The developers of a risk-assessment model for racehorses in Hong Kong will attempt to build a similar model for U.S. racing by the end of next year, one of the developers said on Monday at the Safety and Welfare of the Racehorse Summit at Keeneland.
not surprising that the organizers of this year’s Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, which opened on Monday at Keeneland, staged a presentation allowing regulatory veterinarians and their supervisors to explain the data and policies that generally lead to raceday scratches.
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A New York court has ruled that it will not hear an appeal of a nearly four-year-old case involving trainer Todd Pletcher and the 2022 champion 2-year-old Forte, but Pletcher’s attorney said on Friday he will pursue another appeal to the state’s highest court.
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The Kentucky Equine Drug Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a proposal for a study that will examine the prevalence of unsoundness among horses that were scratched on race day by regulatory veterinarians.
Frank Stronach, the Canadian businessman who once headed a vast racing operation that included breeding farms and racetracks, was found guilty on Friday of sexual assault and indecent assault in a verdict issued by a Canadian judge.
Total commingled handle on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. tracks in May dropped 4 percent compared to the same month last year, but the number of races held dropped at a larger rate, according to figures distributed by Equibase on Friday.
The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has reduced a penalty for two violations of its prohibited substance policy to a series of fines after determining that a Parx-based trainer bore “no significant fault” for the finding of testosterone in hair samples from two mares in his care.
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The New York State Legislature is expected to pass a bill on Thursday containing language that would temporarily protect roughly $150 million in subsidies to the state’s Thoroughbred industry while a dispute between the state and its largest casino operator is ironed out.
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A hearing officer has ordered the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation to issue a training license to Maria Borell, the former trainer of 2015 champion sprinter Runhappy.
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A metric used by the New York Racing Association to measure price volatility in its exacta pools has dropped by more than half since the association put in restrictions on the amount of bets that can be sent into the pools by computer-assisted wagering groups earlier this year.
