Auli Farwa Receives Haggin Cup at 2015 Tevis Ride
Marsha Hayes
August 3, 2015
The 15-year-old Arabian gelding has completed all 62 rides he’s started throughout his career, including six Tevis Cups.
The 15-year-old Arabian gelding has completed all 62 rides he’s started throughout his career, including six Tevis Cups.
Other Round Table Conference discussion topics include microchips, the Equine Injury Database, and more.
Potato Richardson, 72, won his third Tevis Cup aboard his homebred 14-year-old Arabian mare SMR Filouette.
This year researchers will be collecting blood to evaluate the horses’ total protein, chloride, and potassium levels.
Organizers and volunteers are working to ensure an adequate water supply for participants in the 100-mile ride.
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.
The $15,000 grant will be used to construct new run-in sheds on Old Friends’ expanded Georgetown, Kentucky, facility.
Both riders had been provisionally suspended after their horses tested positive for prohibited substances.
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.
Codeine, oripavine, and morphine were found in samples from three jumping horses.
The legislation would establish an independent authority to implement a national uniform racehorse medication program.
The racehorse welfare and safety summit also covered racetrack surfaces, continuing education, and more.
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