Company hired to police drugs in US horse racing

AUTHOR: ASSOCIATED PRESS RELEASE | 3 May 2022 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A deal for Drug Free Sport International to police medication in horse racing was announced Tuesday, two months before the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority takes effect. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency had been set [emphasis added] to become the regulator for anti-doping and…

Jockey Club Round Table: HISA ‘Best ever opportunity to right our badly listing ship’

Via the PAULICK REPORT by Alexa Ravit, 15th August 2021 The 69th Annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing concluded Sunday with emphatic support for the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) by The Jockey Club Chairman Stuart S. Janney III, who presided over the conference and referenced in his closing remarks the…

California Horse Racing Board discuss impact of Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act

We posted what the United States Trotting Association has to say about the HISA. They do not like it. They say it is unconstitutional. We posted what the American Quarter Horse Association has to say about the HISA. They do not like it. They say it lacks detail “concerning funding sources that would sustain the…

In wake of doping scandal, Kentucky may fund national testing lab

By Ryan Dickey | Horse Racing Nation Kentucky legislators have passed a one-year budget for the upcoming fiscal year with three initiatives intended to bolster the integrity of horse racing in the state and on a national level.  An $11.3 billion general fund budget is awaiting approval by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. Three horse racing-specific…

The Sting that is so stinging to U.S. horse racing

Testing racehorses for "doping" or performance-enhancing drugs may be better described as a band aid, but not the cure.

Innovative Tools to Detect Lameness and Pre-existing Injury in Racehorses

By JANE ALLIN LAMENESS LOCATOR Lameness is a term used to describe a horse’s change in gait, usually in response to pain in a limb that can occur due to a wide variety of causes (e.g. degenerative joint disease, laminitis, infection). Some conditions are more easily diagnosed and treated than others, which may only cause…

Federal anti racehorse doping legislation on its way

This article shows what a bunch of comedians we have in the American horse racing industry. The Paulick Report states: Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY), who serves as co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Horse Caucus and represents New York’s 20th Congressional District, today announced plans to introduce the Thoroughbred Horse Racing Anti-Doping Act of 2015 to…

U.S. Anti Doping Agency’s Travis Tygart rates Thoroughbred horseracing’s drug problem a 10 out of 10

Says He’s Ready to Step in if the Bill (the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act) Passes in Congress to Put USADA in Charge SOURCE: CBS NEWS PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK (June 3, 2014)—The man who tackled Lance Armstrong and the drug problem in professional cycling says the use of performance enhancing drugs in American horse…

Proposed Bill would give USADA authority over horse racing

Cross-posted from the New York Times WRITTEN BY JOE DRAPE Two lawmakers who contend that the United States Anti-Doping Agency is the most effective agency to regulate horse racing plan to introduce a bill in Congress to give it the authority to enforce antidoping standards and to kick out violators. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety…