Todd Pletcher - Drug Suspension

Drug Suspension

One of Pletcher's horses was found to have an anesthetic, mepivicaine, on August 14, 2004. Mepivicaine can numb pain in horses. For the positive test, Pletcher was given a 45 day suspension from training at any thoroughbred track in the United States. Pletcher was also fined $3,000 and the purse money was redistributed. Pletcher appealed the suspension, based on the fact that the mepivicaine was administered by a veterinarian who was treating the horse with an antibiotic two weeks prior to race but it was upheld.

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