RCI Releases State-by-State Drug Test Results

The Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI) has released a state-by-state breakdown of the results of equine drug testing in 2013.

Racing regulators in the United States sent 340,932 biological samples to various laboratories for testing last year, RCI officials said. The results show 99.65% of the samples had no violation.

The organization released the breakdown in conjunction with a release that suggests that U.S. horse racing performs far more drug tests than the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and World Anti-Doping Association (WADA), yet has comparable number of clean tests.

State-by-State Breakdown

Jurisdiction	Drug Tests	Violations	Adverse Analytical Finding Rate (%)	Clear Rate (%)
Alabama	1,576	1	0.063	99.94
Arkansas (Failed to Report)
Arizona	5,518	28	0.507	99.49
California*	26,005	89	0.342	99.66
Colorado	1,176	3	0.255	99.74
Delaware Harness	4,504	3	0.067	99.93
Delaware Thoroughbred	1,889	8	0.424	99.58
Florida*	68,317	251	0.367	99.63
Iowa	9,825	24	0.244	99.76
Idaho	363	5	1.377	98.62
Illinois	13,817	30	0.217	99.78
Indiana	8,792	5	0.057	99.94
Kentucky	7,588	56	0.738	99.26
Louisiana	12,806	74	0.578	99.42
Massachusetts	4,805	23	0.479	99.52
Maryland	8,898	1	0.011	99.99
Michigan	1,936	20	1.033	98.97
Minnesota	4,523	18	0.398	99.60
Montana	61	3	4.918	95.08
North Dakota	106	0	0.000	100.00
Nebraska	970	3	0.309	99.69
New Jersey	9,611	22	0.229	99.77
New Mexico	3,061	51	1.666	98.33
Nevada	182	1	0.549	99.45
New York	53,136	67	0.126	99.87
Ohio	14,311	75	0.524	99.48
Oklahoma	8,308	42	0.506	99.49
Oregon	1,211	9	0.743	99.26
Pennsylvania	32,678	52	0.159	99.84
South Dakota	132	0	0.000	100.00
Texas	11.010	68	0.618	99.38
Virginia	1,555	26	1.672	98.33
Washington	1,179	8	0.679	99.32
West Virginia	20,923	73	0.349	99.65
Wyoming	160	1	0.625	99.39
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