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Eric Mitchell shares his thoughts on the U.S. Trotting Association’s recent exit from the RMTC.
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Eric Mitchell, editorial director and editor-in-chief of The Blood-Horse, shares his thoughts on the U.S. Trotting Association’s recent exit from the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium.


The U.S. horse racing industry is yet again waving a big flag emblazoned with: “We cannot regulate ourselves.”

On the verge of significant progress toward uniform medication rules and a stronger penalty system, the rug keeps getting pulled out from underneath. The recent blind side came from the U.S. Trotting Association (USTA), which announced an immediate exit from the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) over proposed withdrawal times for clenbuterol and corticosteroids. 

“In effect, the proposals took the use of those therapeutics away from Standardbred horsemen while not at all impacting the ability of Thoroughbred horsemen to employ the medications,” stated USTA president Phil Langley in a Sept. 27 letter to the Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI)

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Eric Mitchell is a Editorial Director and Editor-in-Chief The Blood-Horse magazine.

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