New York State Supreme Court

In a unanimous decision, the State of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division Third Judicial Department, has thrown out a 14-day suspension and a $2,000 fine that was originally handed down by the Commission to Todd Pletcher after a horse he trained tested positive for an overage of phenylbutazone (bute) following a July 30, 2022 race at Saratoga, and has remanded the matter back to the New York Gaming Commission for a rehearing. The horse in question, Capensis (Tapit), finished sixth in the allowance race. In affirming Pletcher's petition in...

A New York Appellate Court has dismissed a complaint from two New York State taxpayers, Jannette Patterson and John Di Leonardo, who sought on behalf of PETA to prevent the state from loaning NYRA the $455 million it plans to use to rebuild Belmont Park. The court, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, was ruling on an appeal from the plaintiffs whose complaint was dismissed by an Albany County court in October of 2023. With the filing of the original lawsuit PETA said, in a...

Trainer Chad Brown has been sued in New York State Supreme Court in Saratoga County over an alleged domestic violence incident during the Saratoga race meet in 2022, according to the Schenectady (NY) Gazette. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning by the same woman in the incident, and alleges that Brown "intentionally attacked her, physically violently assaulting, battering, pushing, and striking her," then pushing her down a flight of stairs, choking the plaintiff and "pushing her violently out the front door." Brown was arrested August 17, 2022 and charged with...