Methamphetamine Positive Lands Gorder 14-Month Suspension
Apr 22, 2015 14:30:52 GMT -5
Post by racinggal on Apr 22, 2015 14:30:52 GMT -5
It never stops. Money is such a motivator. I wish the health of the horses was more important. If he appeals, can he still race? Can he go to another state? Or will the horses run in an assistant's name?
Methamphetamine Positive Lands Gorder 14-Month Suspension
by Ray Paulick
Trainer Kellyn Gorder has been suspended one year and fined $5,000 by Kentucky Horse Racing Commission stewards after the discovery of methamphetamine in Bourbon Warfare, a 3-year-old Colonel John filly owned by Bourbon Lane Stable who finished first in a maiden special weight race at Churchill Downs Nov. 22, 2014.
Gorder was suspended an additional 60 days when a barn search at Keeneland on Dec. 27, the day Gorder was notified of the methamphetamine positive, turned up injectable medications, syringes, needles and oral medications not properly labeled.
Gorder is appealing the suspension and is represented by Lexington attorney Mike Meuser.
The drug, classified by the Association of Racing Commissioners International as Class 1, was detected in a blood sample by LGC Science in Lexington and a split sample confirmed by the Maddy Laboratory at the University of California-Davis.
Methamphetamine is a term used to describe a widely abused stimulant street drug, but it is also sold under the brand name Desoxyn to treat obsesity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in humans.
Gorder believes contamination caused the positive test.
Methamphetamine Positive Lands Gorder 14-Month Suspension
by Ray Paulick
Trainer Kellyn Gorder has been suspended one year and fined $5,000 by Kentucky Horse Racing Commission stewards after the discovery of methamphetamine in Bourbon Warfare, a 3-year-old Colonel John filly owned by Bourbon Lane Stable who finished first in a maiden special weight race at Churchill Downs Nov. 22, 2014.
Gorder was suspended an additional 60 days when a barn search at Keeneland on Dec. 27, the day Gorder was notified of the methamphetamine positive, turned up injectable medications, syringes, needles and oral medications not properly labeled.
Gorder is appealing the suspension and is represented by Lexington attorney Mike Meuser.
The drug, classified by the Association of Racing Commissioners International as Class 1, was detected in a blood sample by LGC Science in Lexington and a split sample confirmed by the Maddy Laboratory at the University of California-Davis.
Methamphetamine is a term used to describe a widely abused stimulant street drug, but it is also sold under the brand name Desoxyn to treat obsesity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in humans.
Gorder believes contamination caused the positive test.
