The Jockey Club, the breed registry for Thoroughbreds in North America, and the Latin American Racing Channel, a distribution company that consolidates horse racing simulcasts in the United States, Europe, Australia and Latin America, will host the second Pan American Conference, and this one will take place in Washington, D.C., May 17 - 20, 2017, in the days leading up to the Preakness Stakes at
Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The organization and agenda for the conference will fall under the same team of the first Pan American Conference at the direction of Esposito, Kavulakian, and Gagliano. The Stronach Group will also play a major role in support of the conference, especially on Preakness day. Among the prospective topics are simulcasting, illegal betting, medication, harmonization of rules, international ratings and classifications, marketing, stud book issues, the importing and exporting of bloodstock, and Thoroughbred ownership. The 2017 Pan American Conference, like the one held in New York, will also include several premier social events at prominent landmarks around the Washington, D.C., area, concluding with a trip to Baltimore on Saturday, May 20, for the Preakness Stakes. Attendees at the 2015 Pan American Conference witnessed American Pharoah's Belmont Stakes victory when he became Thoroughbred racing's 12th Triple Crown winner.
