The new Chair of the Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI), Commissioner Doug Moore of Washington State, called for racing industry unity and common sense reforms to the HISA anti-doping and medication control program as well as federal funding for HISA in his inaugural remarks at the ARCI annual meeting just concluded.

Longtime horse racing industry veteran Commissioner Doug Moore of the Washington State Horse Racing Commission is the new Chair of the Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI).

Drivers Anthony Napolitano and Matt Kakaley, the two-time defending dashwinning champion at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, continued to show a winning touch in the second preliminary round of Monday (March 11) afternoon’s all-Game Of Claims card. Both drivers got home first four times on the pacing-only program, two times each in both the seven $10,000 contests with a $17,500 base tag and the $7,500 events for horses valued today at $9,000, also with seven sections.

Standardbred Canada is reporting that Hall of Fame pacing mare Eternal Camnation passed away at the age of 27 at trainer and owner Jeff Miller’s farm in Haviland, Ohio, where she had been living since retiring from racing two decades ago.