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 ...

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 ...

Racing officials in Scandinavia have given way to a strike threat from jockeys and changed new rules on midrace encouragement from the saddle. Wednesday's card at Bro Park in Sweden is going ahead, ...