The Thoroughbred racing community in Florida has been something of a whipping boy lately.
Undoubtedly the Sunshine State has its problems, including a weak state pari-mutuel regulatory agency overseeing an anarchic racing dates system that has allowed two racetracks less than a dozen miles apart to run overlapping live meetings for a year. But a couple of Racing Medication & Testing Consortium executives have been piling on recently by calling out Florida for being one of three major racing states that have taken no action toward adopting the Uniform National Medication Reforms. The other states are Louisiana and Oklahoma.
Kent Stirling, executive director of the Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, said the characterization of Florida as a rebellious holdout is a rush to judgment.
He said draft language has been prepared that would add the uniform medication model rules to an agriculture bill but stressed that how quickly the rules become law is completely in the hands of the Florida legislature. Stirling also has some concerns about what will ultimately be adopted.
Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/wgoh/archive/2014/04/08/uniformity-s-minefield-by-eric-mitchell.aspx#ixzz2yQRnQIPm
Undoubtedly the Sunshine State has its problems, including a weak state pari-mutuel regulatory agency overseeing an anarchic racing dates system that has allowed two racetracks less than a dozen miles apart to run overlapping live meetings for a year. But a couple of Racing Medication & Testing Consortium executives have been piling on recently by calling out Florida for being one of three major racing states that have taken no action toward adopting the Uniform National Medication Reforms. The other states are Louisiana and Oklahoma.
Kent Stirling, executive director of the Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, said the characterization of Florida as a rebellious holdout is a rush to judgment.
He said draft language has been prepared that would add the uniform medication model rules to an agriculture bill but stressed that how quickly the rules become law is completely in the hands of the Florida legislature. Stirling also has some concerns about what will ultimately be adopted.
Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/wgoh/archive/2014/04/08/uniformity-s-minefield-by-eric-mitchell.aspx#ixzz2yQRnQIPm
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