‘Outrageous’ decision to allow sedative before competition
THE decision to allow reining horses to compete on a sedative is “as outrageous as it is wrong”.
The National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) in the US has approved changes to its welfare and medications policy to allow romifidine to be given to horses 30 minutes before competing. The drug is intended to be a “sedative to facilitate handling, examination and treatment, and as a premedication agent prior to general anaesthesia”.
