The constitutionality of HISA may be headed to the Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit once again sided with the national HBPA.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to revisit legal challenges to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA), issuing a grant, vacate, and remand (GVR) ruling that returns the cases to the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Circuit Courts of Appeals. The high court instructed the appellate courts to reconsider their rulings in light […]
Colonial Downs will for the first time host a Claiming Crown Preview day on Aug. 21 featuring eight races run under starter allowance conditions.
Colonial Downs will host an August day of racing in which the races are automatic qualifying races for November’s Claiming Crown.
The horseracing industry must oppose a Florida “decoupling” proposal to sever the racing-gaming connection, says HBPA chief Eric Hamelback.
Damon Thayer — who championed racing during his tenure in the Kentucky General Assembly — will be the keynote speaker at the National HBPA Conference
For the second time, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled HISA unconstitutional, this time because of its enforcement mechanism.
The National HBPA today called on HISA to adopt drug testing threshold levels below which no positive is called.
The National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA) will hold its annual conference July 23-26 at Iowa’s Prairie Meadows.
New legislation set to be introduced in Congress will repeal HISA and replace it with an interstate compact governed by state racing commissions.