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[golfer]

From Ed Fountaine's article in today's NY Post:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11102007...ocs_740077.htm

Trainer Donna Wormser was fined $1,000 and suspended for 30 days by the State Racing and Wagering Board after her horse Star for a Day tested positive for Clenbuterol winning 11th race at Saratoga on Travers Day, Aug. 25. Star for a Day paid $57.50, was part of a pick 4 that returned $1,025 with favorites winning the other three legs. Wormser has been granted a stay on appeal.

That bleepin horse destroyed me on Travers Day... closing from dead last, like a rocket.. I went back over that race numerous times to see if I had missed anything. Apparently what I missed was not readily visible.

[Dunbar]

Trainer Donna Wormser was fined $1,000 and suspended for 30 days by the State Racing and Wagering Board after her horse Star for a Day tested positive for Clenbuterol winning 11th race at Saratoga on Travers Day, Aug. 25. Star for a Day paid $57.50, was part of a pick 4 that returned $1,025 with favorites winning the other three legs. Wormser has been granted a stay on appeal.

So a $20 bet on the winner would take care of the fine. A $100 bet would make the 30 days time-out a lot less painful.

--Dunbar

[GPK]

that sucks..

[blackthroatedwind]

This one really stinks. Putover of the decade, on Traver's Day, with the massive connections heading to the Winner's Circle somewhere between the 3rd race and the eighth pole....and the horse came from the clouds.

[golfer]

And they wait 2 1/2 months to make this ruling??? I don't know when they did the testing, but if it was done and announced within a week, let's say, the emotions would be running much hotter. Do you think the delay is intentional for that very reason? So they can sneak it in and hope few people notice, or remember?

[outofthebox]

They test following the race. And in most cases if the test comes up positive you will be notified usually within the week. depending on the jurisdiction. You then have the opportunity to get the sample retested at another lab at your own expense. The racing boards do drag these positive cases on way to long. They can usually make these public within the month, but for reasons only known to themselves and the guilty parties, it is usually takes a couple of months.

[blackthroatedwind]

The late double, on Traver's Day, was under the parlay I believe.

Oh yeah, the horse made one subsequent start, on October 17th at Keeneland, and was vanned off.

This stinks.

[TheSpyder]

Man, you're not kidding, that's about as bad as it gets for sticking this drug shiat in the face of the horse player. What the hell can we do about this.......I guess just lose money.

Spyder

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

The late double, on Traver's Day, was under the parlay I believe.

Oh yeah, the horse made one subsequent start, on October 17th at Keeneland, and was vanned off.

This stinks.

[Linny]

Originally Posted by golfer

And they wait 2 1/2 months to make this ruling??? I don't know when they did the testing, but if it was done and announced within a week, let's say, the emotions would be running much hotter. Do you think the delay is intentional for that very reason? So they can sneak it in and hope few people notice, or remember?

This is typical of the pace of announcements from the NYR&WB. The delay in handing down a ruling is par for the course, not intended to hide anything. When Pletcher's SPA positive was announced they were already on the Inner Tube!