The horses of Thoroughbred owner Michael Gill entered for the Feb. 3 race card at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course will be permitted to start unless the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission steps in with immediate action, a spokesman for Penn National Gaming Inc. ({NGI) said Jan 29.

Gill's horses were temporarily banned from the entry box at the Pennsylvania track from Jan. 27-30 after members of the jockey colony threatened to boycott races in which his horses ran.

On Jan. 23, the riders refused to compete against horses owned by Gill and conditioned by his two main trainers, Darrel Delahoussaye and Anthony Adamo, due to their concerns over a high number of breakdowns in Gill-owned horses, and following the catastrophic breakdowns of two of his runners in a three-day period beginning Jan. 21.

According to Eric Schippers, senior vice president of public affairs for PNGI, the track has not yet received a response to a letter sent to the PHRC Jan. 28, but management remains "confident they will take swift action to investigate this matter given the allegations involved