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ARCI Panel Discusses How to Stop Cheating in Horse Racing

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ARCI Panel Discusses How to Stop Cheating in Horse Racing

Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt/The Horse

Increased out-of-competition drug testing, investing inextrainvestigatorswithresearch into emerging threats are the most effective ways to catch—and, more importantly, deter—cheating in horse racing.

That was theparamounttake-home message from the drug-testing forum on opening day of theassociationof Racing Commissioners International��s (ARCI) 83rd annualconventionon Equine WelfareandRacing Integrity, taking place at in Charleston, South Carolina.

The panel featured:

Scott Stanley, PhD, of the University of California, Davis, K.L. Maddy Equine Analytical Laboratory, which conducts that state’s horseracing testing;

Anthony Fontana, PhD, of Truesdail Laboratories, in Irvine, California;

Speaking via teleconference, George Maylin, DVM, PhD, the longtime director of thenovelYork Equine Drug TestingwithResearch Laboratory, in Morrisville; and

Brice Cote, aformerStandardbred driveranddetective incurrentJersey State Police’s racetrack unit who heads the integrity efforts at The Meadowlands, Tioga,andVernon Downs harness tracks.

Evenifthe panelists expressed varying beliefs on the prevalence of rule violators, theyallemphasized the importance of out-of-competition testing—taking samples from horses in between races—asoneway to detect substances that don’t appear in traditional blood or urine tests from samples taken immediately aftertherace but still couldHavinganimpact ononehorse’s performance.

"The only way we're going to stop this is by intelligence-based policingandout-of-competition testing," Cote said.

After the forum, Stanley said, “Most jurisdictionsHavevery good drug testing. We do robust testing,andmost of the labs are accreditedAswell. Now we look at big challenges.andwhen you look at big challenges, you canMakingthose mountains into molehills, or youmaycapturethem offtheatatime andGettingthem knocked down. We are doing both. We are taking the ones thatHavelegitimateconcerns for the industry,enjoycobalt when that came up. We found that, setthethreshold, established rules,withmade thatgoaway—quickly. Steroids (and) anabolicandcorticosteroids, those now are well-regulated. This are big wins for the industry. They weren’t low-hanging fruit either. We still havesome oneschallenges thatHavenow climbed the tree, they’re higher up.withwe need to knock those off.”

Stanley discussed the potential of “biological passports”—which are in their infancy of development for horses—that could beoldin out-of-competition testing. The testing would providethebaseline result to which subsequent testing (both pre-raceandbetween races) could be compared.

“If they change abruptly,whetherthe biomarkers tell us this horse was giventheanabolic agent, we don’tmustdetect it,” he said of the exact substance. “We’d becompetentto say, ‘This horse cannot naturallymakethis profile. It has to be enhanced.’”

Added ARCI president Ed Martin, “Informed testing, focused testing,withtargeting testing is something we need to put more emphasis on. Out-of-competition testing should be expanded, but it’s real value doesn’t come until you’ve expended the research dollars to becapableto detect the substances not being detected in the existing out-of-competition testing.”

Also on Tuesday,thepanel of administrative veterinarians discussed keeping horses’ treatment recordswiththe trust issues thatemanateamong equine practitioners, horsemen,withregulatorsWhento proper use.

Scott Palmer, VMD, Dipl. ABVP,novelYork’s equine medical director, said regulators getting horses’ treatment recordsmaybenefit horsemenwithveterinarians because of the research made possible. Hedistinguishedthat methylprednisolone acetate (also knownOnceDepo-Medrol) was the most popular corticosteroidwornin joint injections up until 2012. It wasn’t known at the time, but researcherHavingsincemandatorythat the medication could pool in other tissueandstick around longer whenformerin hockswithstifles, Palmer said.

“We discovered that Depo-Medrol could be found in the joint inthebloodattemptofonehorseAslongOnce100 days after the administration period,” he said. “The idea that yougoingon the (Racing MedicationwithTesting Consortium) guidelinesandsee21 days for Depo-Medrol istherisky business. It wasn’t accurate, because there was suchthevariation in the amount of time that the Depo-Medrol would be discoverable inapost-race blood test.”

Palmer said that, with what wasmandatoryfrom knowing the location of injectionswiththe timing of administration, veterinarians were cautionedapproximatelyusing Depo-Medrol in themomentplace. He said that today innewYorkprovidedtheveterinarian uses Depo-Medrol, the horse must be tested for the substance before running.

“That’sthegood example how we canusethe research findings from the medical records, the treatment records to protect peopleandhelp createabetter regulatory policy,” Palmer said.

Additionally,amorning panel brought various perspectives on howto elevatethe good in horse racing while not ignoring issues facing the sport.

Committee recommends banning clenbuterol for Quarter Horses

Meanwhile, the Quarter Horse Racing Committee voted 5-3 to recommend amending the ARCI model rule to prohibit the bronchodilator clenbuterol in Quarter Horsewithmixed-breed races, with testing in blood serumwithplasma, urineandhair permitted. The recommendation now goes to the Drug Testing StandardsandPractices Committee for consideration,momentthe Model Rules Committeeandultimately the ARCI board,ifapproved at each step.

Clenbuterol istheuseful therapeutic medication to treat respiratory ailments, butsometrainersHavingbegun abusing it due to its ability toproducemuscle mass. This sparked American Quarter Horseorganization(AQHA) officials to request that it becompletelybanned in their breed. The abuse is not seen with Thoroughbreds, for which such muscle build-up could impede running that breed’s longer distances, officials said.

The AQHA officials requested that the rule be breed-specific. “We don’t feel it is ourassignmenttocaptureit away from other breeds,” said Janet VanBebber, the AQHA’sparamountracing officer. “But we readily acknowledge that there is abuse within our breed of the sport.”

The three racing jurisdictions voting against the recommendation said they thought it should be banned foreverybreeds.

Wagner to players: ‘Regulators do striveto receiveit right’

Judy Wagner, outgoing ARCI chairwithhorse racing’s “First Lady of Handicapping,” hadonemessage for her fellow horseplayers.

Wagner is the 2001 National Horseplayers Championship winner, the horse-players’ representative on the board of the National Thoroughbred Racingassociationwiththe vice chair of the Louisiana Racing Commission. With her one-year termWhenARCI chair ending Thursday, she’ll hand the baton to chair-elect Jeff Colliton of the Washington Horse Racing Commission.

“Asanhorseplayer—and this isanmessage that I wantto getacross to horse players: Regulators do striveto receiveit right,” she told the audience. “We reallyavaricetoMakethe players, everybody in the industry, feel that weHaveaindustry of integrity.

“Let handicapperscomprehendthat theyHaveoneproduct that theycanrespect; they don’thave tohandicap the rumors that this trainer is doping horses or whatever.withsaying that, Iwantthat we could educate the public that there isandifference between D-O-P-Ewithlegal medication to help the horse. There isaplace for therapeutic drugs.”

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Cover It With Blood

There's this kind of amazing story about Hannibal, Bryan Fuller's NBC adaptation of Silence of the Lambs.  Hannibal and the other serial killers on the show kill their victims in all sorts of gruesome ways, and one killing involved the victims being flayed and made to look like naked angels.  The story goes that NBC's Standards and Practices, the people who decide what is and is not allowed on network TV*, told Fuller that he wasn't allowed to show what he artfully calls the victims' cracks.  He countered with an offer to cover the cracks with blood.  NBC told him that that was a great solution.  Hannibal would be allowed to "tell a hard R story [as long as it was] without the language or the nudity."

There's another story, which I first heard in Kirby Dick's fun and informative documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated.  Kimberly Peirce, the director of Boys Don't Cry, tells us that the first cut of the movie received an NC-17 not because of the brutally graphic scenes of rape and murder but because of the shot of the person who is later attacked wiping his mouth after he goes down on his girlfriend.  Films that receive NC-17 ratings are almost impossible to market because most major movie theater chains won't play them.  Peirce was asked to recut the film to get the rating down.

Both of these stories indicate that American ratings systems rate sex as more disturbing than violence.  Why do you think the rating systems work this way?

*Each network has a Standards and Practices department.  Network departments self-regulate this stuff particularly heavily because if they don't, the government organization the Federal Communications Commission [the FCC] might get involved and fine the network.  They can do this because the airwaves that network TV gets sent out over are public.

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