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Trainer Michael Lauer has been suspended 75 days and fined $2,600 over a positive test for metformin in his trainee Mowins

Trainer Phillip Aristone, a member of the Parx Racing Hall of Fame, has been suspended for 105 days and fined $7,500 over a pair of positive tests for lamotrigine

Another case resolution saw embattled trainer Marcus Vitali handed a $500 fine over a positive test for betamethasone in Pennsylvania.

Trainer Natalia Lynch was handed down the full consequences for a pair of banned substances, whereas trainers David Reid and William Martin received reduced sanctions due to mitigating circumstances.

This week, three additional trainers have been allowed to withdraw their admissions of guilt and restart their own arbitration processes

"We firmly believe that no horseman should be deprived of his or her due process rights because of a lack of resources," Lazarus wrote.

Eight new pending violations for controlled substances have been added to the HIWU website this week as well,

Each of the three horses which tested positive for the vasodilator has also been suspended from action for 60 days

The most severe is a two-year suspension for trainer Mario Dominguez over a positive test for banned substance cobalt. 

Lauer is still permitted to train while awaiting results of a split sample test; he is the fifth trainer with a positive test for metformin