{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Governor Steve Beshear will implement new regulations for the use of medications in standardbred and thoroughbred horses after the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing and Occupations voted 19-1 Monday against new regulations that ban secondary bleeding medications and regulates who can administer Lasix on race days. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted 7-5 in June to ban the use of Lasix, but legislators expressed reservations Monday about the ban, saying there were many in the horse industry against it.
