Trainer Jose Corrales, a Laurel Park mainstay, has been hit with a 2-year suspension after one of his riders tested positive for nikethamide.
Fair Hill-based trainer Angel Quiroz, at the center of an alleged betting coup, has been provisionally suspended by HISA for use of a banned substance.
In imposing provisional suspensions, HISA alleges that Maryland Vet Group vets have been dispensing medications with banned substances.
HISA has alleged that one veterinarian and 13 trainers at Penn National conspired to evade rules limiting intra-articular injections.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) is seeking to limit the use of provisional suspensions in its medication control program.
The National HBPA today called on HISA to adopt drug testing threshold levels below which no positive is called.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s (HISA) drug and medication control rules, on hold by court order, will resume May 22.
A flurry of dueling press releases heralded the onset Monday of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s (HISA) new drug rules.
A Tuesday presentation at Laurel Park outlined a HISA medication control program scheduled to launch March 27 and representing a major industry change.