The racing fatality rate at racetracks under the jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority was 0.83 per thousand starts during the first three months of the year, HISA reported on Wednesday.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has appointed four new members to its Horsemen’s Advisory Board, including Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher, HISA said on Monday.
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More than an hour after Sunday's first race, the line of cars stretched from the nearby freeway, down a short road and up the long hill leading to the public parking lots at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, Calif.
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Frank Stronach, the prominent former Thoroughbred owner-breeder and racetrack owner, was arrested on Friday by police in Peel, Ontario, Canada, and charged with five counts related to sexual assault, according to a release from the police.
The Federal Trade Commission has approved a voluminous set of new rules devised by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority that includes provisions allowing HISA to block a track from sending its signal to out-of-state racing locations if the authority believes conditions are unsafe at the track.
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The Louisiana Racing Commission on Friday wholly rescinded a bloc of new medication regulations set to go into effect on Saturday in an acknowledgement that the blowback to the rules would have dramatically weakened the state’s racing productand isolated the state’s Thoroughbreds.
The Louisiana Racing Commission has called for a second emergency meeting this week, this time to consider rescinding its approval for an entire suite of amendments to its therapeutic medication rules passed in late April that are significantly more relaxed than those in most other racing states.
Total wagering on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. tracks during the month of May was up marginally on a slight decrease on the number of races held when compared to the same month last year, according to figures released by Equibase on Thursday.
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Horses shipping from the state of Louisiana to tracks under the jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will be required to be placed on the vets’ list beginning on June 9, according to a memo HISA sent to tracks and racing officials on Wednesday.
The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has lifted the provisional suspension of George Weaver for a positive for metformin following a recommendation that the use of the substance in horses be studied further. The decision to review the drug will immediately affect Weaver and another trainer, Ramon Aguayo, who had a horse test positive for metformin five weeks ago but had yet to be issued a provisional suspension pending the confirmation of the drug in a split sample.
