The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) in Lexington, Kentucky, recently announced the launch of HISA Horse In-Sight, a cutting-edge digital tool designed for regulatory veterinarians.
This innovative platform, integrated within the HISA Portal, combines a horse’s career and medical history to provide a unique and holistic view of its health and performance. HISA Horse In-Sight was developed to empower regulatory veterinarians to make informed, timely decisions with greater efficiency and accuracy, ultimately enhancing horse health and welfare across Thoroughbred racing.
“HISA Horse In-Sight represents a significant leap forward in how we approach equine care and safety in horseracing,” said HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus. “By providing regulatory veterinarians with an intuitive and data-rich tool, we’re empowering them to make more informed, timely decisions that directly impact the health and welfare of our horses. This is a clear demonstration of HISA’s ongoing commitment to leveraging innovation for the betterment of Thoroughbred racing and the protection of its athletes.”
HISA Horse In-Sight features an intuitive graph that visually captures a horse’s racing career, represented by high-speed furlongs over time. With an extensive array of data points presented in a user-friendly visual format, regulatory veterinarians can now access key information through a simple statistics box or explore a horse’s history in detail via the Horse History tab.
Key features of Horse in-Sight
Key features of this tool include:
- A comprehensive view of races, workouts, scratches and more, complete with result details and conditions
- Advanced filters enabling customized views by treatment type, injury outcome or veterinary list status
- The ability to compare multiple horses through the Race Day tab, offering valuable insights into intra-articular injections and injuries
- Dynamic time controls allowing regulatory veterinarians to explore a horse’s history across any timeline, with rolling totals of high-speed furlongs for precision insights
- Downloadable reports ideal for research, mortality reviews and other essential veterinary tasks
This platform builds on other recent innovations like HISA’s partnership with Palantir to create a data-enabled tool that helps stakeholders identify horses at risk for injury before racing, and MedEnt, HISA’s mobile app for recording medical treatments. HISA is excited to continue advancing the horseracing industry by providing regulatory veterinarians and other stakeholders with the tools they need to make informed decisions for equine safety and integrity.
About the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority
Subject to Federal Trade Commission oversight, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority is charged with recommending and implementing uniform safety and integrity rules in Thoroughbred racing. HISA is implementing, for the first time, a national, uniform set of rules applicable to every Thoroughbred racing participant and racetrack facility. HISA is comprised of two programs: the Racetrack Safety Program, which went into effect on July 1, 2022, and the Anti-Doping and Medication Control (ADMC) Program, which went into effect on May 22, 2023.
The Racetrack Safety Program includes operational safety rules and national racetrack accreditation standards that seek to enhance equine welfare and minimize equine and jockey injury. The Program expands veterinary oversight, imposes surface maintenance and testing requirements, enhances jockey safety, regulates riding crop use and implements voided claim rules, among other important measures.
The ADMC Program includes a centralized testing and results management process and applies uniform penalties for violations efficiently and consistently across the United States. These rules and enforcement mechanisms are administered by an independent agency, the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (HIWU), established by Drug Free Sport International (DFS). HIWU oversees testing, educates stakeholders on the Program, accredits laboratories, investigates potential ADMC violations and enforces the ADMC Program.
