Month: September 2023

‘The Strongest Of The Strong’: Cindy Hutter Earns Bill Mooney Award For Courage

The National Turf Writers and Broadcasters will present Cindy Hutter, who continues her inspiring recovery from a severe brain injury sustained in a training accident in July 2022, with the Bill Mooney Award for displaying courage in the face of tremendous adversity.

Born and raised in Romansville, Pennsylvania, near the horse-centric area of Unionville, Hutter started riding at a young age before going to work for trainer Bruce Miller after she turned 16. Hutter later worked for D. Wayne Lukas, galloping such stars as Winning Colors, Thunder Gulch, Open Mind and Flanders; and later for Todd Pletcher, working with more greats such as More Than Ready, Jersey Girl and Graeme Hall.

Hutter and her husband, trainer George Weaver, launched their own stable in 2002. With Hutter serving as assistant and lead exercise rider, the couple campaigned Grade 1 winners Lighthouse Bay and Vekoma and graded stakes winners Christine's Outlaw, Daddy Is a Legend, Devil's Preacher, Drum Major, Falling Sky, Isotherm, Main Event, Majestic Dunhill, Pass the Champagne, Point of Honor, Saratoga County, Tizahit and Together Indy.

Hutter suffered injuries July 3, 2022, when a filly she was galloping on Saratoga's Oklahoma Training Track collapsed and died from an apparent heart attack. Unconscious for several weeks, Hutter continues to bounce back through rehabilitation and therapy all while making her presence felt at the barn even from a distance. 

“We're very honored to win this award,” Weaver said. “Cindy was tough beforehand, and we ended up finding out how much tougher she was after everything happened. We're doing everything we can and she continues to improve. She's still got a strong work ethic. 

“She might come out to the barn once a week, once every couple weeks. She came out the other day, spent the whole morning with us. And, of course, there was no shortage of comments to do this, and to do that.”

Hutter joins five prior Mooney winners – the award's namesake who died after a long battle with cancer in 2017: horseman Kiaran McLaughlin, retired jockey Joy Scott, retired jockey and owner Rene Douglas and horsewoman Martine Bellocq. She will be honored along with the NTWAB's other four award winners at the organization's 63rd annual Awards Dinner at The Woolf Den by The Derby in Arcadia near Santa Anita Park, Wednesday, November 1. 

Hutter was on hand this summer when her husband saddled Crimson Advocate to victory in the Group 2 Queen Mary at Royal Ascot, one of 10 stakes wins for the stable this year.

Sean Clancy, a longtime Turf writer and former steeplechase jockey who has known Hutter for decades, wrote about the trying times for the couple the last two summers in The Saratoga Special. 

“Last year, I was standing by the outside rail of the Oklahoma talking to George. It had been two weeks, maybe, since Cindy's accident,” Clancy said. “He was always a horse trainer to me. That day, he was a husband. Scared of what lay ahead, scared for what Cindy's life would look like. It was all so uncertain. The thought of Cindy trapped, dependent, unable to live the life she had built … man, it was devastating. The whole racetrack felt it.

“Then this year. What a difference a year makes. We finished a Stable Tour and I said to George, 'Hey, if a year ago, someone said you would win a race at Royal Ascot, with Cindy there, you'd win nine at Saratoga and Cindy would be watching the horses and offering her insights, her valuable insights…' George shook his head and smiled, 'She's come so far. I'm so proud of her. If someone told me a year ago that this is what it would be like, I'd have taken it. Sign me up, give me the contract.'

“Cindy wrote the contract. She worked her way from a farm in Pennsylvania, galloping jumpers in fields to the pinnacle of Thoroughbred racing, first on Wayne Lukas' burners, then Todd Pletcher's, then her husbands' horses. We always knew she was a strong rider. In the last year, she showed she's a strong woman, the strongest of the strong. Not that I'm surprised.”

Other honorees at the NTWAB Annual Awards Dinner will be Edwin Gregson Foundation (Joe Palmer Award), Team Cody's Wish (Mr. Fitz Award), Kenny Rice (Jim McKay Award) and Mike Kane (Walter Haight Award), along with other writing award winners announced that evening.

The NTWAB Awards Dinner is traditionally held during Breeders' Cup Week and is the organization's only fundraiser. A portion of the proceeds from the event are used toward internships for prospective Thoroughbred racing journalists and to support Thoroughbred industry charities.

Tickets are available for the event either by contacting Jennifer Kelly at thesirbarton@gmail.com, NTWAB at ntwab2016@gmail.com or on the NTWAB website here: https://www.ntwab.org/order-ntwab-annual-awards-dinner-tickets 

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Charlsie Cantey To Be Honored At Horse Racing Women’s Summit

Pioneering horse racing television commentator Charlsie Cantey will be honored with the Jane Goldstein Exemplary Leadership Award at the second annual Horse Racing Women's Summit, Sept. 27-29, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.

A native of North Carolina, Cantey started her career with race horses in New York after graduating from George Washington University in 1968. She worked with trainers Elliott Burch, Frank Whiteley Jr., David Whiteley, and Sidney Watters, as well as Joe Cantey after their 1969 marriage.

She was persuaded by Frank Wright and Dave Johnson, co-hosts of the WOR-TV weekly racing show in New York, to join them in 1975.  Two years later she made her network debut on CBS for the Travers Stakes, alongside Wright and Jack Whitaker. During nine years with CBS she originated interviews from horseback.

When ABC was contracted for Triple Crown coverage in 1986, Cantey was part of the talent team that included Jim McKay, Al Michaels, Whitaker, and Johnson. In 2001 the contract went to NBC, where she worked with Tom Hammond and others for the Triple Crown, as well as the Breeders' Cup World Championships.

Cantey brought unique insight about horses to the telecasts, and despite ongoing nervousness about her live appearances she offered poise and professionalism that brought her immediate acceptance.

“I never thought of myself as a pioneer,” Cantey told Jay Hovdey in a 2020 Bloodhorse interview. “I never stopped to think that I was a woman trying to work in a man's world, because I came out of the backstretch. The people I was interviewing in the afternoon were people I worked alongside in the morning…And I have to say I never faced any discrimination.”

Cantey's past honors include being part of some two dozen Eclipse Award-winning telecasts, selection to the National Museum of Racing's Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor, the Jim McKay Award for broadcasting excellence by National Turf Writers and Broadcasters, and Pimlico's Old Hilltop Award at the Preakness Alibi Breakfast.

“I am honored, and beyond humbled, to receive the Jane Goldstein Leadership Award,” Cantey said. “To be recognized by Jane and the Horse Racing Women's Summit is a stunning surprise, and I am so grateful to be remembered by this important collective force committed to advancing all facets of our mutual lifelong passion, thoroughbred racing.”

She retired in 2005 and enjoys time with three grandsons.

The award is named for ground-breaking turf publicist Jane Goldstein, who was recognized for the inaugural presentation last year.

Tickets to HRWS 2023 are still available and can be purchased online. Visit www.womeninracingsummit.com for more information.

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Cantey to be Honored with Leadership Award

Pioneering horse racing television commentator Charlsie Cantey will be honored with the Jane Goldstein Exemplary Leadership Award at the second annual Horse Racing Women's Summit, Sept. 27-29, at Santa Anita Park.

A native of North Carolina, Cantey started her career with race horses in New York after graduating from George Washington University in 1968. She worked with trainers Elliot Burch, Frank Whiteley, Jr., David Whiteley, and Sidney Watters, as well as Joe Cantey after their 1969 marriage.

She was persuaded by Frank Wright and Dave Johnson, co-hosts of the WOR-TV (New York) weekly racing show, to join them in 1975. Two years later, she made her network debut on CBS for the Travers S., alongside Wright and Jack Whitaker. During nine years with CBS, she originated interviews from horseback.

When ABC was contracted for Triple Crown coverage in 1986, Cantey was part of the talent team that included Jim McKay, Al Michaels, Whitaker, and Johnson. In 2001, the contract went to NBC, where she worked with Tom Hammond and others for the Triple Crown, as well as the Breeders' Cup World Championships.

“I am honored, and beyond humbled, to receive the Jane Goldstein Leadership Award,” Cantey said. “To be recognized by Jane and the Horse Racing Women's Summit is a stunning surprise, and I am so grateful to be remembered by this important collective force committed to advancing all facets of our mutual lifelong passion, Thoroughbred racing.

The award is named for ground-breaking turf publicist Jane Goldstein, who was recognized for the inaugural presentation last year.

Tickets to HRWS 2023 are still available and can be purchased online. Visit www.womeninracingsummit.com for more information.

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HIWU Weekly Update: Trainer Suspended 4.5 Years, Fined $37,500 For Three Banned Substance Positives

The most severe case resolution published this week on the public disclosures section of the website for the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit (HIWU), the enforcement arm of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA), is a 4.5-year suspension and $37,500 fine for trainer Lorenzo Ruiz over a trio of positive tests for banned substance diisopropylamine.

The positives occurred at Los Alamitos in late June and early July. Each of the three horses which tested positive for the vasodilator has also been suspended from action for 60 days (Kant Beat The Rock, American Cat, and Facts Matter).

Other case resolutions this week included three trainers serving seven-day periods of ineligibility over acepromazine positives (Peter Miller, Carla Gaines, and A. Ferris Allen, III); a $3,000 fine over two violations of the intra-articular injection rule (Boyd Caster); and three Class C medication violations for vet's list workouts.

As a reminder: HIWU's regulations for vet's list workouts include stricter medication restrictions than those for horses completing routine timed workouts. Horses on the veterinarian's list are required to complete a recorded work before a veterinarian and undergo post-race drug testing to be taken off the list. Horses completing routine, non-vet's list workouts are prohibited from having analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, corticosteroids, and local anesthetics in their system, but other therapeutic medications are permitted.

Seven new pending violations for controlled substances have been added to the HIWU website this week as well, including two for Class B substances (which may carry a penalty of a seven-day suspension and $1,000 fine).

Last week's edition of the HIWU Weekly Roundup is available here, and all public disclosures can be found on the HIWU website.

New Case Resolutions

The following cases have recently been resolved by HIWU, either by early admission and acceptance of consequences (EAAC) or by final decision (FINAL).

  • Trainer Lorenzo Ruiz began serving a 4.5 year period of ineligibility and was fined $37,500 over three runners which tested positive for the vasodilator diisopropylamine (banned substance). He was suspended 18 months and fined $12,500 per instance; each horse was disqualified from their respective race with purse money ordered returned. (EAAC)
    • Kant Beat The Rock tested positive after finishing second in a starter allowance race at Los Alamitos on July 4. The horse will be suspended from action for 60 days beginning Aug. 3.
    • American Cat tested positive after winning a $16,000 claiming race at Los Alamitos on June 25. The 4-year-old gelding will be suspended from action for 60 days beginning July 13.
    • Facts Matter tested positive after winning a starter allowance race at Los Alamitos on June 23. The 8-year-old gelding will be suspended from action for 60 days beginning July 24.
  • Trainer Peter Miller began serving a seven-day period of ineligibility on Sept. 16 over three runners testing positive for acepromazine (Class B). Miller was also fined $1,000 and assessed 2 Penalty Points; each horse was disqualified from its respective race with purse money ordered returned (EAAC).
    • Forgiving Spirit finished second in an allowance optional claiming race at Santa Anita on June 11. A claim on the horse was voided.
    • Anmer Hall won a claiming race at Santa Anita on June 4; the horse was claimed by Steve Knapp. The the claimant has the option to void under HISA rules.
    • Giver Not A Taker finished fourth in an allowance optional claiming race on June 4 at Santa Anita.
  • Trainer Carla Gaines began serving a seven-day period of ineligibility on Sept. 16 over Summer Lake testing positive for acepromazine (Class B) after a vet's list workout at Santa Anita on July 14. Gaines was also fined $1,000 and assessed 2 Penalty Points. (EAAC)
  • Trainer A. Ferris Allen, III began serving a seven-day period of ineligibility on Sept. 16 over Musical Cat testing positive for acepromazine (Class B) after winning an allowance race at Penn National on June 16. The 5-year-old mare has been disqualified with purse money ordered returned; Allen was also fined $1,000 and assessed 2 Penalty Points. (EAAC)
  • Trainer Boyd Caster has been fined a total of $3,000 and assessed 3 Penalty Points over a pair of violations of the intra-articular injection rule. Trainees Inside Job and Dixieland Quality each worked at Remington Park at Aug. 5, within seven days of an injection. (EAAC)
  • Trainer Brittany Russell has been fined $500 and assessed 1.5 Penalty Points over Late Night Larry testing positive for dantrolene (Class C) after a vet's list workout at Delaware Park on June 25. (EAAC)
  • Trainer Cesar De Alba has been fined $500 and assessed 1.5 Penalty Points over Scary Fast Smile testing positive for dexamethasone (Class C) after finishing seventh in a $8,000 claiming race at Del Mar on Aug. 6. The 6-year-old gelding has been disqualified with purse money ordered returned. Scary Fast Smile was claimed out of the race by trainer Mark Glatt; the claimant has the option to void under HISA rules. (EAAC)
  • Trainer Antonio Arriaga has been fined $500 and assessed 1.5 Penalty Points over Jet Set Juliet testing positive for phenylbutazone (Class C) after a vet's list workout at Saratoga on Aug. 6. (FINAL)
  • Trainer Devarus Douglass has been fined $500 and assessed 1.5 Penalty Points over Pickle Feet testing positive for phenylbutazone (Class C) after a vet's list workout at Horseshoe Indianapolis on Aug. 4. (EAAC)
  • Trainer David Mohan was fined $500 and assessed 1.5 Penalty Points over Shoot Themessenger testing positive for methocarbamol (Class C) after a vet's list workout at Laurel Park on Aug. 3. (FINAL)
  • Trainer Jorge Maravilla has been fined $500 and assessed 1.5 Penalty Points over Brookys Tapit testing positive for phenylbutazone (Class C) after finishing fifth in a $4,000 claiming race at Santa Rosa on Aug. 3. The 4-year-old gelding has been disqualified with purse money ordered returned. Brookys Tapit was claimed out of the race by trainer/owner Jacqui Navarre; the claimant has the option to void under HISA rules. (EAAC)

Pending Violations – Controlled Substances

The following cases include pending violations for controlled substances, those that are permitted for therapeutic purposes, but not on race days or during vet's list workouts (new cases in italics at top of list).

  • Owner Totaram Rampersaud – Jumpster tested positive for phenylbutazone after a vet's list workout at Saratoga on Aug. 20. (Class C)
  • Trainer Joe Toye – Glimpse of Gold tested positive for dexamethasone after winning a maiden claiming race at Emerald Downs on Aug. 12. (Class C)
  • Trainer Faustino Patino Lopez – Night to Remember tested positive for dexamethasone after finishing third and last in a maiden claiming race at Emerald Downs on Aug. 12. (Class C)
  • Trainer Jeffrey Englehart –
    • Wait A Minute tested positive for acepromazine after a vet's list workout at Finger Lakes on July 18. (Class B)
    • Mi Tres Por Ciento tested positive for methocarbamol after a vet's list workout at Finger Lakes on July 18. (Class C)
    • Graywing tested positive for phenylbutazone after finishing fourth in an allowance race at Finger Lakes on July 17. (Class C)
  • Trainer Jason DaCosta – Poker Partner tested positive for gabapentin after winning a maiden special weight race at Parx on July 18. (Class B)
  • Trainer Norm Casse – violation of the intra-articular injection rule within seven days of a timed workout with Mo Fight (ruling date Aug. 17).
  • Trainer Jennifer Nunnally – Seraphimzale tested positive for phenylbutazone after a vet's list workout at Emerald Downs on Aug. 13. (Class C)
  • Trainer Robert Klesaris – Battalion tested positive for phenylbutazone after winning a starter allowance at Laurel Park on Aug. 12. (Class C)
  • Trainer Carlos Lopez – Alkalinization or use of an alkalinizing agent (TCO2) on two trainees on Aug. 10: I Said Hey ran fourth as the mutual favorite in a $10,000 claiming race at Belterra Park, and Brodytheoxman ran fourth as the mutual favorite in a $5,000 claiming race at Belterra Park.
  • Trainer Jaime Cruz – Animal Princess tested positive for detomidine (large animal sedative) after finishing third in a $16,000 claiming race at Delaware Park on Aug. 4. (Class B)
  • Trainer James Toner – Commandeer tested positive for phenylbutazone after winning an allowance at Colonial Downs on Aug. 3. (Class C)
  • Trainer Carla Gaines – Summer Lake tested positive for acepromazine after a vet's list workout at Santa Anita on July 14. (Class B)
  • Trainer Domenick Schettino – Fast Study tested positive for levamisole after finishing second in a maiden claiming race at Belmont Park on July 1. (Class B)
  • Trainer Chris Hartman – Necker Island tested positive for acepromazine after winning the Mighty Beau Stakes at Ellis Park on June 18. (Class B)
  • Trainer Miguel Alamo – Late Date tested positive for dexamethasone after finishing fifth in an allowance race at Thistledown on Aug. 1. (Class C)
  • Trainer Carlos Sedillo – violation of the intra-articular injection rule within seven days of a timed workout with Smooth Waters (ruling date July 30).
  • Trainer Don Roberson – Secret Life Style tested positive for flunixin (banamine) after finishing seventh and last in a $2,500 claiming race at Emerald Downs on July 28. (Class C)
  • Trainer Jacqueline Falk – Gold Templar tested positive for methocarbamol after finishing second in a maiden special weight race at Finger Lakes on June 28. (Class C)
  • Trainer Cassondra Weaver – Coyote Runner tested positive for acepromazine after a workout at Presque Isle Downs on July 20. (Class B)
  • Trainer Candice Cryderman – Dontforgethesugar tested positive for methocarbamol after finishing third in a claiming race at Emerald Downs on July 7. (Class C)
  • Trainer Chad Brown – Forced Ranking tested positive for omeprazole after a work at Monmouth Park on July 7. (Class C)
  • Trainer William Martin – Alkalinization or use of an alkalinizing agent (TCO2) on Wild Irish prior to his win in a claiming race at Presque Isle Downs on July 3.
  • Trainer Jose Camejo – Fire King tested positive for promazine sulfoxide and methocarbamol after a work at Monmouth Park on June 11. (Class B, C)
  • Trainer Dennis VanMeter – Templement tested positive for phenylbutazone in an allowance race at Thistledown on June 7, 2023 (finished sixth after clipping heels at the start). VanMeter is also provisionally suspended as Templement returned a positive test for the banned substance isoxsuprene in the same race. (Class C, banned)

Pending Violations – Provisional Suspensions For Banned Substances

The following cases include pending violations for banned substances, those that are not permitted in horses. New cases are listed in italics at the top of the list, and active suspensions have the trainer's name listed in bold.

Postponed suspensions, those for substances yet to be confirmed by split sample, are listed with an asterisk (*).

  • *Trainer R. McLane Hendricks – Princess Javoncia tested positive for cocaine after winning an allowance race at Penn National on Aug. 16.
  • Trainer John Pimental
    • Possession of Levothyroxine (violation date July 28)
    • Golovkin tested positive for methamphetamine after finishing last (sixth) in a claiming race at Monmouth Park on May 29. A claim on the horse was voided from this race.
  • Trainer Michael Pappada – Truckin Tommy tested positive for the opioid tapentadol after finishing sixth in a maiden claiming race at Presque Isle Downs on Aug. 8. The horse was vanned off after the race.
  • *Trainer Michael Lauer – Mowins tested positive for metformin after finishing third in an allowance race at Horseshoe Indianapolis on Aug. 5.
  • Trainer Nevada Litfin has been provisionally suspended for “use or attempted use of a controlled medication method and/or a controlled medication substance during the race period of the horse Dominus Tecum. The ruling was first announced on the Minnesota Racing Commission's website, where it was listed as being due to “actions detrimental to racing.”
  • *Trainer Angel J. Castillo Sanchez – Pylon tested positive for metformin after winning a $5,000 claiming race at Delaware Park on Aug. 3.
  • Trainer Hector Palma – Baladi tested positive for methamphetamine after finishing fourth in a claiming race at Del Mar on July 30.
  • Trainer Carlos Milian – Junglherly Love tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide (a diuretic). Horse has been running at Parx; ruling date of July 29 is reported to coincide with an out-of-competition test, per HIWU representatives.
  • Trainer Randy Preston – Fly Home tested positive for methamphetamine after winning a maiden claiming race at Belterra Park on July 20.
  • *Trainer Jim Lewis – Hughie's Holiday tested positive for clenbuterol after winning a claiming race at Ruidoso Downs on July 8.
  • Trainer Ramon Rechy – Night Livin tested positive for methamphetamine after winning a claiming race at Horseshoe Indianapolis on July 7.
  • Trainer Milton Pineda – seven runners have now tested positive for the vasodilator diisopropylamine
    • Wegonahaveagoodtime won a $12,500 claiming race at Los Alamitos on July 4, after which he tested positive.
    • Keep Your Coil won a $25,000 claiming race at Los Alamitos on July 2, after which she tested positive.
    • Catbernay won a $10,000 claiming race at Los Alamitos on July 1, after which he tested positive.
    • Chollima won an $8,000 claiming race at Los Alamitos on June 23, after which she tested positive, and has since finished second in a $12,500 claiming race
    • Big Splash won a $16,000 waiver claiming event at Santa Anita on June 10, after which he tested positive. Big Splash has since finished third in an allowance optional claiming race at Los Alamitos on June 24.
    • Flatterwithjewels finished second in a $12,500 claiming race at Santa Anita on June 9 and was claimed by Flurry Racing Stables and trainer Phil D'Amato. The claim will be voided under HISA rules.
    • Bella Renella won a $20,000 claiming race at Santa Anita on June 2, after which she tested positive. The 6-year-old mare has since won a starter optional claiming race at Santa Anita on June 18.
  • Trainer Natalia Lynch – possession of Levothyroxine, and a gelding in her care tested positive for altrenogest.
    • Motion to Strike tested positive for altrenogest after the gelding finished fourth in a claiming race at Monmouth Park on June 24. He was claimed from that race by owner/trainer Silvino Ramirez, and has since finished third in a claiming race at Monmouth on July 14. Under HISA rules, the claim will be voided.
  • Trainer Bruno Tessore – Tenebris, a gelding, tested positive for altrenogest on July 18 (no races or workouts listed on that date by Equibase).
  • Trainer David Reid – Maligator tested positive for venlafaxine (an anti-depressant and nerve pain medication) after winning a claiming race at Hawthorne on June 25. The 8-year-old gelding has since finished second in a claiming race at Hawthorne on July 16.
  • Trainer Javier Morzan – Lady Liv tested positive for metformin (a commonly used prescription drug that treats diabetes) after finishing third in a starter optional claiming race at Delaware Park on June 24.
  • Trainer Mary Pirone – Benny The Jet tested positive for altrenogest after the gelding finished fifth in a claiming race at Emerald Downs on June 24. He was claimed from that race and moved to the barn of trainer Jorge Rosales, and has since won a claiming race at Emerald on July 14. Under HISA rules, the claim will be voided.
  • Trainer Joseph Taylor – two runners have tested positive for both methylphenidate and clenbuterol
    • Classy American finished second in a starter allowance at Parx on June 20
    • Cajun Cousin finished second in a claiming race at Parx on June 18. The 4-year-old filly has since won a claiming race at Parx on July 12, prior to the positive being called. Cajun Cousin was claimed out of that race by trainer Michael V. Pino for Smart Angle LLP; the claim will be voided under HISA rules.
  • Trainer Donald H. Buckner – In the Midst tested positive for clenbuterol after finishing fifth in an allowance race at Thistledown on June 15.
  • Trainer Guadalupe Munoz Elizondo – Quinton's Charmer tested positive for metformin, a medication commonly prescribed in humans for type 2 diabetes, on June 11, 2023 (the New Mexico Racing Commission's Izzy Trejo confirmed that the positive test was incurred after a work before the state veterinarian in an attempt to remove Quinton's Charmer from the vet's list).
    • Munoz Elizondo is also a multiple graded stakes-winning Quarter Horse trainer. Since HISA/HIWU have no jurisdiction over Quarter Horse racing, Munoz Elizondo will still be able to train and race Quarter Horses in New Mexico. Trejo said that HISA gave guidance last year that jockeys suspended for whip violations on a Thoroughbred could ride in Quarter Horse races, so the NMRC has applied the same logic to a trainer with a HIWU suspension. Thus, Munoz Elizondo is permitted to participate in Quarter Horse races. Trejo added that the commission is pushing for a state rule that will apply reciprocity at the NMRC level for HISA suspensions, but that isn't in place yet.
  • Trainer Reed Saldana – Ice Queen tested positive for the vasodilator diisopropylamine after finishing third in a starter allowance at Santa Anita on June 16
  • Dr. Luis Jorge Perez, DVM – possession of levothyroxine (violation date June 9)
  • Trainer Dennis VanMeter – Templement tested positive for isoxsuprine after finishing sixth in an allowance race at Thistledown on June 7, 2023 (see above, horse also returned positive test for controlled substance phenylbutazone)
  • Trainer Jonathan Wong – Heaven and Earth tested positive for metformin after winning a maiden race at Horseshoe Indianapolis on June 1.

Last week's edition of the HIWU Weekly Roundup is available here, and all public disclosures can be found on the HIWU website.

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