Training Injury Reporting Sought for Database

Officials with the Equine Injury Database are seeking support from owners and trainers to start voluntarily reporting injuries to Thoroughbreds during training hours. The Equine Injury Database (EID), now in its second year, already has about 19,500 reports, Mary Scollay-Ward, DVM, equine medical director for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, said Oct. 19. But the information
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Officials with the Equine Injury Database (EID) are seeking support from owners and trainers to start voluntarily reporting injuries to Thoroughbreds during training hours.

The EID, now in its second year, already has about 19,500 reports, Mary Scollay-Ward, DVM, equine medical director for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, said Oct. 19. But the information is for fatal and non-fatal injuries that occur during racing hours.

Scollay Ward provided an EID update during the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's first Safety and Integrity Alliance Professional Education Seminar presented by Keeneland and Pfizer Animal Health. Aftercare of retired racehorses and continuing education for trainers were among the topics.

Scollay Ward said the reporting of injuries during training hours is vital to the EID objective

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Tom LaMarra, a native of New Jersey and graduate of Rutgers University, has been news editor at The Blood-Horse since 1998. After graduation he worked at newspapers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania as an editor and reporter with a focus on municipal government and politics. He also worked at Daily Racing Form and Thoroughbred Times before joining The Blood-Horse. LaMarra, who has lived in Lexington since 1994, has won various writing awards and was recognized with the Old Hilltop Award for outstanding coverage of the horse racing industry. He likes to spend some of his spare time handicapping races.

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