Regulations limit both the intensity and frequency of whip use during horse racing. Nevertheless, compliance is currently ...

“We’re planting that proverbial tree for the next generation to sit in the shade.” That’s how Marc Guilfoil described why the work he does as HISA’s Director of Stewarding and State Racing Commission ...

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The British Horseracing Authority declined to comment Dec. 19 on a report suggesting the sport's Horse Welfare Board will make a series of radical suggestions for changes to the whip rules in the new ...

Christophe Soumillon collected the jockey's share of a $7.2 million first prize for winning the 2019 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (G1) aboard Thunder Snow in a photo-finish thriller ...

THE WELFARE OF THE HORSE IN THE HORSE RACING INDUSTRY IN A CENTURY. >> THIS IS A UNIFORM NATIONAL STANDARD FOR DRUG TESTING ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES UNDER THE U.S. ANTI-DOPING AGENCY THAT CAUGHT ...

July 12 (Reuters) - The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) published a list of recommendations on Tuesday relating to the use of the whip, saying jockeys must only use it in a backhand position and ...

Formal Dude was two lengths behind the leaders and a quarter-mile from the finish. It was time to make a move. Jockey Tiago Pereira raised his riding crop in his right hand and struck the ...

DEL MAR — Thoroughbred racing and its regulators have enacted rule changes in recent years to limit jockeys’ use of whips, capping the number, timing and ferocity of strikes in an apparently ...