Lisa Lazarus, CEO of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, is back on the Friday Show for another round of questions from Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills.
The last time Lazarus appeared, HISA's Anti-Doping and Medication Control program was just getting under way and the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit – HISA's testing and enforcement affiliate – had yet to issue any rulings or suspensions.
Now, with nearly two dozen alleged violations posted on the HIWU website, with five of them already resolved, Lazarus explains how those unresolved cases will move forward, and why some trainers received provisional suspensions while others haven't. She also talks about one of HISA's missteps – not enforcing the penalty clause against trainers for breezing horses within seven days of an intra-articular injection. While the injected horses were provisionally suspended for 30 days, a number of them slipped through the cracks and mistakenly were permitted to race.
One element of the federal law that created HISA that may not be widely understood is the statutory arm's length relationship between HISA and the enforcement agency, HIWU. This, Lazarus said, keeps HISA personnel – including her – from knowing which covered persons are about to be notified of alleged violations by HIWU, thus keeping anyone from HISA from potentially influencing whether or not a charge should be filed.
Watch this week's episode of The Friday Show below:
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