Regulations limit both the intensity and frequency of whip use during horse racing. Nevertheless, compliance is currently ...

“We’re planting that proverbial tree for the next generation to sit in the shade.” That’s how Marc Guilfoil described why the work he does as HISA’s Director of Stewarding and State Racing Commission ...

British athlete Charlotte Dujardin was barred from the Paris Olympics for whipping a horse. The last Olympics, in Tokyo, also prompted widespread revulsion when a rider punched a horse. Activists say ...

DEL MAR — Thoroughbred racing and its regulators have enacted rule changes in recent years to limit jockeys’ use of whips, capping the number, timing and ferocity of strikes in an apparently ...