by Steve May, Racing Commissioners International

Lexington, KY — Please be advised that the RCI Uniform Classification Guidelines for Foreign Substances and Recommended Penalties and Model Rule Update has been updated.

The most current version of this document is Version 8.00, which has a release date of December 2014.

Version 8.0 makes the following changes:

• Updated the Recommended Penalties Section for Ketoprofen to comply with the ARCI Controlled Therapeutic Medication Schedule.
• Assigned penalty recommendation for Alclofenac.
• Updated the penalty recommendation for Firocoxib to comply with the ARCI Controlled Therapeutic Medication Schedule.
• Added Aminorex to document to avoid confusion. Note this does not change ARCI policy since all Drug Enforcement Agency Schedule 1 substances are automatically a Class 1, Penalty A substance in the Uniform Classification Guidelines.
• Technical corrections and spelling errors were corrected for 10 other substances or areas of the document.

A complete list of the changes can be found in the Recent Document Revisions section of the document, which begins on Page 31.

The new version of the document will be available on the ARCI website.