A committee that advises the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KRHC) on its breeders' incentive program met again Jan. 25 and approved three additional recommendations for ways in which the program should be changed.

During the meeting, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders' Incentive Advisory Committee agreed to recommend to the commission to remove the current age limit on horses racing outside the Bluegrass from being able to receive incentive funds.

Presently, age 4 is the maximum for which Kentucky breeders' incentive funds can be earned by qualifying horses in allowance and maiden special weight races at out-of-state tracks. There is no age restriction on breeders' funds for horses that earn them in out-of-state graded stakes. The age restriction had been in place because horses bred in Kentucky in 2006 and prior were grandfathered into the breeders' incentive program. Horses that could have first been nominated to the program were foals of 2007 and would be 5-year-olds in 2012.

Also approved was a recommendation to reduce the breeders' award for a victory in a grade I race from $25,000 to $15,000