During its meeting on Thursday, November 2, in Louisville, Ky., the board of directors of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) announced future plans regarding anabolic steroids and out-of-competition drug testing, and received an
As Churchill Downs prepares to host the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, Kentucky regulators are examining the state’s drug-testing policies and procedures. Upgrades, however, may hinge on state funding.
For the Nov. 4 Breeders’ Cup, a full
The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) has filed an accusation against Thoroughbred racehorse trainer Gregory Vartanian for several rule violations after a horse in his care tested positive for the Class 1 prohibited substance methamphetamine
The Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council has allotted $1.5 million over three years to partner with the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium on a research project to determine withdrawal guidelines and threshold levels of therapeutic
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final guidance on quality systems, a set of formalized practices and procedures to ensure quality of human and veterinary drugs and human biological drug products during manufacturing. This
Of the medications available in the arsenal of anti-inflammatory therapies, there is one type that has caused
Is post-event drug testing becoming too sensitive, netting too many innocent violators? Are drug withdrawal guidelines for therapeutic medications too unreliable to be useful? Or are policies and tests being fine-tuned in a sensible manner in order
The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) has filed a complaint against trainer Jeff Mullins for multiple rule violations after a horse in his care, Robs Coin, tested positive for mepivacaine in the post-race urine sample.
Robs Coin
Researchers found that a performance-enhancing drug caused unpredictable, severe, and possibly life-threatening effects on horses. In a study completed at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College, researchers examined abnormal
Rick Arthur, DVM, the new equine medical director of the California Horse Racing Board, told a meeting of state horse breeders Sept. 22 that he plans to hold veterinarians accountable when trainers they advise are found in violation of horse
Kentucky has performed random testing for blood-doping antibodies in racehorses of all breeds for more than a year, but now it’s testing for the actual proteins, a process that could put more teeth in penalties.
The Kentucky Horse Racing
A subcommittee of the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council has recommended going forward with two studies–one that could lead to establishment of withdrawal times or threshold levels for therapeutic medications and one analyzing the medication
The veterinarian treating sprint champion Lost in the Fog for cancerous tumors said Friday that the colt has “a reasonable chance” of reducing them to a size that’s conducive for chemotherapy or surgery.
Dr. Gary Magdesian, chief of
A survey of buyers of Thoroughbred weanlings, yearlings, and 2-year-olds discovered that surgeries to correct conformation defects have a significant influence on whether or not someone will buy a horse at public auction.
In fact, 28.4%
In a lawsuit that is believed to be unprecedented, the owner of a horse disqualified for a drug positive is suing his trainer for the redistributed purse money.
Los Angeles-based attorney Alan Klein, whose Ellenay Racing owned Dyna Da
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A Pennsylvania laboratory is the first to employ a definitive test for erythropoietin–the blood-doping agent commonly known as EPO–and the test resulted in the suspension and fining of a trainer of
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