Equine safety board set up for NY racetracks
The New York Racing Association (NYRA) has ready an Equine Safety Review Board to review in addition to assess fatal equine racing in addition to preparation injuries at its 3 racetracks.
The board was amidst the telephone substitution recommendations laid forth yesteryear the New York Task Force on Racehorse Health in addition to Safety inwards its terminal written report issued on September 28.
“The mission of the Equine Safety Review Board is to practise an educational procedure that emphasizes the security of horses in addition to jockeys,” said Anthony Bonomo, Chairman of the Equine Safety Committee of the association’s Board of Directors.
“We volition role the information gleaned through this procedure to promote additional equine security measures intended to forestall fatal injuries inwards the future.”
NYRA Steward Braulio Baeza Jr is the chairman of the Equine Safety Review Board, which too includes Dr Anthony Verderosa, NYRA’s Chief Examining Veterinarian; Glen Kozak, NYRA’s Vice President of Facilities in addition to Racing Surfaces; in addition to Kenneth V. Handal, NYRA’s Acting General Counsel in addition to Chief Ethics Officer.
When hired, NYRA’s Equine Veterinary Medical Director volition too sit down on the board.
Outside veterinarian representatives are Dr Scott Palmer, a fellow member of the New York Task Force on Racehorse Health in addition to Safety in addition to independent practitioner; physician Brian Caserto, a pathologist at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine; in addition to physician W. Theodore Hill, Jockey Club Steward.
Representatives for the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association in addition to the New York State Gaming Commission are too on the board.
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