Dale Romans gets a seven day suspension after a bute test runs positive
The forty-five-year old Dale Romans was enthusiastic about his prolific successful previous year but a race from the same year has doomed the trainer into seven days’ suspension that is effective from 13th February.
The suspension is the consequence of a test that was run on Free Brave for phenylbutazone, resulting positive. The drug that is inter changeably named bute and is a non-steroidal anti inflammatory that serves short-term relief from pain and fever in animals.
The number of days for Dale Romans’s suspension was brought down to seven from ten in lieu of the trainer letting go off his right to appeal for a reconsideration of the decision.
On 19th November, Free Brave finished second in a claimer’s race at Aqueduct that was raced over 1 1/16 miles on a field of twelve and became entitled to the prize money of $4, 200.
Upon the positivity of the test, Free Brave was disqualified from the race and it was demanded from the owner, Marc Holliday, that the second place purse which had been awarded to the horse, should be returned.
Besides the purse money, the New York State Racing and Wagering Board took $1,000 off Dale Romans as a fine. Under the trainer’s responsibility rule, Dale Romans has been penalized even though the trainer of the 2011 Preakness Stakes winner, Shackleford,
was not even present in New York during the incidence.
This is not the only loss that the trainer with eighty-seven wins has suffered through at the beginning of the new season rather the disappointment that he faced due to Shackleford’s miserable defeat in the seasonal debut makes other issues fade away.
Dale Romans had all his hopes associated with Shackleford, who shattered them to pieces by getting the seventh position in the Grade 1, Donn Handicap on 11th February at the Gulfstream Park, raced over a mile and a furlong. He was the 3/1 favourite
for the race.
The trainer has a widespread presence that includes stables Florida, Kentucky and New York. His stable that had been successful in making $7.6 million in 2011, was being expected to rise higher by the trainer who now seems to be in the midst of trouble.
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