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“People will come to, hopefully, trust [the sport] again and have confidence in it,” said Arthur Hancock, who, along with his wife Staci, has been a leading voice for the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act. “We’re going to clean out the drugs and thugs.”

“This is a monumental step forward that will help secure the future of Thoroughbred racing in the United States,” said Dave O’Rourke, President & CEO of the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA). “For the first time, the sport will have a unified set of national safety and integrity standards to replace an outdated system that relied on patchwork regulation. The HISA will achieve the type of reforms long supported and advanced by NYRA, including a national approach to medication control and the strongest anti-doping authority the sport has ever seen.”

Industry Leaders Respond to HISA Passage:
Drew Fleming, President and CEO of Breeders’ Cup
“This marks the single most significant safety and integrity development in the history of Thoroughbred racing.

NOTE: These statements while true for U.S racing, had been implemented in many other racing jurisdictions like Europe and Hong Kong for decades.
It’s certainly about time it happened in the States!