Here is the bottom line. It is not the clocker's job to get a horse qualified to enter. It is his job to record the workouts.
The TRAINER's job is know the rules and act/train in a way the gets his horse entered.
This is not as bad as it sounded at first, but, the way to "fix" rules that are not right is NOT to oignore them or circumvent them.
Stay in your lane, bro.