Racing could follow Olympic example – anti-doping boss
Racing could follow the event of the Olympic Movement to save the integrity of competition, the caput of the US Anti-Doping Agency told an American racing conference.
The agency’s principal executive, Travis Tygart, said programs centered on the uniformity of rules, drug testing as well as drug testing research, every bit good every bit intensive investigative as well as educational initiatives, had enabled the Olympic get to amend protect the rights of athletes as well as save the integrity of competition.
It could be an event for thoroughbred racing to follow, Tygart told 350 attendees as well as a webcast audience during his keynote address at The Jockey Club’s 60th Annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing on Sunday.
“In 1999, nosotros position a stake inward the reason as well as said construct clean athletes are going to direct keep a adventure to win,” Tygart said.
“A win-at-all-costs civilisation has taken over the system, as well as if you lot remain stagnant, the cheaters volition larn ahead.
“Testing provides the necessary deterrent … Our sense since 1999 tin live on an event for you lot [horse racing] inward monastic tell to convey the magic dorsum to the sport.”
Medication as well as performance-enhancing drugs were major themes of the conference at Saratoga Springs.
Tygart’s presentation followed 1 focused on Clean as well as Safe Horseracing: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Report of the Thoroughbred Safety Committee, delivered jointly yesteryear Jockey Club vice-chairman Stuart Janney III, who is likewise chairman of the Thoroughbred Safety Committee, as well as Matt Iuliano, the executive vice-president as well as executive managing director of The Jockey Club.
Janney reiterated the importance of adopting the Reformed Racing Medication Rules, a gear upwards of proposed rules developed yesteryear The Jockey Club that characteristic a novel categorization of medications, to a greater extent than clearly defined regulatory limits as well as dramatically remodeled penalties.
The scheme is encouraging all thoroughbred racing jurisdictions to implement them inward monastic tell to improve the integrity of the sport as well as heighten the security of its athletes.
“We direct keep to concur on a finish of ensuring that our sport is every bit condom every bit possible as well as that our athletes are properly cared for,” Janney said. “We must likewise reassure populace observers as well as our fans that nosotros compare favorably to other sports as well as the international racing community.”
Janney likewise announced that a tertiary edition of the Reformed Racing Medication Rules has been published as well as that the Thoroughbred Owners as well as Breeders Association as well as the American Quarter Horse Association direct keep both endorsed the document.
“The back upwards from these ii of import organizations exemplifies the growing momentum for medication reform inward this country, as well as nosotros volition live on encouraging others to follow their example,” Janney said.
The updated version of the Reformed Racing Medication Rules features ii changes:
- Clenbuterol shall non live on administered less than 21 days earlier the scheduled postal service fourth dimension for which a Equus caballus is entered to compete. Previously, the Reformed Racing Medication Rules recommended 10 days.
- The 2d modify is the improver of Exhibit 3, which provides guidance as well as best practices to regulators inward the management of their furosemide programs.
The improver of Exhibit three likewise recognized that furosemide is currently an authorized race-day medication.
The Jockey Club has long advocated that horses race alone when gratis from the influence of medication.
Janney likewise announced the Thoroughbred Safety Committee’s 14th as well as 15th recommendations.
In an endeavor to improve security as well as injury mitigation planning, the commission has called for all racing regulatory regime as well as the Association of Racing Commissioners International prepare as well as implement a dominion calling for a stewards’ investigation as well as study of the circumstances associated amongst racing fatalities.
In an endeavor to farther ensure the security of Equus caballus as well as rider, the commission has likewise called for all racing regulatory regime as well as Association of Racing Commissioners International to prepare as well as implement a dominion to allow a claim to live on voided on horses that officially complete the race soundless neglect to render to the designated unsaddling area.
A re-create of the entire text of the novel recommendations, along amongst the get-go xiii recommendations issued yesteryear the Thoroughbred Safety Committee, is available at jockeyclub.com.
Jason G. Wilson, vice president of trouble concern evolution for The Jockey Club, as well as Michael Lamb of the media as well as amusement partition of McKinsey & Company provided an update on the initiatives undertaken yesteryear The Jockey Club next the comprehensive economical study of the Thoroughbred manufacture yesteryear McKinsey 1 yr ago.
Gagliano pointed out that the marketing programs volition live on successful alone if thoroughbred racing manufacture reforms its medication rules.
“We tin supply the best service possible to our respective customers,” he said. “We tin accomplish out to novel fans. We tin attract novel owners. We tin procure sponsorship as well as tv set programming. But I assure you lot those marketing efforts volition live on seriously as well as dangerously compromised if nosotros create non reform our medication policies as well as improve our drug-testing standards as well as our penalization system.”
The Reformed Racing Medication Rules integrate rules drawn from numerous sources, including private racing jurisdictions, the Association of Racing Commissioners International, the Racing Medication as well as Testing Consortium (RMTC) as well as the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities.
“The adoption of the reformed rules would live on a win/win province of affairs for this industry,” said Jockey Club chairman Ogden Mills Phipps.
“It would undoubtedly create goodness the honest as well as rule-abiding horsemen. And, simply every bit importantly, it would create goodness our valued customer, the racing fan, who is wagering hard-earned coin on what he believes to live on a fair as well as construct clean competition.”
A replay of the Round Table Conference webcast is available at jockeyclub.com. An official transcript of the proceedings volition live on available on the website yesteryear Tuesday.
More information most the Thoroughbred Owners as well as Breeders Association as well as the American Quarter Horse Association is available on their respective websites: toba.org as well as aqha.com. The USADA website is usantidoping.org.
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