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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.

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The guest seat is empty this week on the Friday Show, but not for lack of trying.

Given the controversy surrounding the decision by Churchill Downs Inc. to extend the company's private property ban on Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert – which began shortly after Medina Spirit failed a drug test following his first-place finish in the 2021 Kentucky Derby – we thought this would be a good opportunity to give Baffert a chance to tell his side of the story and for us to ask some questions that have lingered over the past few years.

We reached out to Baffert and his attorney, Clark Brewster, inviting the trainer to join us on the Friday Show – to no avail.

So we are saddled with an empty chair and a notebook full of questions for this week's Friday Show, in which Ray Paulick and news editor Chelsea Hackbarth discuss the Baffert case, one that's had more turns than a marathon on a bull ring and involves two outsized egos: Baffert and Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen. Baffert wants to protect his reputation and Carstanjen wants to protect his brand, the Kentucky Derby, which will be celebrating its 150th running in 2024, apparently with Baffert on the outside looking in.

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One of many traditions in horse racing is its resistance to change. Sometimes, however, change is necessary. For example, when COVID-19 hit in 2020 and racing in many jurisdictions was shut down, the process of taking entries changed when backstretch access was limited and gatherings of people inside of a building (i.e., a racing office) were discouraged or prohibited.

Helping facilitate that change was a digital product known as the Interactive Racing Office (IRO) that had recently been developed by InCompass Solutions, a technology company created by The Jockey Club in 2001.

The Interactive Racing Office helps horsemen and women manage their stables by storing vital health and racing and training information on horses, also permitting them to submit stall applications, stakes nominations, and place entries to the racing office.

Chris Dobbins, senior vice president of InCompass Solutions, joins Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills on the Friday Show to explain the benefits of this free service, along with another free product, EquiTAPS, designed for veterinarians and trainers to facilitate many of the new requirements to submit treatment records under the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority. For more information on both products, visit www.incompass-solutions.com.

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The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's Anti-Doping and Medication Control program has now been in effect for one month, meaning there is one set of rules and one agency administering those rules throughout the United States (with the exceptions of Texas, whose racing commission chose not to join HISA, and Louisiana and West Virginia, which are involved in litigation that has temporarily exempted them).

“As you can imagine, it's been a massive undertaking to bring all anti-doping testing under one entity, under one system,” said Lisa Lazarus, the CEO of HISA who joins Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills this week on the Friday Show. “I'm incredibly pleased with how it's gone from an operational standpoint.”

Lazarus cited the professionalism of the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit, which HISA has retained to administer the ADMC rules and enforcement. HIWU is part of Drug Free Sport International, which has anti-doping contracts with numerous amateur and professional sports, including the NCAA, NFL, NBA/WNBA, NASCAR, MLB, and NASCAR.

The ADMC program streamlines the process when adverse findings are detected in samples, said Lazarus, who also outlined how the agency's “atypical findings policy” is designed to prevent obvious contaminations from being prosecuted as doping violations.

Lazarus also provides updates on HISA's Racetrack Safety Program in this wide-ranging interview.

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