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MODEL REGULATORY STANDARDS UPDATED
Association of Racing Commissioners International
Release, Lexington, KY-- June 14, 2017-- The newest version of model rules approved by the Association of Racing Commissioners International is available at www.arci.com.
ARCI’s model rules provide the template for racing regulatory entities and the framework under which the sport has made significant gains toward uniform regulations among jurisdictions.
The standards were reviewed and modified at the ARCI’s equine welfare and racing integrity conference in April. The biggest changes involve tougher standards and protocol for
the official veterinarian’s list, which places restrictions on horses deemed unable to race because of illness, unsoundness or infirmity.
The model rules strengthen the provision where horses cannot race anywhere else if on
a vet’s list in one jurisdiction until they are released by that state’s official veterinarian, unless there is an unforeseen administrative issue in gaining the release. It also places a minimum of seven days that a horse scratched or excused from a race be on the list.
The updated model rules also specify that horses that haven’t raced in a year or longer, as well horses making their first career start at age 4 or
older, must work a half-mile in at least 52 seconds (220 yards in 13.3 seconds for Quarter Horses) and submit blood or another biological sample to test for any drugs or medications that might mask a physical problem before being allowed to compete.
Out-of-competition testing regulations and protocols were added for Standardbred racing to mirror those for Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing.
A separate policy governing the use of the bronchodilator Clenbuterol was approved for Quarter Horse racing. That recommended rule now makes any detection of Clenbuterol in a post-race sample taken from a quarter horse a violation. The policy also applies to all horses in a mixed breed contest if Quarter Horses participate. Any finding of Clenbuterol, in competition or out, will trigger six months on the veterinarian’s list under the revised model policy for Quarter Horses.
The ARCI also updated its Uniform Classification document based upon a periodic review done by the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium.
Complete set of ARCI model rules
http://arci.blob.core.windows.net/ webdocs/2017%2007%20Model_Rules_V8.0.pdf
Controlled therapeutic medications schedule here http://arci.blob.core.windows.net/ webdocs/2017_04_CTS_V4_0.pdf
Drug classifications and corresponding penalty
http://arci.blob.core.windows.net/webdocs/ Uniform%20Classification%20Guidelines%20 Version%2013-2.pdf
About ARCI: The Association of Racing Commissioners International is the umbrella organization of the official rule-making bodies for professional horse and greyhound racing in North America and parts of the Caribbean. The RCI sets standards for racing regulation, medication policy, drug-testing laboratories, totalizator systems, racetrack operation and security, including for off-track wagering entities. RCI’s members are the only independent entities recognized to license, enforce and adjudicate matters pertaining
to racing. While the RCI, a not-for-profit trade association, has no regulatory authority, its members individually possess regulatory authority within their jurisdictions and solely determine whether or not to adopt RCI recommendations and policies and rules.
Speedhorse Photo Archive Answer
The photo on page 183 shows Jumbo Pacific (Pacific Bailey-Jumbo Jewel TB, Shining) after his victory in the first ever running of the Heritage Place Futurity at Blue Ribbons Downs on Nov. 5, 1981. Prior to 1985, this race was contested as an allowance and was not considered a stakes event. Jumbo Pacific, a sorrel gelding bred by Guy Ray and Mildred E. Rutland and foaled in 1979 near Independence, Kansas, was owned by
Albert Hogoboom until 1981 when he was sold to Dan Urschel, who with wife Jolene were the owners of multiple Champions including World Champion Special Effort.
Rutland also bred Jumbo Pacific’s sire Pacific Bailey, a 4-time new track record setter with a Superior in racing and an AQHA Open Championship title. Pacific Bailey was the sire of more than $2 million, and his top earner was Jumbo Pacific.
Jumbo Pacific began his career on the track with a second in a futurity trial, but then went on to win 10 of his 16 starts at two. Racing until nine years of age, Jumbo Pacific made an impressive 69 starts, winning a total of 18 races, with two stakes wins in the Northeast Kansas Quarter Horse Association Futurity and in the Kansas Bred Futurity where he set a 350-yard new track record. He finished second eight times (once
in the Missouri QHA Show Me Futurity), and third nine times (once in the Garfield Downs Poor Boy Futurity). He finished his career with $235,002 in earnings, $216,001 of that amount earned his first year on the track.
Despite his accomplishments, not much is remembered about Jumbo Pacific since the gelding’s stellar 1981 race season was also the same year Urschel’s Special Effort became the first and only horse to ever win the Quarter Horse Triple Crown.
But, multiple stakes winner Jumbo Pacific was a mighty horse in his own right. He might not have been, however, because his breeder in 1963 offered to sell his sire Pacific Bailey for $400. Luckily for Rutland and Urschel, no one took the offer and Jumbo Pacific became the first ever Heritage Place Futurity winner.
This year’s $1,154,700 Grade 1 Heritage Place Futurity at Remington Park was won by Nymeria.
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