A Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority hearing scheduled Monday that was slated to be the next chapter in the Marshall Gramm saga has been postponed. The order to postpone the hearing was posted on the HISA website Monday and was issued Friday and signed by Joe DeFrancis, the chair of the Board Panel and Racetrack Safety Committee.According to the ruling, the decision to postpone the hearing was made because HISA and Gramm and his legal team have made a “good-faith effort to resolve this matter at mediation.”The date of the mediation sessions has not yet been determined. Gramm does not have to accept the mediator's ruling. If the mediation is unsuccessful, the matter will shift back to HISA and a new hearing before the HISA committee will be held.The TDN reached out to both Gramm and DeFrancis and both declined to comment.The Paulick Report was first with the story.Gramm, a horse owner and horseplayer, has admitted that he improperly accessed confidential veterinary records on horses he did not own. A HISA investigation revealed that Gramm had improperly gained access to the HISA portal to obtain the information. According to HISA, Gramm acquired the information over a six-week period from early May to mid-June and gained access to as many as four million records.In August, Gramm accepted a provisional suspension from HISA that barred him from owning any horses. At that time, his Ten Strike stable was disbanded. The provisional suspension will remain in effect until the matter is resolved. Though admitting that he improperly accessed the records, Gramm has vowed that he will fight back if he feels the final penalty is too severe.“I hope we can resolve the remaining issues fairly and put this matter behind us so that everyone can refocus on the sport we care about,” Gramm said in a statement after the provisional suspension was announced.After it was initially announced that HISA was moving forward with a case against Gramm, he was anything but conciliatory. He posted the following on X: “I intend to vigorously defend myself in the HISA proceedings. I am a college professor and data analyst, and gathering and analyzing large datasets is something I have done throughout my career, including extensive work with horse racing data. The information at issue was available through my authorized HISA account. It was a large dataset, and at the time I accessed it, I had not fully reviewed its contents or understood the scope of the information it contained.”HISA charged Gramm with Fraud, Attempted Fraud and Misrepresentation in connection with the care or racing of a covered horse.Gramm is also an economics professor at Rhodes College.The post Citing Progress in Negotiations, HISA Postpones Gramm Hearing appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.