Study to Evaluate Cobalt as Equine Performance Enhancer
Edited Press Release
August 25, 2015
The USTA-funded study will evaluate whether cobalt can improve performance and if it is detrimental to horses’ health.
The USTA-funded study will evaluate whether cobalt can improve performance and if it is detrimental to horses’ health.
Further review of the matter should help deal with potential problems, not sidetrack the initiative, officials say.
A group of attorneys believe horse racing’s anti-doping rules will continue to withstand legal challenge.
The comment period for the animal drug compounding draft guidance and list of bulk drug substances closes on Nov. 16.
The summit will feature renowned academics and researchers, owners, trainers and industry leaders.
The Thoroughbred trainer was indicted on charges connected to illegally administering substances to racehorses.
The jumping horses–Nino des Buissonnets, Nasa, and Charivari KG–tested positive for prohibited substances.
Speakers at a meeting agreed that Thoroughbred racing should continue pursuing legislation to reform medication rules.
A low dose of the sedative xylazine did not affect horses movement patterns, but higher doses could have more impact.
The tribunal suspended two riders and an owner for 24 months each after their horses tested positive for propoxyphene.
The ‘Prescription for Racing Reform’ seeks non-race day EIPH treatments, supports a 48-hour NSAID rule, and more.
Firocoxib and acetaminophen showed promise in alleviating acute equine foot pain, researchers found.
The move follows an investigation into horse welfare issues and noncompliance with FEI endurance rules and regulations.
Thoroughbred trainer Tom Amoss was suspended for 45 days and fined $5,000 for a 2011 positive test for methocarbamol.
The commission suspended clenbuterol use in Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds racing that state though July 2016.
Buyers can have yearlings and horses in training to be exported to Great Britain tested for anabolic steroids.
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