Kenneth F. Lowe, Jr., the colorful and sometimes controversial chairman of the West Virginia Racing Commission (WVRC), died suddenly earlier this week. His passing was first reported Sept. 4 in a remembrance editorial in the Journal-News of Martinsburg, West Virginia.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority is accepting applications for its Board of Directors, Racetrack Safety Standing Committee and Anti-Doping and Medication Control Standing Committee. The board and standing committees play a critical role in developing, implementing and enforcing...
Eight days after turf racing was halted at Parx amid pressure from horsemen and HISA, HISA officials released their evaluation of the turf surface, saying that the holes had been filled, but the surface was noticeably dry.
This letter originally appeared on the Walking L Companies website and is republished in the TDN unedited and with permission.I believe that we are all involved in whichever corner of the Thoroughbred Racing Industry we each occupy because of our love first and foremost for the HORSES and that we...
On Wednesday, Aug. 28 it was reported that HISA and the local horsemen's group pressured Parx management to close down its turf course. Now the racetrack is planning to put the surface through a series of tests, according to a statement issued by HISA on Thursday.
Just last week, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) Authority released its latest safety figures, showing a four-quarter consecutive decline in equine fatalities. Indeed, in the second quarter of this year, tracks operating under HISA reported 0.76 racing-related equine fatalities per...
A federal judge in Oklahoma on Thursday denied a request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that eight licensed Remington Park horsepeople wanted put in place to keep the Horseracing and Safety Integrity Act (HISA) from being enforced in that state.
Comments made at last weekend's National HBPA Conference at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa, may have contained hints about the next direction of multiple legal disputes concerning the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act.
The problematic, $10-million turf course that was installed at Churchill Downs prior to the 2022 spring season will be getting another maintenance break that will mean no grass racing in Louisville for the upcoming Sept.
Yonkers and Monticello are two population centers in New York State.If you obey the speed limit laws, you can traverse the ninety miles between their two...
As reported by Michael Guerin for the NZ Herald, a crippling interest bill is threatening to cut into the future of northern harness racing as the code in the...
Bangor, Maine ... Horse racing along Maine's northern circuit returns to the Bangor State Fair this week as the 175-year-old agricultural exhibition will...
The stewards at Charles Town Races on Wednesday issued a ruling that will not impose penalties against the licensure of trainer Justin Nixon after deeming that a “trace level” of a cocaine metabolite detected in a winning first-time starter he trained in March was the result of “inadvertent...
A Monday order out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit shot down a request for a rarely granted “en banc” procedure that the Horseracing and Safety Integrity Act (HISA) Authority and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had asked for last month.
The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (HIWU) has granted a temporary stay of enforcement to connections in six pending total carbon dioxide (TCO2) cases, all of which are out of Pennsylvania.In total, 11 of the 14 pending and resolved TCO2-related cases reported since the advent of the Horseracing...
SAPPORO, Japan — 'Be connected, stride together' runs the strapline for the 40th Asian Racing Conference.There are of course representatives from beyond the Asian nations present in Sapporo and it did not take long for the Asian Racing Federation (ARF) chairman Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges to remind...
Forty-five days after the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declared that the Horseracing and Safety Integrity Act (HISA) is unconstitutional because its enforcement provisions violate the private non-delegation doctrine, both the HISA Authority and the Federal Trade Commission...
Though officials within the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) Authority have already made huge strides forward in terms of across-the-board equine safety standards, one ongoing concern among stakeholders is that when it comes to the enforcement arm of the national program, an inflexibility...
A federal judge cancelled a July 31 hearing in a lawsuit filed last week by eight Oklahoma horsemen who are trying to get the Horseracing and Safety Integrity Act (HISA) declared unconstitutional after learning that seven of the same plaintiffs last year filed a substantially similar complaint but...
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Fifty-two years ago this month, there was no better harness racing horse in the sport than Albatross. The aptly named pacer towered above all others that...
Harness racing trainer Richard Moreau has been suspended indefinitely after North America Cup show finisher Funtime Bayama tested positive for darbepoetin...
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