I recently went on two road trips with our trainer, first to the Meadows for a SS. , I think the purse was 40 something. Pulled up to the stable gate and two commission officers instructed us that they would be searching our truck n trailer. While in the barn area I asked a local trainer about searching. They said it happens all the time.
Onto Batavia racetrack for a SS , purse 100,00 or something, we weren’t in that but the stallion series but both on the same card. No searching by commission officers.
While in the paddock I was talking with a local trainer and told them about my experience in PA and asked if that’s occurs here , they said never.
I find the different protocols perplexing from one state to the next.