The states subsidize racing to a substantial degree.
Now is the time to move forward and clean it up.
I fully support this legislation and its attachment of the condition of drug-free horse racing to the existing Interstat...
I know my home state very well--$50 million that goes into the purses.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth puts on its boots.
What we're trying to do is set a national standard and then put it back on the racing commissions.
I think if we start with those principles of this Racing Improvement Act that we've got here--banning race-day meds, thr...
I just don't buy the resource side of this when you have $50 million in subsidies.
But clearly, most of your regulators, are they not appointed by the Governor?
It takes scores of rule violations before a trainer gets a 10-year suspension.
Should trainers who drug horses with oral pain peptides be permanently banned from racing?