Figgy

The National Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association (HBPA) filed a Petition for Rulemaking under the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) on Monday, requesting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create no-effect thresholds. A no-effect threshold, also known as a no-effect screening limit or no-effect cutoff, is a laboratory testing detection level below which no owner or trainer will be punished for innocent and pharmacologically irrelevant concentrations of foreign substances that have no effect on a horse, according to the HBPA. Under the petition, the no-effect thresholds would be required...

Trainer Rusty Arnold has been suspended seven days and fined $1,000 after the 2-year-old filly he trains, Figgy (Candy Ride {Arg}), tested positive for a metabolite of Tramadol. "I received notification and today am accepting the penalties for a horse in my care testing for a controlled substance under current HISA/HIWU regulations," said Arnold in a letter circulated by the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association. "To be clear," continues Arnold, "I have no issue that I have a positive post-race test. The problem is why it is a positive....