New York Regulators Approve Racehorse Health-Related Rules

At a March 12, New York racing regulators passed several racehorse health regulations.
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At a March 12, New York racing regulators passed several racehorse health regulations, including one requiring the previous owner of a claimed horse to provide within 48 hours to the new owner a record of corticosteroid joint injections that were made within 30 days before the claiming race.

The board also approved a rule proposed last year regarding the use of extracorporeal shock wave therapy, radial pulse wave therapy, and similar treatments. Both Finger Lakes Racetrack, in Farmington, and the New York Racing Association supported the rule change. The rule states that such treatments can be performed only by licensed veterinarians who use devices and are done at locations previously approved by the Gaming Commission. Trainers will be required to notify the commission within one day of the use of such treatments.

The commission also amended a rule previously proposed in November 2013, but not yet adopted, involving a range of controlled therapeutic medications. Officials called the amendments substantive and technical, including the threshold for "unapproved drugs." The commission's pre-meeting agenda noted that the "proposal of per se threshold rules for Thoroughbred racing should be revised to omit the proposed zero (limit of detection) threshold for all "unapproved drugs capable of affecting race performance."

"At the heart of the national recommendations was the 'strict' regulation of all drugs capable of affecting a horse's bodily systems that were not among the 'approved' 24 drugs that had been identified by the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC)," the commission's agenda stated

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Tom Precious also writes for The Blood-Horse, sister magazine to The Horse.

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