CHRB with new chair and change from 11/21/19 monthly meeting

[Where_sMyWhite]

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-rac…on-riding-crop

https://www.paulickreport.com/news/r…cation-policy/

Dr Greg Ferraro, former racetrack vet and former director of UC-Davis Schoold of Veterinary Medicine Center for Equine Health, is the new chair. Appointed to CHRB by Gov Newsom last year; to follow governor’s office making health and safety of horses the CHRB’s principal focus.

SA’s winter/spring meet opening 12/26 was authorized with stipulations; including no racing or training over potentially unsafe tracks in inclement weather, restrictions on racing/training after corticosteroid injections in fetlocks and minimum requirement of $10k minimum claiming level.

There is more and I paraphrased/cherry picked from the BH article.

Curious as to other’s thoughts/opinions on setting a minimum $10k claiming level. Is not allowing lower level claimers a good thing or a bad thing? I have my thoughts but interested in others’ opinions.

FWIW, the Paulick Report article has more detail on the stipulations for the SA winter/spring meet as well as more detail on other changes approved.

[Palm_Beach]

$10k is a lower level claimer. As someone pointed out on another thread in a galaxy far far away, even the open $5k is tough. The horses that can’t compete at $10k will just get shuffled to another less competitive track.

[findeight]

If <10k claimers are proven to be more likely to catastrophic breakdowns or asked to run hurt more often then >10k claimers or claimers in general break down more then non claimers on a percentage basis, might be good idea, Have my doubts it’s going to solve anything and does shuffle those horses and trainers off to lower level tracks in states with less scrutiny.

Only a nationally administered and enforced policy applicable to all tracks will do anything but put a band aid on the issue.