The Association of Racing Commissioners International has canceled its conference in April due to the coronavirus outbreak, the organization announced on Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday passed a bill that included an amendment requiring the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, a private non-profit company known as USADA, to prepare a presentation about how it would implement an “anti-doping program” for horse racing, according to the sponsor of the amendment.
Horses based in the Belmont Park barns of Jason Servis and Mike Tannuzzo were transferred to other trainers on Tuesday and Wednesday, but when those horses will be permitted to run again is uncertain.
Horses at Gulfstream Park trained by Jorge Navarro and Jason Servis, who were arrested Monday on federal indictments alleging they participated in a scheme to administer illegal medications to their horses, are in the process of being sent to other stables or to farms, Mike Lakow, Gulfstream Park's vice president of racing, said Wednesday.
The New York Gaming Commission on Tuesday afternoon became the first racing regulatory body in the United States to issue summary suspensions to the racing individuals named in indictments unsealed Monday, a decision that will likely trigger suspensions in other jurisdictions.
Owner Michael Dubb said Tuesday he plans on moving the approximate 25 horses he had with trainer Jason Servis to a host of other trainers, but it remains unclear when those horses - or any horse formerly trained by Servis - will be permitted to run in New York.
Twenty-four hours after being arrested in a horse-racing doping scandal, trainer Michael Tannuzzo was at Belmont Park Tuesday morning. It will likely be the last morning he is allowed on the grounds for a while.
No illegal medications were found in any of 23 horses who died at Santa Anita between Dec. 30, 2018, and March 31, 2019, according to a long-awaited report released Tuesday by the California Horse Racing Board.
The 27 defendants who were arrested and indicted Monday by federal authorities on charges related to manufacturing, procuring, distributing and administering illegal substances to racehorses are due back in court on March 23 for their initial pleas.
Owners who have horses based in New York with trainers Jason Servis and Mike Tannuzzo will have to make arrangements to move their stock to other trainers in the wake of the indictments handed down Monday by the District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, accusing both horsemen with participating in a scheme to administer illegal medications to horses.
