For those who believe some trainers use nothing at all...there ain\'t none.Imagine the field day the Kool Aid drinkers would have if it was TAP/RUDY/DJ et al
Mott files federal lawsuit challenging 15-day suspension
NYSGC:
Bill Mott, the Hall of Fame trainer, has filed a federal lawsuit against the New York State Gaming Commission, its officers, and officials with the state's drug-testing lab, claiming that he was denied due-process rights to defend himself against an accusation that he had two therapeutic overages in the same horse last year, according to a copy of the suit.
The suit seeks to overturn a 15-day suspension handed down by the gaming commission after a horse trained by Mott, Saratoga Snacks, tested positive for overages of two therapeutic medications, the anti-bleeding drug furosemide and the painkiller flunixin, following a last-place finish in an allowance race at Belmont Park on Sept. 20, 2014. In the suit, Mott's attorney, Drew Mollica, claims that the gaming commission denied Mott due process by failing to provide a split sample of the horse's blood so that the concentrations of the drugs could be verified by a second lab, along with testing to determine whether the sample came from Saratoga Snacks.
Mott appealed the suspension earlier this year, claiming that the high concentrations of the drugs in the blood sample could not have been produced from a sample from Saratoga Snacks. The concentrations of furosemide and banamine were both 10 times the permissible levels allowed by New York's medication rules.
The suit seeks to have the suspension vacated as well as the award of attorney's fees.
Meh. Heard Mott\'s attorney on this topic before and he\'s 100% right. It doesn\'t even make sense to give a horse that much flunixin. It would be counter-productive, and whoa, the horse finished last in an allowance race.
Stuff that can\'t be tested for is a far more concern and I\'ve seen zero evidence Mott is involved in that like the guys you are seemingly trying to defend here.
A screw up happened. Either with the vet or with the testing. Nothing in this story even remotely hints that Mott is some kind of cheater.
Defend against what??TAP/Jacobson had zero overages in the time Mott got this one. It made no sense either when Rudy had a similar ridiculous overage of fluxin, he got 15 days and a fine.
I don\'t care about overages. There\'s stuff in place for it and an overage isn\'t going to get a 4 point new top out of a 5 year old.