At its monthly meeting held Wednesday at Los Alamitos, the California Horse Racing Board moved to 45-day public comment period a proposed amendment requiring authorized bleeder medication be administered by an independent third-party veterinarian.
Joe Morris, the president of the Thoroughbred Owners of California since early 2013, has been hired by The Stronach Group to oversee the company’s West Coast operations, which includes Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., and Golden Gate Fields in Northern California, the company has announced.
A national umbrella organization for state racing commissions will identify those states that have not adopted the group’s uniform rules and work with the commissions to adopt the regulations, the group said on Wednesday, in an acknowledgement that state racing commissions have been slow to respond to national calls for action.
A national umbrella organization for state racing commissions will identify those states that have not adopted the group’s uniform rules and work with the commissions to adopt the regulations, the group said on Wednesday, in an acknowledgement that state racing commissions have been slow to respond to national calls for action.
A Jockey Club-affiliated charitable fundraising group has selected two projects studying bleeding in racehorses and the effects of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide for funding, the organization announced on Tuesday.
Tom Amoss, the trainer ranked 32nd in the U.S. by purse earnings in 2015, will begin a 45-day suspension imposed by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission on Thursday, running through the end of October and the two-day Breeders’ Cup event at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
The company that owns a harness track and a Thoroughbred track in Indiana has joined a coalition calling for the appointment of the U.S. Ant-Doping Agency to enforce U.S. racing’s medication policies and drug-testing programs, the coalition announced Thursday.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club will assist horse-racing organizations in mainland China in developing the sport and implementing drug-testing protocols over the next several years as part of an agreement with China’s racing regulatory body, the two organizations announced jointly on Thursday at a press conference in Beijing.
An adjunct to the Kentucky Legislature voted on Tuesday to find “deficient” a rule allowing racetracks to card races open only to horses that have not received a raceday administration of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide, placing the implementation of the rule in jeopardy.
The California Horse Racing Board moved closer to implementing rules for the third-party administration of Lasix when its medication committee approved proposed rules at a meeting on Friday.
