Regulation of Steroids to be Recommended

Members of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) are expected to recommend regulation of anabolic steroids in racehorses, but the timetable for the regulations remains up in the air.

RMTC officials earlier in the year said

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Members of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) are expected to recommend regulation of anabolic steroids in racehorses, but the timetable for the regulations remains up in the air.


RMTC officials earlier in the year said they hoped to have a policy by the end of this year.


There has been some division over the issue, in part because Federal Drug Administration-sanctioned anabolic steroids are widely used in racehorses and are listed as Class 4 therapeutic drugs. There is some support in the industry to have anabolic steroids reclassified to a Class 3 substance under Association of Racing Commissioners International guidelines, but it remains to be seen if that recommendation will be issued and regulators will embrace it.


The use of steroids in racehorses is regulated in other countries

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