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The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) is a private self-regulatory organization that regulates the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States. It is empowered by the federal Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 to propose and enforce regulations related to safety and anti-doping aspects of the sport.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge from Republican-controlled states to a horse racing safety law that has led to national medication and anti-doping rules. The justices left in ...
New legislation introduced in Congress on Tuesday would dismantle the year-old national authority in charge of regulating safety and medication in horse racing and replace it with an organization ...
HISA was created in 2020 to establish a national standard of rules for the horse racing industry. Before it was established, the 38 states that have horse racing were free to have their own set of ...
Before the introduction in 1913 of what became popularly known—"with questionable taste" according to a correspondent writing in The Times—as the Jersey Act, [1] Thoroughbred horses in the United Kingdom were registered in the General Stud Book, the stud book for British and Irish Thoroughbreds.
The issue of legal and illegal drug use in horse racing is again under review by the U.S. Congress [17] with legislation pending before the House of Representatives and the Senate to create uniform pre-race drug rules and penalties applying in all racing states. The Interstate Horse Racing Improvement Act [18] is endorsed by some of the most ...
The Horse Protection Act of 1970 (HPA); (codified 15 U.S.C. §§ 1821–1831 [a]) is a United States federal law, under which the practice of soring is a crime punishable by both civil and criminal penalties, including fines and jail time.
Simulcast wagering on horse and dog races is also offered at Suffolk Downs and Raynham Park, which previously operated as racetracks. [1] Betting on horse and dog racing was legalized in 1934. [2] Suffolk Downs opened in 1935 and was the state's primary site for Thoroughbred racing until it held its last races in 2019. [3]