Jockey Club to Discuss Anti-Doping, Racing Reform
Edited Press Release
August 2, 2015
Other Round Table Conference discussion topics include microchips, the Equine Injury Database, and more.
Other Round Table Conference discussion topics include microchips, the Equine Injury Database, and more.
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.
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.
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.
The event is designed to help vets assess, diagnose, and treat a range of performance-limiting diseases and conditions.
The multiple graded stakes winner developed laminitis after stepping on a nail following her most recent victory.
Racing jurisdictions in nine states have now adopted the program in its entirety.
The TCA Thoroughbred Makeover will feature 350 recently retired racehorses competing in 10 disciplines.
The IHRC’s former primary laboratory missed seven positive drug tests, including one for a Class 1 drug.
Among the topics to be covered are racetrack surfaces, injury databases, continuing education, and post-mortem programs.
The Louisiana Horse Rescue Association and LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers received awards in June.
The coalition supports national oversight of uniform medication standards in Thoroughbred racing.
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