Michael Beychok: Here's why I'm giving up on horse racing

The Horse Integrity and Safety Authority law was passed by Congress in 2020 to create a new national drug-testing agency to discourage trainers from using illegal drugs. The new authority is scheduled to go into effect in July, but lawsuits from states challenging its constitutionality and difficulty in finding a single national testing agency makes implementation of HISA a long shot. Baffert is banned from entering horses in New York or Kentucky, despite having multiple drug positives on his horses over the past two years. He is still winning races in California. Horseplayers contribute the majority of money to the purses people like Baddert win with their horses.