments by Registered Mail is recommended. All payments must be post-marked no later than the said due date.