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Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced in a social media statement on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 that Frederick Bourgault, 25, of Canada, was arraigned on an indictment charging him with two felonies in connection with the death of a racehorse on July 17, 2023, at the Pine Bush Training Facility in the Town of Crawford, New York.
Late Wednesday (Jan. 9) night, harness racing owner-trainer-driver Jim Slendorn electronically entered his three horses to race at the Meadowlands this coming weekend. By noontime he was not a happy man. “To be honest with you,” said Slendorn. “I’m kinda disappointed. “I called the race office later that morning,” Slendorn explained. “To see if a
A horse racing watchdog is trying to clean up the sport, which for years has grappled with drugs and cheating. Then, multiple horse deaths since last spring have added to questions about the sport's future.
The Justice Department is winding down one of the biggest horse doping investigations in U.S. history. Tonight, you'll hear the incriminating wiretaps that helped crack the case, convicting 29 veterinarians, horse trainers and drug distributors. Horse racing, known as the sport of kings, found its crown badly tarnished last spring when a dozen horses died during
Veterinarian Seth Fishman suggested federal agents wanted to wire him for sound to bring down his alleged horse-doping cronies. He declined saying “for biblical reasons,” he couldn’t do it. In March 2020, federal prosecutors unsealed indictments against Fishman and more than two dozen others in the racing industry.