RunfortheDoe wins Oaklawn Handicap?

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Originally Posted by Kasept

Actually, it is the 2nd positive of his career. Both have been with Class 4 items. The first was the Isoxsuprine case with Can't Beat It in Chicago. Illinois ended up agreeing with Wolfson on the case, over-turned the violation, and then changed their own withdrawl guidelines on the product from an outlandish 21 days when the rest of the country uses 4-7 days as the guideline.

This is the point of the RMTC Model Rules project. Horsemen widely use things like anti-infammatories, and the guidelines and levels are all over the place for them. In this case, Wolfson took It's a Bird off it 120 hours before the race. In New York, they suggest coming off it only 48 hours before... Other jurisdictions suggest 96-120 hours. Arkansas doesn't even have a published guideline in the system.

Here's the RMTC Withdrawl Times engine:
http://www.rmtcnet.com/withdrawal_agree.asp

You're going to continue to have these kinds of positives with the wide disparities in allowable levels of the various medications. Like Todd Pletcher's Procaine positive and Disqualification with Wait a While in the Breeders' Cup...

from what i read, can't beat it had two positives, the one you mentioned and naproxen-for which he was given a $1000 fine.



from drf: In 2006, Wolfson had two Class 4 positives, for naproxen and isoxsuprine, a vasodilator, on Can't Beat It, who finished second in the Grade 2 American Derby at Arlington Park.

The horse was initially disqualified and placed last, but following an appeal his runner-up finish was reinstated. The Illinois Racing Board retroactively restored the finish after it set threshold levels for isoxsuprine. The naproxen ruling stood, and Wolfson was fined $1,000.