By: Natalie Voss Veterinarians have long been searching for some sort of advance warning that a horse may be on the brink of suffering a serious bone or soft tissue injury. Recent research into biomarkers may provide practitioners with more tools to anticipate problems or a better understanding of a horse's discomfort after it has
By: TDN The Jockey Club’s Graded Stakes Out-of-Competition Testing Grant Fund will continue to provide racetracks with funding for out-of-competition testing for the presence of blood doping agents and RCI Class 1 substances. The program, created in 2014, has been utilized by tracks in California, Florida, Kentucky, New York and Ontario. Thoroughbred racetracks that elect
By: TDN Trainer Peter Moody will sit out of training the next six months as penalty for presenting a horse to race under his care with cobalt in its system above the permitted threshold. The suspension handed down by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board was actually 12 months, but if Moody doesn’t commit a
By: Times Online The newly formed Royal Turf Club (RTC), committed to ensuring horseracing, is planning to conduct drug tests on horses prior to its inaugural races on Sunday (20) according to an official. “The Royal Turf Club is passionate about and dedicated to ensuring and upholding ethics through maintaining a zero tolerance policy towards
By: TDN Trainer Peter Moody has been cleared of a charge for administering cobalt for the purpose of affecting the performance of his former charge Lidari (Fr) (Acclamation {GB}); however, the champion Victorian trainer still faces charges for presenting the Group 2 winner to race with the substance in his system above the permitted threshold,
By: Clay Wilson New Zealand Sports Hall of Famer Lance O'Sullivan and co-trainer Andrew Scott say the high cobalt readings for three of their horses came from water troughs the horses shared with cattle. The troughs had been dosed with cobalt  to assist the health of the cattle, their lawyer said. The pair admitted three of their horses raced with
By: Frank Angst In a settlement with the Indiana Horse Racing Commission, trainer Randy Haffner will serve at least a 45-day suspension for 2015 violations in Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse races at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino. Under the agreement approved by the IHRC at its March 15 regular meeting, Haffner withdraws his appeal in
By: NTRA The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced today that Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, near Los Angeles, has earned re-accreditation from the NTRA Safety & Integrity Alliance. Since 1934, Santa Anita has been one of America’s leading racetracks, showcasing Hall of Fame legends like Seabiscuit, Affirmed, Spectacular Bid, John Henry and Zenyatta. In addition to
By: T.D. Thornton The Texas Racing Commission has ended a year-long study on corticosteroid use and will begin enforcing threshold levels in Thoroughbreds that meet Racing Medication and Testing Consortium standards starting with the opening of the Lone Star Park racing season Apr. 7. Horsemen were given notice of the policy change in the form
By: Steve Anderson A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled on Thursday that Los Alamitos Race Course was in violation of state law when it denied owner Gustavo de la Torre the right to run Runaway Fire in the $175,100 El Primero Del Ano Derby for Quarter Horses last April. Los Alamitos implemented a house
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