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Fuguzzi

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« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2023, 04:56:53 PM »
Steve Elliot and Jake Lemmon - Glaucine had 20-30 positives in NY.  It was not contamination.  Vet was using from the farms as a breathing shot but likely none of the trainers actually knew it was glaucine.  It was all coming from Seth Fishman.  NY trainer was Scott DiDomenico.  Any other questions?
The NY trainer my associate was referring to absolutely was not Scott Didomenico. I know who it is now and wont say who. I will say he was smaller time than Scott. Upstate NY based and heavy into the Sire Stakes.

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« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2023, 04:58:46 PM »
And  Richard Johnson had the 3 horses with the highest test. Any guess who he was fronting for at the time??
I thought it was a french canadian, but then again I think i am wrong. On the tip of my tongue.......

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« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2023, 05:07:50 PM »
I think Johnson fronted for Richie Banca for a while,  among others.  Don't know if it's him you are referring to but considering where Banca is ....

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« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2023, 05:12:28 PM »
I think Johnson fronted for Richie Banca for a while,  among others.  Don't know if it's him you are referring to but considering where Banca is ....
Yeah , forget my FR, Canadian thing   I was thinking Banca/Croghan but didn't want to say until i thought I was right or close to right ngc3

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« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2023, 05:31:50 PM »
I think Johnson fronted for Richie Banca for a while,  among others.  Don't know if it's him you are referring to but considering where Banca is ....
Jen B.  Became a trainer when they thought Richie was going down for a bit because of the  Glaucine

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« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2023, 08:05:02 PM »
After a bit of soul searching, I have decided to post something I was told several years ago mostly because so many of my friends ( and Foes ) on here have excellent recall, stores of information, names, dates, etc. So, if any of you ever heard the story I am about to tell or better yet can confirm with more details if it is indeed true, I would appreciate it as the source from which I heard it, a former associate in racing is no longer available to speak with and recent events have gotten me thinking about it again.
w if anyone else heard of this before
One more thing, I AM NOT MAKING ANYTHING UP, nor I am trying to "grind the same dull axe", just wanna know if anyone else heard of this....

Late 2018, a person i knew for decades from racing, approached me at monti and said , "Hey, did you hear the shit about Linda and some of the guys they just caught in NY?" I was like , NO. I had no idea what he was talking about.

Without going into quote for quote, this is what he told me in essence.

A NYS trainer of some success and notoriety, not a world beather was caught for something serious and looking at a year suspension. This man's last name starts with a "D", active in NYSS especially. It may have been Duspiva, I don't think it was Dewhurst and on my life I cant remember who it was. So I wont mention more names. Apparently, Linda was also caught and was facing a year too, but having been announced into the HOF, apparently NYSRWB capitulated to the USTA and her infraction was buried. It seems Goshen was not about to put their first female ever in the HOF under a 1 year suspension and having been a new electee they were not about to tarnish her name.

Now getting back to the NY trainer, he and another facing a heavy suspension got wind of this "scandal" and hired 2 attorneys, 1 may have been from inside racing and the other was not and started lawsuits against NY, the tracks, judges etc. because there infractions were being upheld. Eventually without actual litigation, NY caved to everyone and everything was swept under the rug and this trainer facing a year got a huge break because if he and others went, Linda was gonna have to go too and the powers that be were not gonna do that. i'm not sure what to think and mt friend is no longer here...

Has anyone ever heard anything like this or know more details?

Thanks, Fug

I think years ago Linda had a positive on the sheep wormer. Got maybe a fine of $500 or a $1,000 and a few days.  Wrote a letter that was published in one of the trade journals apologizing to people.   Who worms horses 1 or 2 days before racing ???

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« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2023, 08:27:47 PM »
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« Reply #22 on: September 24, 2023, 09:16:17 PM »
I think years ago Linda had a positive on the sheep wormer. Got maybe a fine of $500 or a $1,000 and a few days.  Wrote a letter that was published in one of the trade journals apologizing to people.   Who worms horses 1 or 2 days before racing ???

Nobody was using it for worming. It showed up in some other shit.

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« Reply #23 on: September 24, 2023, 09:39:47 PM »
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« Reply #24 on: September 24, 2023, 11:43:53 PM »
I think years ago Linda had a positive on the sheep wormer. Got maybe a fine of $500 or a $1,000 and a few days.  Wrote a letter that was published in one of the trade journals apologizing to people.   Who worms horses 1 or 2 days before racing ???

Levamisole is the sheep wormer. A few studies show that it can metabolize as Aminorex. Most do not. If the sheep wormer was to blame every broke ass trainer in NA would have got a positive. We all used it as an immune booster.  It worked great. And was cheap

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« Reply #25 on: September 25, 2023, 02:14:18 PM »
Linda Toscano had a glaucine positive. It was buried like all the others. Why the Feds didn't step in is anyones's guess. Wood shaving excuse was complete bullshit.

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« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2023, 05:57:57 PM »
Linda Toscano had a glaucine positive. It was buried like all the others. Why the Feds didn't step in is anyones's guess. Wood shaving excuse was complete bullshit.
  Appreciate you confirmation. they shoved her fat ass in the HOF and a few guys caught a major break in the process. Without drugs, Lachance and a world class assistant she couldn't train a ball to roll down hill. Her career was floundering back in the day and then Lachance, ahem.... "stepped"in.

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« Reply #27 on: September 25, 2023, 06:12:50 PM »
Pump the brake my man,
What I was pointing out was that NJC thought that when they started testing for it , it would be a bunch of desperado trainers, not all the fine up standing trainers they caught.

Oh it was a who's who of top ten trainers.....

 

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