The last few weeks have been an important time in the history of Thoroughbred racing, with the announcement in New York of the NTRA Safety and Integrity Alliance. As both the executive chair of the NTRA and the president of Turfway Park, I often find myself viewing the Alliance from two distinctly different points of view. From the broad perspective of my role with the NTRA, I am exceedingly gratified that so many subsets of our diverse industry were able to put individual issues aside and collaborate for the good of all. These industry groups, which importantly included fans, were not just unified in their approval of the Alliance and their willingness to embrace changes that were, first and foremost, the right thing to do on behalf of our equine and human athletes. They also were instrumental in developing virtually every component and concept contained in the Alliance's 21 pages of reforms.
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