At its Thursday meeting, the California Horse Racing Board moved forward on recommendations from its Medication and Track Safety Committee.
The board approved a nearly $1-million a year safety program to be conducted by the J. D. Wheat Veterinary Orthopedic Research Laboratory and the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory in concert with the CHRB post-mortem program and Sue Stover, D.M.V., to look at equine welfare and injury prevention aimed at determining the reasons for equine deaths and injuries.
The commission also voted to increase withdrawal times to allow for more effective prerace veterinary examinations and voted to support the Association of Racing Commissioners International’s recent call to eliminate race-day medication within the next five years. Read More…
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