When the board of the Breeders’ Cup met recently to vote on whether to suspend a policy that would ban the raceday administration of the legal anti-bleeding medication furosemide at its 2013 event, its members had to weigh the changes that had occurred in the racing industry since the policy was first approved in 2011. As it turned out, the racing industry hadn’t changed much at all.
Julie Balog, Keeneland's director of communications, will step down from her position at the Lexington, Ky., racetrack following the 2013 spring meeting to become vice president of marketing and communications for the YMCA of Central Kentucky.
The six semi-finalists for the seventh annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award have been released.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned a decision by Kentucky regulators to issue a five-year suspension to Dr. Rod Stewart in 2009.
A U.S. district court judge has allowed former Eclipse Award-winning owner Michael Gill to withdraw from a lawsuit he filed with a trainer against jockeys at Penn National Race Course.
Trainers of horses who suffer catastrophic injuries at the racetracks owned by Penn National Gaming Inc. will be required to participate in a “mortality review” with track officials and veterinarians under new house rules the company is putting into effect for all of its tracks in 2013.
Eight racing states along the Eastern Seaboard, including New York and Pennsylvania, have agreed to adopt a set of policies designed to tighten the administration of medication to racehorses and align the states under one set of rules, the organization that pushed for the agreement announced Tuesday.
Daily Racing Form has named Mark Simon to the new position of Editorial Director. Simon joined the company in October 2012 from the Thoroughbred Times to lead DRF Breeding, the company’s expanded coverage of the breeding and sales segment of Thoroughbred racing.
The fatality rate for Thoroughbred horses running on synthetic surfaces continues to be far lower than the rate on dirt and turf surfaces, according to a Friday release by the Jockey Club of updated figures gleaned from the Equine Injury Database.
The New York Racing Association has talked the talk during its first two open board meetings about cracking down on trainers who violate medication rules. But it’s going to have a tough time walking the walk.
