A regulation that would phase out the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide in Kentucky over the next three years failed by the slimmest of margins on Monday when the 14-member Kentucky Horse Racing Commission split the vote, causing the measure’s defeat.
The Kentucky Racing Commission Monday failed to pass a recommendation from its raceday drug committee to ban the anti-bleeding medication furosemide when a vote of the full commission ended in a 7-7 tie.
A committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission will likely call for an up or down vote on the prohibition of the raceday administration of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide at a meeting on Monday.
The New York Racing Association is challenging the methodology used by the New York Times in a March 25 article that reported a high incident rate of injury at Saratoga Race Course.
Clenbuterol, a bronchodilator that also is sometimes used to build muscle, may be prohibited for raceday use in Thoroughbreds in California as early as this summer, according to discussions at the California Horse Racing Board track safety and medication committee meeting on Wednesday.
A Kentucky judge has granted former Kentucky chief state steward John Veitch a stay of a Kentucky Horse Racing Commission ruling that prevented him from seeking a racing license for one year.
After winning narrow approval in the legislature last week, a bill which would authorize Instant Racing machines at racetracks in Nebraska, has been vetoed by Gov. Dave Heineman.
Jambalaya never won a Sovereign Award, but he has been accorded an honor which has eluded many, many Sovereign winners as he is among the 2012 inductees to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
A dispute over the sale of a 4-year-old filly named Ohbabyobeyme highlights the perils of the unregulated world of private horse sales.
The vote for Canada’s 2011 Horse of the Year couldn’t have been any closer. But, when the top three choices of 37 Sovereign Award voters had been tallied, the older turf mare Never Retreat was the winner by a 98-96 margin over Inglorious.
