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The 2023 Claiming Crown will be staged for the first time since 2011 at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans on Saturday Dec. 2

Horse racing’s new antidoping and medication control program has stumbled out of the starting gate. Its been delayed multiple times for nearly a year amid lawsuits by those opposing the

A federal judge has ruled that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act – as amended by Congress last December – is constitutional.

They expect the Horseracing Integrity & Safety Act (HISA) to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court — and they also believe America’s highest court will strike down the legislation as unconstitutional.

Horse-racing constituents applauded the Senators and Congressmen for strongly expressing their concerns to the FTC.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry will be the keynote speaker at the National HBPA’s annual conference March 6-10

An updated version of a horse racing law, which was recently declared unconstitutional, has been tucked into the 4,155-page omnibus bill.

“This ‘quick fix’ does not address the multiple issues that have and continue to be raised by horsemen across the country,” Moss said.

Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission Chair Joe Lucas applauded the disapproval of proposed drug-testing rules established by the new governing body for horse racing that had been set to go into effect Jan. 1.

Paulick Report publisher Ray Paulick comments that the federal probe into racehorse doping is one of the sporting world's biggest scandals ever uncovered.