Lexington, KY
- The ARCI will be holding it’s eleventh “Town Hall” meeting this Friday,
June 17th, at Belmont Park at 10:30am in the Belmont Room on the second floor
of the facility.
Those interested in
participating should pre-register using this LINK
- https://racingintegrity.wufoo.com/forms/myh60h91xgreh5/
. There is no cost.
Following the
meeting at Belmont, one will be held for standardbred racing participants at
the Meadowlands on Saturday, June 18th at 1:00pm in The Gallery on the second
floor. (Registration link for the Meadowlands meeting: https://racingintegrity.wufoo.com/forms/qm1mr6m1ivv2kf/
)
The Meadowlands
meeting will be coming on the heels of the first standardbred only Town Hall
meeting being held Tuesday at Harrington Raceway and Casino in Harrington,
Delaware.
Last week a meeting
was held at Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colorado. A cross section of owners,
trainers, breeders, track management, veterinarians and regulators
participated. Concern was expressed about the image of horse racing and
the need to differentiate between overages of therapeutic medications and
actual instances of doping.
Common to all
meetings is a discussion about current options being discussed and put forward
by various groups to strengthen the policing of the sport. Assessing the
need for and various proposed options for a centralized rule making entity or
process is a major discussion point.
ARCI “Town
Hall/Focus Group” meetings have already been held at: Santa Anita, Gulfstream,
the Organization of Racing Investigators spring meeting, the Mid-Atlantic
Group’s March regional meeting, Keeneland, Lone Star Park, Remington Park,
Ocala, and Arapahoe Park.
Input received at
the meetings and through an online survey will be presented to major racing
industry leaders as part of an attempt by the ARCI to unify the racing industry
in a common path to ensure a strong and effective integrity effort for racing.
