Keeneland Gives Int=L Buyers Option to Test for Bha Drug
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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here KEENELAND GIVES INT=L BUYERS OPTION SARATOGA PREVIEW TO TEST FOR BHA DRUG STANDARDS by Mike Kane by T.D. Thornton When Saratoga Race Course reopened in 1946 after In an effort to provide steroid-free assurance and as a being closed for three years during World War II, means to help international buyers meet new British residents of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. were giddy. Many Horse Racing Authority (BHA) testing guidelines for had feared the sport, horses they plan on exporting, Keeneland Association, which had been so Inc., announced a new sales important to the little condition on Wednesday. upstate city since the At the time of sale, the buyer 1860s, was gone for will check the appropriate box for good. BHA testing on the On Monday, Aug 5, Acknowledgement of Purchase the Saratogian and Security Agreement for newspaper carried the horses which will be exported to front-page banner Great Britain within 60 days of headline that told the purchase. Keeneland will then story: "Crowds Jam arrange for a blood sample to be City for Return of Heading for home at the Spa taken by a veterinarian Racing.@ The first day Sherackatthetrack immediately after purchase and of that 24-day season prior to the horse leaving the drew an opening-day record crowd of 15,168. sales grounds. The sample will be Historic Saratoga Race Course, America=s oldest and Bill Thomason | sent to a laboratory in England most revered track, opens for business once again on keeneland.com selected by the BHA. If the BHA Friday, launching the 147th summer of Thoroughbred post-sale test is positive for racing in the city. The 10-race program, featuring the anabolic steroids, the buyer has the right, within 24 GII Lake George S. and the GIII Schuylerville S., is the hours of notification, to rescind the sale and return the starting point of a 40-day season that runs through horse to the consignor. Sept. 7. During the 70th consecutive Saratoga season BHA anti-doping guidelines that went into effect Mar. since WWII, the New York Racing Association will 2 mandate that Aa horse must not be administered an present what is generally considered the highest-caliber anabolic steroid at any point in its life@ under penalty of meet in the nation, highlighted by 69 stakes worth a being ineligible to start in Britain for 14 months. record $18.7 million in purses. Cont. p4 In addition, United States-based Thoroughbreds exported into Britain to race must now have registration ANOTHER PHILADELPHIA FLYER? paperwork turned in 14 days prior to arrival and must be by Steve Sherack in the country and available for testing 10 business days After pulling off a monumental upset at 36-1 with in advance of their intended race (permanent imports Poseidon=s Warrior (Speightstown) in the 2012 have a separate, although similar, set of guidelines). The GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt H., Thomas McGrath=s Swilcan new Keeneland testing option will help speed up that Stable returns to the Spa with another intriguing Parx process. invader for Friday=s opening day co-feature. ABy implementing this new condition of sale, which Little Miss Miss (Mineshaft), a five-length debut addresses the BHA=s enhanced policy, our British and winner in a scratched-down field of three in Bensalem European buyers will have added confidence that horses June 21 (video), will break from post two in the bought here can train and race in Great Britain,@ GIII Schuylerville S. Trained by Butch Reid, the $30,000 Keeneland President and Chief Executive Officer Bill FTMSEP yearling purchase is a 30-1 shot on the Thomason said. morning line. Maria Remedio will ride. Keeneland--like the Fasig-Tipton, Ocala Breeders= AWe=re all very excited to get up there again for Sales, and Barretts Equine Limited sales companies-- another stakes race,@ McGrath commented. AI just already abides by a 2008 Sales Integrity Program remember Butch tackling me [after the Vanderbilt]. And, guideline that prohibits exogenous anabolics in horses if you=ve ever seen the size of him, he=s built like a 45 days prior to an auction. football player. My glasses were all twisted on my face Keeneland currently offers buyers the right to order a and I was a little dizzy getting down to the winner=s $500 blood test on any horse purchased at its sales to circle!@ ensure that the horse meets the 45-day steroid-free McGrath concluded with a laugh, ASo, hopefully he rule. If the horse tests positive, the buyer has the right doesn=t repeat that if we=re lucky enough to do it again to have the sale rescinded. 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AI=m not a scientist, so I don=t know how BHA-related condition of sale Amirrors@ the U.S. version far back they can go to test blood. They will be of anabolic steroid testing, but there is actually a subtle developing into hair testing, which will definitely be able nuance: The U.S. testing only guarantees that a horse is to test the lifetime of the horse.@ steroid-free for 45 days. The BHA standard is supposed In its press release announcing the new testing to ascertain that a horse has been steroid-free for its initiative, Keeneland said no horse from its sales has entire life. ever tested positive based on the 45-day rule. Russell When the preliminary BHA guidelines were first said he did not have information immediately available announced in 2014, hair sampling was defined as the to confirm how many horses actually undergo the U.S. testing standard, because hair sampling is considered version of the elective testing. more exacting than blood sampling in determining the ABHA rules of racing do not seek to regulate any lifetime presence of substances. international racing or breeding industries,@ BHA Director But in March 2015, the BHA announced that blood of Raceday Operations and Regulation Jamie Stier said. testing would be used while hair testing got phased in. AHowever, we welcome the proactive, constructive and Then, on June 4, BHA chief executive Nick Rust told collaborative approach taken by Keeneland to offer this delegates at the Pan American Racing Conference in extra service to their customers who are intending to New York that, AWe don=t have enough confidence yet purchase a horse to enter the British market.@ in hair testingYas science improves, we would expect to When asked if he got a sense from international introduce that at a point in the future. At the moment, buyers and sellers that there was a desire for the U.S. we=re relying on the blood samples.@ to move toward Britain=s zero-tolerance policy on So Keeneland exports to Britain will have blood drawn steroids, Russell said, AI haven=t had any discussions like for the time being, rather than having hair clipped for that with any European buyers.@ Russell added: AThe the more accurate hair tests that are envisioned as the conditions of sale are always very flexible and fluid. As eventual British standard. the market changes, so do the conditions of sale. Geoffrey Russell, Keeneland=s Director of Sales, Keeneland=s attitude is that we wish to remain the affirmed that no matter what time standard or testing global marketplace, so we have to adapt.@ method the BHA uses, buyers will have the right to have their sales rescinded if the test comes up positive for steroids.