The Australian Arabian Rules of Racing are modeled on the Australian Rules of Racing with the following addendum's pertaining to Arabian Horses:

AAR.14. No horse if in Australia shall be entered for and no horse shall run in any race or barrier trial unless it has been registered with a WAHO approved Studbook, provided that the National Arabian Racing Association Ltd., after conferring with the appropriate Registrar, may allow a horse registered abroad to start upon such conditions as they see fit.

AAR.16. No Horse shall be considered for identification as an Arabian racehorse unless it is registered in a WAHO recognised Studbook in Australia or an equivalent accepted Studbook of another country.

AAR.19. The Registrar will only accept for racehorse identification the name of a horse as registered in the approved Studbook or equivalent accepted Studbook of another country.

AAR.37. No Arabian horse shall be permitted to start in any official school, trial or race until the January of its 3yr old year.

Running

AAR.129 (2) When a horse or its rider is found by the Stewards to be guilty of causing interference in any part of a race, the horse shall be placed behind the horse or horses with which it has interfered or placed last in the order of finish. (rule added 1.4.05)

AAR.129 (3) The rider of each horse shall take all reasonable and permissible measures throughout the race to ensure that a safe distance between horses is maintained. (rule added 1.4.05)

Jockeys & Riders

AAR. 82.(c) Every rider when riding a horse shall have the length of the stirrups adjusted to a length that allows the rider to grip with their knees. (rule added 1.4.05)

AAR. 82 (d) Every rider when riding a horse must ride with the ball of their foot in the irons. (rule added 1.4.05)

AAR.79(1) A jockey licenced by NARA may own or part own a horse which is in training or entered for a race only if;
the jockey is not an apprentice jockey; and
the horse is owned by or leased to;
the jockey only; or
the jockey and the jockey's spouse and no other person; or
the jockey is the/or a lessor but not the/or a lessee of that horse.

(2) Whenever a jockey and that jockey's spouse race a horse that jockey must be the person whose name is, or one of the persons whose names are, recorded in that behalf on the prescribed form as having the authority under these rules to enter for or withdraw or scratch the horse from any race and that jockey's name must always appear in the racebook, for any meeting for which the horse is accepted, as one of the persons in whose name the horse is raced.

(3) No jockey shall, in any race in which there runs any horse owned by that jockey or that jockey and that jockey's spouse, ride any other owner's horse.

(4) In the event of a jockey failing to comply with any of the foregoing requirements of this rule the jockey and the trainer of and every other person having any interest in the horse owned by the jockey or that jockey and that jockey's spouse, commit a breach of these rules. Either the horse owned by the jockey or that jockey and that jockey's spouse, or both that horse and the horse ridden by the jockey may be disqualified from any race in which it or they started during any such breach and it or they may also be disqualified for such further period as the judicial committee thinks fit.

A trainers licence may be issued to a licenced jockey at the discretion of the National Arabian Racehorse Association Ltd. or the National Sprint Racing Association who may impose such conditions as they deem necessary.