Yeah but Hoss, isn't this the same case as when trainers get days for some sort of infraction? The horses are just entered into the name of the assistant trainer and life goes on as usual, just the guy in charge is running it from a remote site.

Kentucky needs cash for their state budget? Here's an idea: If you have a PERFECTLY clean record...your trainers license is $100.00...for every racing violation the cost doubles and so on :$:...just like car insurance...Dutrow would pay a higher cost for his yearly license...and make it hurt...figure it out on what these repeat drug test violations would cost the violating trainers :zz:

Yeah, pretty much. They are both wrong and ineffective in policing the sport.

The trainer of the third-place finisher in the Grade 1 Madison Stakes on April 14 at Keeneland Racecourse has filed an appeal of a complaint that the second-place finisher should not have been allowed to start, according to Kentucky racing officials.


Joan Scott, the trainer of Dr. Zic who ran third in the Madison, first lodged the complaint shortly after race, claiming that the second-place finisher, Amen Hallelujah, should have been scratched because the horse’s trainer at the time of entry, Richard Dutrow, did not have a license. The appeal will be heard by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.


http://www.drf.com/news/keeneland-vi...n-under-appeal