ANDY SHETLER/JAMAL WILLIAMS

[Jctoronto]

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Trainer suspended for 400 days, fined $3,000


9 December 2023. by Steve Wolf
It may have taken more than a year to conclude the findings, but the end result is that harness racing trainer Andy Shetler, having already served a 90-day suspension, has been tacked on with an additional 400-day suspension and a $3,000 fine by the Indiana Racing Commission.

Back in June 2022, Shetler was discovered on video injecting horses with hypodermic needles multiple times on association grounds at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. He was also found to have procession of hypodermic needles, syringes and injectable drugs. It was not known yet if the additional fine and suspension has been appealed.

Also, after two years of deliberation, trainer Jamal Williams was fined $1,000 and suspended for 180 days by the Indiana Racing Commission for oral administration of substances to three different horses at Harrah’s Hooser Park on December 2, 2021.

There were also numerous positive test results reported by Racing Commissions to the USTA.

Positive tests were found for Albuterol, Aninocaproic Acid, Capsaicin, Firocoxib, Furosemide, Glycopyrrolate, Hydroxydantrolene, Levamisole, Methamphetamine, Methocarbamol and TCO2.

Fines ranged as high as $1,000 and suspensions as long as 60 days.

To see the complete report submitted to the USTA, click here.

To see fines and suspensions from Canada, click here.

by Steve Wolf, for Harnesslink

[Harness racer]

Wasn't Williams another HT guy?

[White Rabbit]

When Mccummbers groom got caught their sentences was pretty lean. That was the year I just happened to be out there and they didn’t even get a slap on the wrist, justices is swift depending on who gets caught

[Six Pence]

I posted on this topic as it related to the blatant inequities in the penalties imposed by the Indiana Racing Commission a few months ago.  It was immediately taken down by whomever.  It was a little lengthy because I pulled two examples from the USTA  weekly fines and suspensions list.  Indiana can be very verbose in their rulings.  I may have stepped on the toes of the administrator of this sight or I may have had bad breath, who Knows? The point was and is, favoritism is at play at Hoosier Park much like some other tracks, and it will ruin a track as fast or faster than any other indiscretion.

[bello]

HISA is the only solution.

[dinkadoo]

Whatever he gave, he had win, fourth and fifth.


WILLIAMS, JAMAL L STARKVILLE, MS YOB 1997
HoP on 12/2/2021 FINED: $1,000
FULL - 180 DAYS, 12/4/2023 THRU 5/31/2024
HORSE DISQUALIFIED - PLACED 10, PURSE
REDISTRIBUTION
MEDICATION PROCEDURE VIOLATION
71 IAC 8-1-1.5(b)(3) Based on the unanimous adoption of the Administrative Law Judge’s
Proposed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Non-Final Order by the members of
the Indiana Horse Racing Commission at its November 30, 2023, meeting, Mr. Williams is
suspended for a period one hundred eighty (180) days beginning on December 4, 2023,
through May 31, 2024, and fined a total of $1,000.00 for violations contained in
Administrative Complaint No. 222002, which include oral administration of substances,
foreign or otherwise, to multiple horses on race day. During the period of this suspension
Mr. Williams is denied access to all grounds under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Horse
Racing Commission. The horse "PRESCOTTS HOPE" is ordered unplaced from race 3 of
December 2, 2021 at Harrah`s Hoosier Park, and all purse monies earned be forfeited,
returned, and redistributed pursuant to the provisions of 71 IAC 8-1-2(b) as follows:
PRESCOTTS HOPE finished first placed unplaced FOX VALLEY SAMPSON finished
second placed first FLASY DUDE finished third placed second DOJEA ROCK finished
fourth placed third THE BUCKET finished fifth placed fourth EVERGREEN ELITE finished
sixth placed fifth FIFTY FLAT finished seventh placed sixth GAZING STAR finished eighth
placed seventh
HoP on 12/2/2021 HORSE DISQUALIFIED - PLACED 9, PURSE
REDISTRIBUTION
MEDICATION PROCEDURE VIOLATION
71 IAC 8-1-1.5(b)(3) Based on the unanimous adoption of the Administrative Law Judge’s
Proposed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Non-Final Order by the members of
the Indiana Horse Racing Commission at its November 30, 2023, meeting, Mr. Williams is
suspended for a period one hundred eighty (180) days beginning on December 4, 2023,
through May 31, 2024, and fined a total of $1,000.00 for violations contained in
Administrative Complaint No. 222002, which include oral administration of substances,
foreign or otherwise, to multiple horses on race day. During the period of this suspension
Mr. Williams is denied access to all grounds under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Horse
Racing Commission. The horse "THE BUCKET" is ordered unplaced from race 3 of
December 2, 2021 at Harrah`s Hoosier Park, and all purse monies earned be forfeited,
returned, and redistributed pursuant to the provisions of 71 IAC 8-1-2(b) as follows: THE
BUCKET finished fifth placed fourth placed unplaced EVERGREEN ELITE finished sixth
placed fifth placed fourth FIFTY FLAT finished seventh placed sixth placed fifth GAZING
STAR finished eighth placed seventh placed sixth
HoP on 12/2/2021 HORSE DISQUALIFIED - PLACED 10, PURSE
REDISTRIBUTION
MEDICATION PROCEDURE VIOLATION
71 IAC 8-1-1.5(b)(3) Based on the unanimous adoption of the Administrative Law Judge’s
Proposed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Non-Final Order by the members of
the Indiana Horse Racing Commission at its November 30, 2023, meeting, Mr. Williams is
suspended for a period one hundred eighty (180) days beginning on December 4, 2023,
through May 31, 2024, and fined a total of $1,000.00 for violations contained in
Administrative Complaint No. 222002, which include oral administration of substances,
foreign or otherwise, to multiple horses on race day. During the period of this suspension
Mr. Williams is denied access to all grounds under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Horse
Racing Commission. The horse "A SHAM OF AMBER" is ordered unplaced from race 10 of
December 2, 2021 at Harrah`s Hoosier Park, and all purse monies earned be forfeited,
returned, and redistributed pursuant to the provisions of 71 IAC 8-1-2(b) as follows: A
SHAM OF AMBER finished fifth placed unplaced KITTY HOYNE finished sixth placed fifth
POCO`S LISA finished seventh placed sixth HOW ABOUT MURPH finished eighth placed
seventh