University of Kentucky Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

The Racetrack Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) has afforded the University of Kentucky's Equine Analytical Chemistry Lab (EACL) and the University of Illinois Chicago's (UIC) Analytical Forensic Toxicology Laboratory additional time in their efforts to seek reaccreditation from the organization. News of the UIC Lab losing its RMTC accreditation broke in early September. The facility was initially issued a 60-day accreditation suspension period. According to RMTC executive director Michael Hardy, the RMTC's executive committee approved an additional 60-day extension to the laboratory's suspension "to provide them ample opportunity to fully...

A report issued by Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit (HIWU) and Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) into HIWU's investigation of the University of Kentucky Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory (UK-EACL) cites multiple failures on the part of the lab and the lab director, Dr. Scott Stanley, including "intentional misrepresentations" of positive tests as negative. In a press conference Tuesday, HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus said that HISA was "cooperating" with federal law enforcement, and that possible criminal charges could be leveled against Stanley for some of the alleged offences detailed in...