DEL MAR — Thoroughbred racing and its regulators have enacted rule changes in recent years to limit jockeys’ use of whips, capping the number, timing and ferocity of strikes in an apparently ...

“We’re planting that proverbial tree for the next generation to sit in the shade.” That’s how Marc Guilfoil described why the work he does as HISA’s Director of Stewarding and State Racing Commission ...

An amateur jockey who exceeded the whip stroke limit by five has been handed a 20 day ban and his horse disqualified. Sam Burton, a seven pound claiming amateur who made his rules debut ten seasons ...

Jockeys in Britain will be allowed to use the whip only in the backhand position, and disqualification will be introduced as the ultimate sanction for whip overuse. The changes are expected to come ...