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20
Jul
  • Juan Vazquez
  • Parx Racing
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Racing Commission
  • Tom Chuckas

Juan Vazquez suspension could keep him out of racing to 2025

  • Frank Vespe / 4 years
  • 5
  • 3 min read

Trainer Juan Vazquez will, unless his appeal succeeds, be out of racing until 2025 after PA stewards suspended his license in an animal cruelty case.

Penn National
29
Sep
  • Penn National
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Racing Commission
  • Presque Isle Downs
  • Tom Chuckas

Penn National, Presque Isle to add days

  • Guest Author / 4 years
  • 2
  • 3 min read

Penn National and Presque Isle Downs will both add days after their respective requests were approved by the Pennsylvania Racing Commission.

Its a Journey
27
May
  • Parx Racing
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Racing Commission
  • Tom Chuckas

Parx sweep yields “significant” contraband

  • Frank Vespe / 5 years
  • 2
  • 2 min read

An “enforcement action” at Parx Racing yielded significant contraband, the state Racing Commission learned, and is the first of several such actions.

Eighth Wonder Parx
16
Jun
  • Eighth Wonder
  • John Servis
  • Miss Inclusive
  • Parx Oaks
  • Parx Racing
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Racing Commission

Preposterous Parx Oaks fiasco reaches absurd ending

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 5 min read

For wagering purposes, Miss Inclusive won the 2016 Parx Oaks. For purse money purposes, Eighth Wonder did. And for race records? Both of ’em won.

12
Dec
  • Parx Racing
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Racing Commission
  • Ramon Preciado

Preciado’s trainer license to be revoked

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 1
  • 4 min read

Controversial trainer Ramon Preciado — currently appealing eight recent clenbuterol positives — will lose his training license, per a state Racing Commission ruling issued today.

10
Aug
  • Dr. Dionne Benson
  • National uniform medication program
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Racing Commission
  • Racing Medication and Testing Consortium

Pennsylvania adopts full national medication program

  • Press Release / 9 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

With its moves in late July, the Pennsylvania Racing Commission made the state the 10th to adopt all tenets of the national uniform medication program.

04
Aug
  • Brian Sanfratello
  • Castle Rock Farm
  • Charlton Bloodstock Agency
  • Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Racing Commission
  • Peter Giangiulio
  • Rep. Martin Causer
  • Rick Abbott

In Pennsylvania, breeding awards impasse “really getting critical”

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 8 min read

Pennsylvania breeders have gone without expected bonus awards for nearly six months, costing them millions, with the impasse likely to continue into September.

11
Jun
  • Danny Robertson
  • David Wells
  • Patricia Rogers
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pennsylvania Racing Commission
  • Peter Smith
  • Sam Webb

Judge dismisses case against trainer Samuel Webb

  • The Biz / 12 years
  • 0
  • 2 min read

A federal judge last week dismissed charges against trainer Samuel Webb, accused of wire fraud in an alleged “horse doping” case.

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