Jockey Club traceability initiative

It was the Christmas present the horses involved didn't deserve, and one that horse racing didn't need. Last month, the Kentucky Humane Society's Equine CARE program rescued 13 horses from a Franklin County farm, including War Envoy, a former stallion and Royal Ascot winner. The news soared around social media and made it onto international news pages Christmas week. "Former Irish-trained one-time champion racehorse found 'starving in a cold mud pen waiting to die' in the US," wrote The Irish News. "Ex-Aidan O'Brien Royal Ascot winner rescued in US from...

The Jockey Club's traceability initiative, which was announced at the 2023 Round Table Conference, continues to progress. The initial phase began with email prompts to racetracks and sales companies with digital certificates of horses that have had no Interactive Registration (IR) activity and no Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) number in the past two years. Beginning this week, The Jockey Club Registry will send an email to individuals listed as the certificate manager of a horse that has had no IR activity and no T.I.P. number in the past two years....