CHRB Releases Annual Report: Fatalities Down 52 Percent Over Last Three Years

The California Horse Racing Board released its annual report on Tuesday, covering the fiscal year revenue of 2021-2022 and the California horse racing through the calendar year of 2022.

CHRB chair Dr. Gregory Ferraro lauded the efforts of the executive director Scott Chaney and deputy executive director Cynthia Alameda for their cooperation with the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority on racetrack safety rules: “The result has been federal regulations that reflect, in large part, that which is already in place here in California.”

Ferraro also praised the CHRB’s efforts to improve equine safety and reduce catastrophic injuries on the racetrack.

Fifth Circuit Judges Deny Motions Related to Rewritten HISA Law

by Sue Finley and T. D. Thornton

 

The Fifth Circuit United States Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied a motion by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) Authority for that court to vacate its recent opinion that HISA is unconstitutional.

Back on Jan. 3, the HISA Authority had asked for the Fifth Circuit’s Nov. 18, 2022, anti-constitutionality order to be vacated based on a federal rewrite of the HISA law in December.

Also on Tuesday, separate motions for a rehearing of the case made by both the HISA Authority and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) were shot down by the same Fifth Circuit panel of judges.

 

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