Category: Drugs in Racing

The Delaware commission ultimately undercut the stewards’ rulings, reducing Neilson’s penalty to a one-month suspension and a $1,000 fine because they believed he was ignorant of the rules and guilty mostly of poor recordkeeping. For Pecoraro, they overturned the penalty altogether because they said the stewards had failed to cite the absolute insurer rule that […]

“He had an odd way of training,” says the trainer who raced with Servis and Navarro. “Jason’s horses would never even work out, and then they would show up and run a hole in the wind. Everyone was like, ‘How are you doing that?’ ” What you see below is taken from an interview that Mick […]

Somebeachshadow was a smart horse when he was young. It took the son of Somebeachsomewhere six starts before he clicked, but once did he won 13 of his next 39 starts, including three in a row at Melton, one of them a Group 3 in which he beat Tam Major, who had run 2nd to […]

Journalist and writer Rob Campbell posted this on his website a couple of years back. It sure explains how the con man Angelo Koutsourakis and his faux business Bio-Medical Animal Health won their award, doesn’t it? And here I was thinking they were just brilliant illegal deer placenta sellers. Gee life can be disappointing sometimes. […]

I wrote this article below on the 16th of June 2020. Lots has happened since then. More is to follow. Kristian Rhein was the vet. Two weeks ago he was jailed for the maximum of 3 years for his role in the doping scheme. Rhein was ordered to forfeit $1.02 million, and pay $730 000 […]