2020 Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit canceled

This year’s Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit has been canceled, but the organizer of the conference will instead begin showing weekly seminars on relevant topics beginning May 12, the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation announced Wednesday.

The cancellation of the conference, scheduled for June 23 at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, was due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The summit has been held on a semi-annual basis, and the organizers have used the conference to announce the findings of recent research and the conclusions from epidemiological analysis of the Equine Injury Database.

The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has already scheduled five webinars through June 9, including presentations on veterinary records, track surfaces, and an analysis of the injury data from 2019.