Santa Anita stewards have issued a 15-day suspension and $5,000 fine to trainer Simon Callaghan, reports bloodhorse.com, for violating the California Horse Racing Board's policy for extra corporeal shock wave therapy. Stewards minutes indicate that Callaghan trainee Federal Bureau worked four furlongs on May 22, 2021, even though the horse had received three shock wave treatments on May 5, 12, and 19.
Federal Bureau is an unraced 3-year-old by Medaglia d'Oro, who sold for $1.2 million at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling sale. He was nominated to the Triple Crown this year with Qatar Racing and Stonestreet Stable listed as owners.
Following a spate of equine fatalities at Santa Anita Park in 2019, the CHRB changed its shock wave policy in early 2020. Shock wave is used to increase blood flow and speed healing, but can have analgesic effects. Horses are now not allowed to resume workouts or racing within 30 days of a shock wave treatment; previously, that spacing had been 10 days.
Callaghan's suspension is scheduled to run from Nov. 14 through 28, and the CHRB has denied his application for a stay of suspension. Attorney Darrell Vienna told bloodhorse.com Callaghan plans to appeal.
Read more at bloodhorse.com.
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