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A new federally created body is set to enforce uniform standards for doping and other safety issues—if it can fight off legal challenges about wresting control from the states.

The current Supreme Court is doing vital work policing the Constitution’s separation of powers. And it may soon get another chance in a case over whether a private horse-racing authority can deploy regulatory powers usually reserved for the federal government.

Horse racing’s new antidoping and medication control program has stumbled out of the starting gate, delayed multiple times for nearly a year amid lawsuits by those opposing the new rules and frustration from those eager for national uniform standards in the sport.