Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Louisiana gets ball rolling on stricter medication rules By Matt Hegarty

The Louisiana Racing Commission has formally begun a process to adopt a set of new medication rules that are being supported by a number of national racing organizations as a way to align the country’s racing jurisdictions.
Last week, the commission approved a “notice to adopt” the rules, which provide for the regulated use of 26 therapeutic medications but ban all other drugs. The notice could lead to the adoption of the rules as early as six months from now, according to the commission’s executive director, Charles Gardiner.
“This sets the administrative process in motion,” Gardiner said.
Louisiana has been considered a longshot by many of the groups leading the effort to get the uniform rules adopted in the U.S.’s 38 individual racing jurisdictions. The state has some of the most liberal medication policies in the U.S., and horsemen in the state, both Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse, have not been openly supportive of the uniform-rules effort.
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