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Trainers disciplined for doping horses
Updated: Wednesday, 26 Sep 2012, 10:09 AM MDT
Published : Wednesday, 26 Sep 2012, 10:09 AM MDT
- Magdalena Sharpe
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Racing officials have come down hard on two New Mexico’s top trainers for illegally doping horses.
This past summer KRQE News 13 Investigative reporter Larry Barker exposed a number of horsemen who were giving their animals performance enhancing drugs.
Trainer John Bassett has been disciplined for giving a horse Demorphine, a powerful narcotic, he’s been suspended for ten years, fined $10,000 and must forfeit his winnings.
Officials say trainer Carl Draper gave a horse a substance called Ractopamine. He was suspended for ten months and must pay a $6,000 fine.
Discipline is expected this weekend against other trainers named in Larry Barker’s report.
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