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Trainer Tom Amoss is serving 15 days of a 60-day suspension and has been fined $5,000 after reaching a settlement agreement with the Indiana Horse Racing Commission (IHRC) for a positive post-race equine drug test that turned up the Class 3/Penalty Level B substance sotalol in one of his winning trainees at Horseshoe Indianapolis on Oct. 17, 2022. The Paulick Report first reported the penalties Tuesday, with Amoss declining to comment. According to the American Association of Equine Practitioners, sotalol in its oral form "is increasingly being used in equine...

One day after learning he had been exonerated by split-sample test results that negated an original "ridiculous" finding of three serious drug violations in a single mare who won a Nov. 24 race at Delta Downs, trainer Karl Broberg told TDN that Louisiana State Racing Commission (LSRC) officials turned down his offer to have the mare's hair tested while the case was being adjudicated to prove that no Class 1 and 2 drugs were in the system of Tiz One Fee (Tiz the One). Broberg also said the LSRC has...