For Immediate Release
Del Mar, October 26, 2021 – With the new Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act having passed through US Congress last year, US racing industry leaders have continued to embrace sweeping reforms. The most recent of which has seen Kildare-based Equine MediRecord (EMR) provide its revolutionary anti-doping and horse welfare software to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar next month.
Equine MediRecord solves a previously unmet need by allowing proper, timely recording of all regulatory medicines and vaccinations records administered to horses
The agreement is the latest notch in the belt of a company which launched its system just three years ago but has already amassed an impressive list of clients including the Thoroughbred Owners of California, Irish Veterinary and Welfare Commission, Irish Harness Racing Association, Kentucky Thoroughbred Association and the Arabian Racing Organisation. EMR first provided their system to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in Keeneland, Kentucky last year. With the event moving jurisdiction this year, under the supervision of the California Horse Racing Board, and a different racetrack, Del Mar Racecourse in Southern California, EMR has developed a new system to comply with this year’s rules and regulations pertaining to equine welfare and anti-doping protocols.
The company sells and maintains a revolutionary software platform which allows for the full veterinary history of the horse to be recorded securely, ensuring the best possible horse welfare as well as aiding with crucial anti-doping procedures. The new system EMR has developed for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships will automatically inform trainers from across the world of the safety and integrity regulations that need to be followed and what documents need to be submitted through the system to allow horses to run in the Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar. The Breeders’ Cup has been a leader in adopting and creating stringent regulations to ensure the welfare and safety of the human and equine athletes competing at its event.
EMR already boasts a number of endorsements from key stakeholders in the US including the Executive Director of the California Horse Racing Board, Scott Chaney and Dr William Farmer, the Equine Medical Director of Churchill Downs. “The Equine MediRecord system is a major breakthrough in providing the latest and most comprehensive medical and testing records for all participants in this year’s World Championships,” said Dora Delgado, Breeders’ Cup Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Officer, “We are proud to partner with EMR again for this year’s Breeders Cup World Championships at Del Mar.”
Once records are entered into the system they cannot be altered, providing integrity and transparency for all concerned. With strict requirements in place for the competition at the Breeders’ Cup, such a tool is needed to ensure the integrity of the records while also allowing them to be digitally submitted to regulators like the California Horse Racing Board and Breeders’ Cup officials. This procedure also eliminates passing around paperwork to various partners who are following COVID-19 protocols.
Equine MediRecord CEO, Pierce Dargan said: “It was an amazing privilege to work with the Breeders’ Cup for the first time last year and we are of course extremely happy to work with them for the World Championships at Del Mar this year. Given it is in a different regulatory jurisdiction this year, California instead of Kentucky, changes had to be made to ensure it complied with the state rules. We believe our system has a role to play in the movement to help ensure that our children will be able to enjoy horse racing the way we have for generations – to be a part of that work is an honour and highly rewarding.”
The Breeders’ Cup has always been a leader when it comes to adopting best welfare and anti-doping protocols. With the sport and its integrity in the spotlight the Irish innovation is sure to be adopted by more top racing organisations who are looking to ensure best possible welfare and anti-doping practices for the horses in their care.
For more information about Equine MediRecord, see: https://www.equinemedirecord.com/
Contact: Pierce Dargan
Chief Executive Officer
Equine MediRecord
[email protected]
Contact: Dora J. Delgado
Executive Vice President, Chief Racing Officer
The Breeders Cup
[email protected]
About Equine MediRecord
Equine MediRecord (EMR) develops, sells and maintains the first software platform to be approved to replace the paper regulatory documentation that is required to be kept by horse farms to ensure equine welfare & anti-doping regulations are followed. The EMR platform has been approved by the relevant government departments and currently operates in Ireland, U.K. , France, Saudi Arabia and USA. EMR has amassed clients such as Arabian Racing Organisation, Kentucky Thoroughbred Association (KTA), Thoroughbred Owners of California, Breeders Cup World Championships, Maryland 5 Star, Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia and 1S/T Racing for American Classic Preakness Stakes and Pegasus World Cup. EMR secured an 8 figure investment from Merit Holdings and joined their Business Infusions Group in 2022.
About The Breeders Cup
Forty years ago the visionary John Gaines hatched a plan. His idea was to create a year-end culminating championship for horse racing. An event where horses from across the world could meet to settle the age old question, “who’s the best?”. An event that celebrated the best of the sport, put it on a national platform and helped to build the market for racing and breeding. His vision? The Breeders’ Cup World Championships.
