Track deaths trigger creation of new veterinary role

Twenty-one horses died at Aqueduct over a four-month catamenia inwards wintertime 2012, prompting a Health together with Safety study on racehorses.

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) has established the seat of equine veterinary medical manager next recent Equus caballus deaths on the inner rails at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The novel manager volition constitute the Mortality Review Board, every bit recommended inwards the New York Task Force on Racehorse Health together with Safety report issued belatedly concluding September. The manager volition likewise brand ongoing assessments to ameliorate the wellness together with security of horses competing at NYRA racetracks.

Additionally, the association has begun to carry all euthanized horses to the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell for consummate necropsies.

It said the actions were to address the recent catastrophic breakdowns at Aqueduct Racetrack. Four horses – El Macho (December 13, Race 1), Bomber Boy (January 6, Race 7), Wildcat’s Smile (January 6, Race 8) together with Pleasantfriday (January 10, Race 5) – were injured together with euthanized since racing began on the inner rails on Dec 12.

Racing on the inner rails at Aqueduct is scheduled at this fourth dimension to proceed until March 30, though an before motility to the main rails would live on considered, atmospheric condition permitting.

“NYRA is taking immediate steps to endeavor to forestall to a greater extent than catastrophic injuries from occurring,” said association chairman David Skorton. “We are establishing a novel position, equine veterinary medical director, to live on inwards accuse of the wellness together with security of horses at all NYRA tracks together with straight investigations into these unfortunate events.

“In improver to these immediate actions, nosotros volition presently live on making decisions on several specific operational issues inwards the involvement of equine wellness together with safety.”

Anthony Bonomo, chairman of the association’s Equine Health together with Safety Committee, said: “Addressing the occupation of breakdowns at NYRA is our showtime priority. We volition produce everything to protect the jockeys together with the horses.”

The association’s veterinary region volition study to the novel director, who volition live on based on-track at NYRA facilities.

Under newly established on-track measure operating procedures, consummate necropsies volition straightaway live on performed at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell past times a board-certified pathologist alongside medical records together with history from the equine veterinary medical manager together with NYRA care veterinarians.

These necropsy reports volition live on incorporated into a novel NYRA database that tracks all injuries together with mortalities occurring on NYRA tracks, together with volition comprise a part of the investigation of each fatality past times NYRA’s novel Mortality Review Board.

Association president together with master copy operating officeholder Ellen McClain said: “The engagement of the equine veterinary medical manager clears the agency to constitute a NYRA Mortality Review Board, i of the fundamental recommendations of the Task Force.

“These novel steps volition add together to a number of recommendations NYRA has implemented during the 3 months since the Task Force released its report.

“A major stride forrad is the evolution of electronic tape keeping. We are aggregating wet content, atmospheric condition information together with other maintenance information inwards a unmarried database. Working alongside manufacture experts, nosotros are developing the nation’s near sophisticated method of information collection, which volition ultimately enable evaluation of injuries inwards the context of rails conditions.”

 

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