RACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM

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RACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM

• Hallie Roach
• Communications Coordinator

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Our Organization and Our Work

• Mission and Structure of RMTC
• Uniform Model Rules
• Research and Testing

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The Mission of RMTC

• To develop, promote and coordinate, at the
  national level, policies, research and
  educational programs that seek to ensure the
  fairness and integrity of racing and the health
  and welfare of racehorses and participants, and
  to protect the interests of the racing public
• RMTC formed in 2002 as a 501 (c) (3) charitable
  organization

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RMTC Officers

• Executive Director Dr. Scot Waterman
• Chairman Dr. Bobby Lewis - AAEP
• Vice Chairman Chris Scherf - TRA
• Vice Chairman Alan Foreman - THA
• Secretary Dr. Rick Arthur - CHRB
• Treasurer Tom Charters -The Hambletonian
  Society
• CEO Dan Fick - The Jockey Club

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RMTC Standardbred Support
RMTC greatly appreciated the on-going volunteer
and financial support from the Standardbred
racing industry. - Dr. Scot Waterman

• Current Directors
• Tom Charters
• Moira Fanning
• Chip Hastings
• Alan Leavitt
• Eric Sharbaugh
• Brody Johnson

• Prior Directors
• Stan Bergstein
• John Cashman
• Joe Faraldo
• Phil Langley

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Other RMTC Directors

• Alex Waldrop NTRA
• Ed Martin RCI
• Dr. Richard Sams U of Florida
• Dr. Scot Stanley U of California-Davis
• Richard Mandella Hall of Fame trainer
• Frank Fabian TRPB SIS
• Dan Metzger TOBA
• Dr. Greg Scoggins MEC
• Donnie Richardson Churchill Downs Inc.
• Mike Hopkins Maryland Racing Commission

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RMTC Model of Operation

• Goals
• Uniform regulation
• Level playing field
• Welfare and safety of participants
• Implementation Strategy
• Review existing research
• New research
• Scientific Advisory Committees
• Consensus of directors

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Adoption of RMTC Uniform Model Rules Approved by
RCI
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Uniform Penalties

• Three-tiered grid system simplifies current RCI
  penalties
• Significantly increases penalties for illegal and
  prohibited performance-enhancing drugs
• Reduces penalties for therapeutic medication
  mistakes
• Redefines trainer responsibility
• Mitigating and aggravating circumstances
  checklist for stewards
• Added penalties for other culpable licensees
  veterinarians, owners and grooms
• Adopted as rule or policy in 25 states

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Withdrawal Time Projects

• 26-horse training stable including six
  Standardbreds at University of Florida for
  withdrawal times research for eight therapeutic
  medications and four anabolic steroids
• Analysis of resultant plasma and urine samples at
  Iowa State, New Bolton, Florida and UC-Davis labs
• Scheduled completion date is August or sooner
• RMTC withdrawal times website with 18
  jurisdictions and over 70 drugs posted for review

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Withdrawal Time Projects

• RMTC Website Database
• Withdrawal times posted for 18 jurisdictions and
  over 70 drugs
• Database is searchable by drug and by
  jurisdiction
• Over 2,000 unique users in first month of
  availability
• Help us add more if you can!

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Scot
Waterman
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Anabolic Steroids

• Model rule approved by RCI in April 2007
• Model rule contains scientific urinary thresholds
  for four anabolic steroids
• Plasma thresholds will be added by August
• AR, AZ, IN, PA, VA and WA have adopted model rule
  to begin regulation of anabolic steroids
• 14 other states now in adoption process
• RCI has called for all states to be uniformly
  regulating anabolic steroids by end of this year

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RMTC Research Program

• Three Research Categories
• Performance Enhancers
• Erythropoietin, Ethanol, Cone Snail Venom
• Therapeutics
• Procaine Penicillin, Clenbuterol, Adjunct Bleeder
  Meds
• Contaminants
• Morphine / Poppy Seed Contamination

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RMTC Research Program

• RMTC is also focused on developing tests for
  designer drugs
• Unknown acquisition and analysis
• RMTC works with sources and purchases products
  being marketed as performance enhancing
• Over a dozen vials and syringes have been
  analyzed over the past year
• Majority contain voodoo products and are of
  little concern
• In 2007, one unknown led to a federal
  investigation and prosecution of a race-day
  medication website

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Drug Testing Objectives

• Uniform Testing
• Standards for chain of custody, split and frozen
  samples
• Standard operating procedures and testing
  protocols
• Quality assurance and blind sampling
• Laboratory accreditation
• Future Considerations
• National industry-owned reference laboratory
• Potential for consolidation of 18 existing
  drug-testing laboratories

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RMTC Contact Us

• www.rmtcnet.com