CBS will air a phase on horse racing reform throughout its “60 Minutes” tv information program Nov. 12. It’s scheduled to broadcast Sunday together with two different present segments scheduled from 7-8 p.m. ET.

Correspondent Cecilia Vega will study the wiretaps that helped efficiently prosecute one of many greatest horse doping investigations in United States historical past. Lisa Lazarus, CEO of the Horseracing Integrity and Security Authority, additionally spoke with Vega “to debate the second of reckoning and the game’s future,” in keeping with a “60 Minutes” press launch.

A portion of the filming occurred way back to 5 months in the past. {A photograph} selling the story on the CBS web site reveals Vega conducting an interview whereas strolling by way of the Belmont Park grandstand.

Wiretaps proved instrumental within the convictions of greater than 30 people in each the Thoroughbred and Standardbred industries in a horse-doping scheme that resulted in arrests in March 2020. The federal government captured and trainers and veterinarians discussing the usage of prohibited medication in recorded phone conversations and texts.

Thoroughbred trainers Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro have been amongst these convicted and issued jail phrases.

HISA, a personal entity overseen by the Federal Commerce Fee, is at the moment accountable for implementing nationwide, uniform security and integrity guidelines in Thoroughbred racing in a lot of the United States, a accountability that had beforehand fallen upon state commissions. Presently, litigation continues on the federal stage that argues HISA is unconstitutional. The act authorizing HISA was signed into federal regulation in December 2020.