LEXINGTON, KY - The
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Racing Commissioners
International (ARCI) has formally announced the members of the committee
recently formed to work with individual commissions to complete the
implementation of the ARCI medication reforms.
The 12 members of
the ARCI Compliance Committee, as it will be officially known, were invited by
Chairman Mark Lamberth. Lamberth has assigned the committee members to three
working teams, with each team reviewing the regulatory policies of a set of
racing jurisdictions. The regulators assigned to those teams are as follows:
|
Team Member
|
Member Jurisdiction
|
Team Assigned
|
|
John T. Ward, Jr.
|
Kentucky Horse Racing Commission
|
Team
A
|
|
Jonathan Zachem
|
Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel
Wagering
|
Team
A
|
|
Judy Wagner
|
Louisiana State Racing
Commission
|
Team
A
|
|
Domenic DiCera
|
Illinois Racing Board
|
Team
A
|
|
Rick Baedeker
|
California Horse Racing Board
|
Team
B
|
|
Jeff Colliton
|
Washington State Horse Racing
Commission
|
Team
B
|
|
Tom DiPasquale
|
Minnesota Racing Commission
|
Team
B
|
|
Dr. Corinne Sweeney
|
Pennsylvania State Horse Racing
Commission
|
Team
B
|
|
Mike Hopkins
|
Maryland Racing Commission
|
Team
C
|
|
Duncan Patterson
|
Delaware Thoroughbred Racing
Commission
|
Team
C
|
|
Robert Williams
|
New York State Gaming Commission
|
Team
C
|
|
Frank Zanzuccki
|
New Jersey Racing Commission
|
Team
C
|
The committee teams
will begin by completing a thorough review of the medication policies in each
United States jurisdiction, and then will work state-by-state to advance the
ARCI medication reforms.
The jurisdictions
assigned to each team are as follows:
|
Team A
|
Team B
|
Team C
|
|
Arkansas
|
Arizona
|
Delaware
|
|
Colorado
|
California
|
Iowa
|
|
Florida
|
Idaho
|
Maine
|
|
Illinois
|
Minnesota
|
Maryland
|
|
Indiana
|
Montana
|
Massachusetts
|
|
Kentucky
|
Nevada
|
Michigan
|
|
Louisiana
|
New Mexico
|
Nebraska
|
|
Ohio
|
Oregon
|
New Jersey
|
|
Oklahoma
|
Pennsylvania
|
New York
|
|
Texas
|
Washington
|
North Dakota
|
|
Wyoming
|
South Dakota
|
|
|
|
Virginia
|
|
|
|
West Virginia
|
Lamberth stated that
the committee will begin work this week, and three teams will meet on a regular
basis. The committee work report to the ARCI Board of Directors during their
meeting in December.
