OBS Adopting Model Medication Rules
The Blood-Horse Staff
February 13, 2015
The sales company will begin implementing guidelines for controlled therapeutic medications this spring.
The sales company will begin implementing guidelines for controlled therapeutic medications this spring.
Dr. Foster Northrop and Dr. Eric Mueller join a group working to pass pari-mutuel wagering legislation in Georgia.
Starlight issued the challenge in memory of Intense Holiday, a racehorse who was euthanized after developing laminitis.
The colt’s bloodwork showed the presence of altrenogest, a product typically used to regulate mares’ estrous cycles.
Officials are looking into a report that a yearling sold at a recent auction has tested positive for anabolic steroids.
Testing is still required for Quarter Horses at sanctioned tracks and all horses at unsanctioned racetracks.
Discussion topics will include expanded lab capabilities, emerging integrity threats, combating doping, and more.
The additional protocols come in the wake of a recent rash of catastrophic breakdowns at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The standing MRI is the first installed at a Thoroughbred racetrack or training center in North America, officials say.
Mary Scollay-Ward, DVM; Rick Arthur, DVM; and Lynn Hovda, MS, DVM, signed the letter of support.
Three Thoroughbred yearlings died in a Central Kentucky barn fire just before midnight on Jan. 10.
TCA raises and distributes funds to provide a better life for Thoroughbreds during and after their racing careers.
The group wants to ensure agencies can sanction licensees who violate restrictions on illegally compounded drugs.
The Blood-Horse will receive the 2014 Media Eclipse Award in the audio/multimedia Internet category.
The pledge will cover donations up to a total of $100,000 that are made through Dec. 31, 2015.
James G. “Jimmy” Bell, president and racing manager of Darley America, has been elected president of the organization.
Stay on top of the most recent Horse Health news with
© 2022 Copyright Statement dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing User Terms, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
