Gulfstream Park, in Hallandale Beach, Florida, will begin third-party administration of race-day furosemide on Wednesday, Nov. 19.
In 2014 TCA granted more than $512,000 to about 75 charities working to aid in Thoroughbred rescue, retirement and adoption, backstretch and farm worker services, research, and therapeutic riding.
The backlog of samples accrued over the past several months at LGC Laboratory in Lexington, Kentucky.
Emily Champion, DVM, who practiced veterinary medicine at Delta Downs racetrack, was the victim of a homicide Oct. 26 while visiting her parents at their rural western Kentucky home.
Ross Russell, DVM, was suspended and fined $20,000 for allegedly administering cobalt to a horse before a race and several other offenses.
Starting in 2015, trainers convicted of some medication violations will not be able to transfer horses to assistant trainers or other employees to race in the Breeders’ Cup.
The proposed rules establish threshold limits for 24 therapeutic medications that could be present in a horse on race day, and restrict three corticosteroids to joint injections only.
A review shows that the majority of major racing jurisdictions will have a substantial portion of the program’s four principal components in place by year’s end.
The federal court determined that the ban is not anti-competitive or a restraint on trade.
Ruidoso Downs Race Track is implementing a new program that chairman R.D. Hubbard said is part “our on-going effort to ensure the integrity and safety of the sport and its participants.”
Once fully adopted, Arkansas will join Delaware, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Dakota, and Virginia as the sixth state to fully implement the program, with many other states undergoing some part of the process.
Volunteers are needed to assist in a variety of patron services Oct. 31- Nov. 2 at the California track.
A backlog at its primary laboratory has led the Indiana Horse Racing Commission to contract with a second lab on an emergency basis.
Wickliffe Veterinary Pharmacy said it has taken steps to reinforce its safety and quality standards and has cooperated with a federal agency’s inquiry into “adverse events earlier this year.”
The Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI) has voted to recommend increased penalties for the detection of multiple non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, commonly known as NSAIDs, in racehorses.
Furosemide is currently the only recognized treatment for exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage.
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