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New Vocations, T.I.P Cancel 2020 Dressage And Combined Test Event, Championships

New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program has made the decision to cancel their 2020 dressage and combined test event that was slated to be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky., on October 3. The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) has followed suit, cancelling its Dressage and Combined Test Championships, which was scheduled to be held October 4.

“It was a difficult decision to cancel the October show, but we feel that the safety of our show team and exhibitors is the most important,” says Anna Ford, New Vocations Thoroughbred Program director. “It has been a struggle this year as all of our live fundraising events have been cancelled. However, we have some virtual events in the works that we hope to launch in the near future.”

Now in its sixth year, the New Vocations All-Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show raises much-needed funds to enable the program to rehabilitate, retrain, and rehome retiring Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses. The T.I.P. championships celebrate qualified Thoroughbreds in a variety of disciplines. Run concurrently, the shows typically host more than 400 Thoroughbreds at the Kentucky Horse Park each fall.

Sponsors for the New Vocations All-Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show will have the ability to shift their financial support to a virtual competition in late September. Details of this virtual event are forthcoming.

“T.I.P. continues to explore consolation competition options for early 2021,” says Kristin Werner, senior counsel for The Jockey Club and coordinator of T.I.P. “We look forward to the 2021 championships next fall.”

Horses qualified and declared by the August 3 deadline for the 2020 championships will be eligible to participate in the 2021 events. A list of those horses is available at tjctip.com/About/CSDH.

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New Zealand Thoroughbreds Now Required To Have ‘Accountable Person’ For Increased Traceability

In an effort to improve traceability of the Thoroughbred racing and breeding populations in New Zealand, the country has released new rules to ensure that retiring racehorses are placed in appropriate homes. To enforce this, all horses are now required to have an “accountable person” who is responsible for informing NZ Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) of the death, retirement from racing or breeding of a horse in their care. This person can be an owner, manager, trainer or other person responsible for the horse's care.

If the horse is to be retired, this accountable person must ensure that the horse is given or sold to a person with an adequate working knowledge of Thoroughbreds and must provide the NZTR with the new owner's contact details. NZTR has been following up with the owners of registered horses that are listed as inactive on its website.

Additionally, the window in which an owner is required to report a foal's birth has been shortened from 6 months to 30 days. This can be done electronically and there is no fee.

Guy Mitchell: Visually-impaired jockey claims first win at the age of 46

After twice being denied a licence in his teens, visually-impaired jockey Guy Mitchell claims his first win at the age of 46.

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HBPA ‘Never Consulted’ on New Version of Integrity Act

Six hours after an Aug. 31 press conference at which United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other proponents of a federal bill announced newly achieved compromise among industry stakeholders in crafting new anti-doping oversight for horse racing, Eric Hamelback, the CEO of the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA), told TDN that his organization is actually not on board with the plan.

Hamelback’s emailed clarification was in response to a request for comment from TDN that did not arrive in time to be included in the original version of this story.

Much of the context of Monday’s press conference at Keeneland to announce the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HSIA) bill that McConnell intends to file in September was based around the terms “compromise,” “consensus” and “bringing everybody together.” This was an especially salient point because two previous industry holdouts to the concept of federal legislation, Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI) and the NHBPA, were being billed as having now lent their support to the new version of the bill.

About two minutes before the conclusion of the press conference, U.S. Representative Andy Barr (R-KY), who co-chairs the Congressional Horse Caucus and has co-sponsored three previous versions of the Horseracing Integrity Act (2015, 2017, 2019) thanked CDI (which did have a representative at the event affirming support) for “joining the cause.” Barr then specifically praised trainer Dale Romans for working with his coalition, and he saluted the NHBPA for sharing an “influential voice in support of this legislation.”

Hamelback’s statement to TDN took umbrage with that characterization. It reads, in full:

“Today, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his plans to introduce legislation that purports to set national standards to promote fairness, transparency, and increased safety in Thoroughbred racing.

“Senator McConnell claims to have found compromise within the industry, yet no representative horsemen’s groups, horseplayers or veterinary leadership organizations seem to have been consulted in the collaboration. The National HBPA represents close to 30,000 owners and trainers who want nothing more than increased safety and integrity to secure the strength of the business and our industry.

“The greatest concern of the National HBPA is protecting the health and safety of horses. If Senator McConnell is serious about hearing from tens of thousands of real Kentuckians, as well as horsemen across the country, we stand ready to meet with him. We certainly hope he will meet with us since those pushing this bill have mischaracterized the industry and our views in the past.

“As CEO, I can tell you we were never consulted on the recently announced Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act. Contrary to an erroneous statement made by another elected official at today’s announcement, the HBPA was not made aware of any ‘compromise’ negotiations until a deal had already been reached, nor has the Board of the National HBPA even been asked for its support.

“Because the legislative text has not yet been released, the National HBPA will reserve final judgement, but we caution our elected leaders to not be misled by the wealthy few who continue to promote federal legislation in service to their own, private interests. Based on what we heard today, we are concerned these elite few continue to hold the reins.”

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