Breeders’ Cup Outlines Security and Integrity Measures

The welfare of the human and equine athletes competing within the Breeders’ Cup World Championships is the very best precedence of Breeders’ Cup Restricted. As a part of this dedication, the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar will probably be run in accordance with the business’s most complete security and integrity protocols, developed at the side of main specialists within the subject.  

The 2024 Breeders’ Cup World Championships will mark the second operating of the occasion beneath the complete jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Security Authority. Beneath HISA’s Anti-Doping and Remedy Management Program, Breeders’ Cup contributors are topic to out-of-competition prerace, and postrace testing administered by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit.  

Security and integrity measures will proceed to incorporate equine safety and 24-hour surveillance protocols, enhanced veterinary examination procedures, harm administration protocols, and racing floor monitoring, upkeep, and testing within the lead-up to the occasion.  

The Breeders’ Cup is as soon as once more mandating thorough screening measures for all World Championships contenders within the weeks main as much as the races. For the primary time this 12 months, the Breeders’ Cup has additionally developed and issued a brand new Breeders’ Cup Veterinary Information, which particulars examination procedures and necessities for all horses competing within the World Championships. The information and corresponding video collection cowl out-of-competition and prerace testing, the targets and scope of veterinary exams, examination schedules and areas, and examination elements and standards. 

Early Preparations: Out-of-Competitors Testing, Veterinary Coordination, and Racing Floor Oversight

The Breeders’ Cup veterinary workforce has held common coordination conferences with companions at Del Mar Thoroughbred Membership, HISA, HIWU, and the California Horse Racing Board since July to find out out-of-competition testing schedules and protocols for veterinary exams, harm administration, emergency preparedness, and diagnostic software implementation.  

An inventory of graded stakes winners, Breeders’ Cup Problem Sequence winners, and different attainable starters, was compiled and has been monitored on an ongoing foundation since July of this 12 months so HIWU might start out-of-competition testing for banned substances on potential contenders. This consists of collaborating with regulators in 5 nations exterior the USA to coordinate testing of potential rivals hailing from these jurisdictions. Out-of-competition testing will probably be ongoing via race day.

As well as, monitoring of the racing floor at Del Mar has been ongoing for months within the lead-up to the World Championships. Del Mar Thoroughbred Membership floor specialists observe superintendent Dennis Moore and turf course superintendent John Beggin have labored intently with Dr. Mick Peterson, director of the College of Kentucky Racetrack Security Program, all through their analysis and upkeep operations to make sure probably the most constant racing surfaces attainable at Del Mar. Moreover, TurfTrax software program has been employed to measure the situation of the turf observe. These outcomes are posted day by day for horsemen and the media.    

Security and Integrity Protocols: October By World Championships

Preliminary enhanced screening protocols performed by the Breeders’ Cup Veterinary Overview Panel started instantly following the final home Problem Sequence race Oct. 6. The overview workforce assessed the data of greater than 220 potential contenders, together with veterinary and therapy data, coaching and racing patterns, and bodily examinations of choose horses performed by regulatory veterinarians in related racing jurisdictions all over the world. In some instances, the usage of superior diagnostic instruments have been additionally required. 

An equine positron emission tomography scan machine on mortgage from the College of California, Davis will even be obtainable to veterinarians on-site at Del Mar.

Upon the shut of pre-entries Oct. 21, medical data for all home contenders have been requested from HISA and reviewed by the overview panel a second time. For worldwide contenders, the earlier 30 days of medical data have been requested and submitted for overview. Obligatory 24-hour surveillance for all runners started at 11:00 a.m. PT Oct. 29.

Moreover, each Breeders’ Cup runner is topic to:  

• Complete on-site veterinary exams, together with jog-up exams and the usage of diagnostic know-how as wanted, starting Oct. 23
• Extra bodily examinations on the willpower of the Breeders’ Cup veterinary workforce
• In-stall and on-track veterinary oversight throughout coaching and education 
• Obligatory jog-up exams earlier than coming into any racing floor at Del Mar beginning Oct. 25
• HISA-mandated pre-race veterinary examinations within the barn and veterinary monitoring of horses within the paddock and through warm-up on race day
• Intensive pre-race TCO2 testing, in addition to postrace testing of the primary 4 finishers together with different runners as designated by the stewards
• Commentary of all different finishers cooling out as they exit the racetrack to find out if any support or additional evaluation is required

Extra sources detailing Breeders’ Cup’s well being and security protocols for the 2024 World Championships might be discovered at www.BreedersCup.com/security.  

This press launch has been edited for content material and elegance by BloodHorse Employees.