"... industry leaders will meet next week under the threat of federal legislation introduced in early May to ban race-day medication and provide stiffer penalties for abuse. Perhaps more importantly, the bills would reopen debate on the law allowing interstate wagering on horse racing -- an advantage the sport has over other forms of gambling that few in the industry want to risk. The fight over anti-bleeding medications is the 'mother of all battles,' said Dan Metzger, president of the Lexington-based Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, which supports a race-day medication ban."

"When Kentucky Republican Rep. Ed Whitfield and New Mexico Democratic Sen. Tom Udall recently filed the Interstate Horseracing Improvement Act -- designed to eliminate drugs from horse racing -- Arthur and Staci Hancock of Stone Farm, George Strawbridge of Augustin Stables, and Roy and Gretchen Jackson of Lael Stables signed a letter of support for the legislation."

"Dogwood Stable’s annual vet bills can run as high as half a million dollars."