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When a horse trainer is suspended, the horses in that barn cannot breeze or race until each one is transferred to another licensed trainer and that transfer is registered with HISA — and if the suspension runs longer than 30…
A HIWU ruling against your horse’s trainer disqualifies the horse’s race result and forfeits the entire purse — and the standard sanction language goes further than the headline suggests, requiring “repayment or surrender (as applicable)” of money that has already…
HISA is horse racing’s federal safety regulator — the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, created by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 and supervised by the Federal Trade Commission. Its rules run at 41 racetracks in 19 states,…
You wouldn’t peg a 6’11”, 284-pound basketball superstar as the type to wake up at 4:30 in the morning just to muck out stalls and watch trotters run laps. But Nikola Jokić isn’t your average NBA legend. While most of…