Currently the leading trainer at Aqueduct Racetrack, Linda Rice has been issued a 10-day suspension and $1,000 fine due to an overage of phenylbutazone in Winter Pool, winner of Aqueduct's first race on Jan. 7, 2023. According to the Daily Racing Form, Rice's nephew, Adam Rice, will oversee the stable and any starters during her suspension.
The New York State Gaming Commission steward Braulio Baeza, Jr. confirmed the ruling to DRF on Thursday.
Rice's penalty will commence on Monday and and run through Feb. 28.
Winter Pool was disqualified from his victory, and owner Ronald Stewart ordered to return the purse money of $19,250. Since the horse was claimed for $12,500 out of that win, stewards have ordered the horse returned to Rice's barn.
Rice told DRF she believes the overage stems from the use of oral bute paste on Dec. 29, following the horse's win in a $16,000 claimer; the trainer said she hadn't planned to run the horse back in 9 days.
Read more at the Daily Racing Form.
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