Lab accreditation, quality assurance to get close look


Racehorse owners would contribute about $4.5 million a year to support research projects under a recommendation by the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium, which continues to seek a uniform policy for medication and drug testing in the United States.


The consortium met Sept. 9 in Lexington, Ky. It has proposed a $5 per-start fee to be paid by owners of Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, and Quarter Horses. Representatives of the three breeds have seats on the consortium, which has a new chairman in Dan Fick, executive director of The Jockey Club.


Fick takes over for D.G. Van Clief Jr., the Breeders’ Cup chief who recently took over as interim commissioner of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association upon the resignation of Tim Smith. Van Clief said he “would have loved to have stayed, because it’s really picking up momentum. It’s only an issue of the amount of time I wasn’t going to have going forward

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