{"id":78983,"date":"2017-03-20T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=78983"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:07:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:07:21","slug":"magee-protect-racing-horse-test-lab-affiliated-with-morrisville-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=78983","title":{"rendered":"Magee: Protect racing horse test lab affiliated with Morrisville State"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33907\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=33907\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33907\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33907\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee.jpg?resize=226%2C263\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee.jpg?w=226&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee.jpg?resize=128%2C150&amp;ssl=1 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Magee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Assemblyman Bill Magee (D-Nelson) announced the Assembly\u2019s 2017-18 state budget proposal would maintain Morrisville State College as the institution that oversees the testing of race horses\u2019 blood and urine samples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorrisville State\u2019s management of the racehorse testing lab provides a cost-effective service to the state\u2019s racing industry and gives students who participate in the Equine Racing Management program a chance to gain first-hand experience with the state\u2019s racing industry,\u201d said Magee, chair of the Assembly\u2019s Agriculture Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The executive\u2019s budget proposal allows out-of-state laboratories to <!--more-->test for prohibited substances in blood and urine samples from racehorses, dealing a major blow to the Morrisville State\u2019s affiliated lab, which currently provides these services. The laboratory, located in Ithaca, employs 20 professionals and provides students in the college\u2019s Equine Racing Management program the ability to work closely with these scientists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important we keep these jobs from leaving our state,\u201d said Magee. \u201cThe racing laboratory overseen by Morrisville State does a good job testing for prohibited substances at our race tracks and as such, I will fight for a final state budget that ensures the college continues to oversee the state\u2019s racehorse testing program to ensure we keep these jobs in New York State.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Bill Magee (D-Nelson) announced the Assembly\u2019s 2017-18 state budget proposal would maintain Morrisville State College as the institution that oversees the testing of race horses\u2019 blood and urine samples. \u201cMorrisville State\u2019s management of the racehorse testing lab provides a cost-effective service to the state\u2019s racing industry and gives students who participate in the Equine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-kxV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee.jpg?fit=226%2C263&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}