Breeders’ Cup Ltd. has reaffirmed its plan to ban race-day medications in World Championships races for 2-year-olds this year, despite recent action by the American Graded Stakes Committee (AGSC) to delay implementation of such a ban in juvenile graded stakes races run in 2012.

"Currently we are not planning any changes to our medication policy for the 2012 Breeders’ Cup World Championships," the Breeders’ Cup said in a statement released following the action by the AGSC, which is a division of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association.

The AGSC’s decision to ban race-day medications for 2-year-old graded stakes last August followed the Breeders’ Cup’s announcement that it would begin a phaseout of allowing medications for World Championships races and would begin with the five juvenile races scheduled for the Nov. 2-3 event at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.

Elimination of race-day medications are primarily aimed to prohibiting the widespread use of the anti-bleeder medication furosemide, marketed as Salix