Blood-Horse State-by-state efforts to bring about uniformity in medication policies, drug testing, and enforcement aren't sufficient to move the Thoroughbred industry forward as it struggles to improve its brand, speakers said Aug. 9 at The Jockey Club Round Table conference. Medication issues dominated the second half of the two-hour conference held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. [...]

Blood-Horse The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Safety Committee will implement a centralized database for racehorse necropsy information and has recommended all horses that come off the vet's list be subject to testing based on current medication rules. Since its inception in 2008, the committee has made about 20 recommendations designed to improve racehorse health and safety. [...]

Paulick Report Following Sunday’s Jockey Club Round Table on Matters Pertaining to Racing, held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the following statements were issued by Ed Martin, president of the Association of Racing Commissioners International. The ARCI is an umbrella organization of racing regulators in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago. For more on [...]

Blood-Horse The Thoroughbred Racing Associations Board of Directors reiterated its commitment to the implementation of uniform medication policies with a sense of urgency throughout the U.S, at its Aug. 7 meeting in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The board reviewed the progress made in the adoption of uniform rules proposed by the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium [...]

NHBPA The National HBPA’s annual Summer Convention will commence on August 6 and run through August 9 at the Grand Hyatt Denver in Colorado. The meeting of North America’s largest horsemen’s association is being hosted by the Colorado Horseracing Association. The first full day of the convention on Friday will include a legislative affairs forum [...]

Blood-Horse The sizable faction of owners and trainers dissatisfied with the leadership of the New England affiliate of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association has splintered to form the new Massachusetts Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association. "We filed all of the paperwork with the office of the Massachusetts Secretary of State yesterday," said Billy Lagorio, who was [...]

NHBPA President: John Wainwright Executive Director: Lanny Brooks Owners: Bill Duncan Robert Martinez John Moroney Bret Rosendohl Ron Rujawitz Trainers: Eddie Essenpreis Jerry Hammond Steve Manley Tom Trione John Wainwright

The Racing Biz A late game application for a single day of racing is serving as a legal placeholder for Colonial Downs and impedes forward motion to reopen off-track betting in Virginia. The application was made on the morning of a Virginia Racing Commission meeting on July 29th. The Commission was already looking at an [...]

Blood-Horse The West Virginia Racing Commission voted July 28 to hire a new equine drug-testing laboratory when the contract with its current lab ends at the end of August. West Virginia is one of four states in the Mid-Atlantic region that employs Truesdail Laboratories of California; the others are Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. The [...]

Blood-Horse Calder Casino & Race Course is said to be planning to demolish its seven-story grandstand/clubhouse building beginning in December after a two-month meet operated by Gulfstream Park. Calder parent company Churchill Downs Inc. hasn't commented on the development. "(Calder officials) told us that they plan to start tearing down their building right after the [...]