Trainer Biancone suspended for horse medication violations
05.10.2007 20:01
Sport and Travel
- Source: USA Today
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Trainer Patrick Biancone was suspended for one year Friday by Kentucky racing officials for violations of horse medication rules.
Biancone, one of the nation's top trainers, planned to send out early favorite Irish Smoke in Friday's Darley Alcibiades — the feature race on the first day of the fall meet at Keeneland Race Course. The suspension is effective Oct. 15. Biancone, reached on a mobile phone en route to Keeneland, said he was working with his legal counsel and would issue a statement later Friday. Investigators found three vials of Alpha-Cobratoxin, a banned medication, during a June 22 search of a refrigerator at Biancone's barns at Keeneland. The medicine was in a red bag labeled with the name of his veterinarian. The vet, Dr. Rodney Stewart, is currently appealing a five-year suspension for possessing prohibited medication. Racing stewards found Biancone knew that Stewart broke the rules and failed to report it. Besides the one-year ban, Biancone received two 30-day suspensions for other medication violations. Those suspensions can be served concurrently with the Alpha-Cobratoxin violation. Biancone has 14 horses entered at Keeneland this weekend. Among others he is expected to send out are Slew's Tiznow in the Lane's End Breeders' Futurity and Asi Siempre in the Juddmonte Spinster Stakes.
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