RMTC Approves Multiple Violation Penalty Model Rule

The model rule represents a plan to provide appropriate penalties for violations of medication regulations.
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The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) board of directors has given final approval for a Multiple Violation Penalty (MVP) model rule and has forwarded it to the Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI) for consideration at its meeting in Saratoga on July 30-31, 2013.

The MVP model rule represents an industry-wide plan to provide appropriate penalties for serious or accumulated violations of medication regulations, and is another important step toward enacting a new comprehensive medication and testing regulatory system for North American racing.

The highlights of the model rule are:

  • It is a point-based system in which all medication violations will be assigned points.
  • Point values are based on the RCI Uniform Classification of Drugs (1-5) and Penalty Classification (A-D).
  • Violations involving the newly approved controlled therapeutic medications (medications suitable for horses in training, for which trace levels, which will not have any effect on race day, can be detected in post-race testing) will receive fewer points than those for the non-controlled or prohibited substances.
  • Trainers accumulating a predetermined number of points will be required to serve an additional mandatory suspension.
  • Mandatory suspensions can be incurred for as few as two medication violations depending on the category.
  • Suspensions resulting from the MVP system range from 30-360 days.
  • Violations in all jurisdictions will be combined and the MVP system requires stewards and commissions in respective jurisdictions to consider a trainer’s entire point record.
  • Licensees will have the ability to have points incurred in lesser therapeutic categories expunged from their record after defined durations.

The development of the MVP model rule emanated from 2011’s "International Summit on Race Day Medication, EIPH and the Racehorse," at which the industry’s penalty system was identified as a major concern. At the summit, the RMTC Penalties Subcommittee, led by vice chairman Alan Foreman, Esq., was tasked with developing a system to punish repeat violators of medication regulations. The subcommittee expanded its mandate to include the identification of therapeutic medications that now comprise the controlled therapeutic medications list, and laboratory enhancement and accreditation

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