World racing boss urges uniformity over drugs in US

IFHA Chairman Louis Romanet

International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) chairman Louis Romanet has pledged his back upward for a uniform medication programme inwards the US.

Speaking later the Jockey Club’s 62nd Annual Round Table Conference inwards Saratoga Springs, New York, Romanet urged the implementation of the National Uniform Medication Program every bit speedily every bit possible past times solid soil racing commissions, too commend those that had already introduced the program.

“I offering my sincerest praise to the North American trainers who quest hold endorsed a stage out of race-day medication. The elimination of race 24-hour interval medication would farther convey the U.S. too Canada into harmonization amongst the residuum of the racing world. Most importantly, however, it volition reinforce the lineament too fairness of racing inwards the involvement of both the breed too the populace inwards North America. It is critical that nosotros keep global populace confidence inwards the integrity of racing too breeding,” Romanet said.

He too said it was encouraging to run across organisations, such every bit The Stronach Group, accept a leadership operate inwards medication reform. “Racetracks are a critical cistron inwards the reform process, too I encourage all racetrack operators to collectively piece of occupation together to apply agency seeking uniformity too to eliminate the direction of race-day medication.”

Romanet too applauded The Jockey Club too its chairman Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps, too president too principal operating officer, James Gagliano, too reiterate the IFHA’s potent endorsement of efforts to implement uniformity of rules, increment too heighten out of contest testing, too meliorate lab proficiency too standards, too penalties.

Phipps volition orbit a progress study on the measures when he is keynote speaker of the annual IFHA Conference in Paris inwards October. There, too at the International Conference of Racing Analysts too Veterinarians, Romanet would encourage participants “to examine many areas of harmonization too reform – namely increased lab proficiency standards too out of contest testing”.

“It remains critical that all racing stakeholders, both inwards North America too throughout the world, deed frontward amongst medication reform to ensure the integrity, welfare, too fairness of our bang-up sport.”

 

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