Famed trainer Jason Servis is among those accused of doping his horses, including Maximum Security, who briefly won last year’s Kentucky Derby.
According to a February phone call that prosecutors say was made between trainers Nicholas Surick and Michael Tannuzzo, several of Navarro’s horses died and had to “disappear.”
Among the horses alleged to have been injected with performance-enhancing drugs was Navarro’s racehorse XY Jet, whichJockey Luis Saez rides Maximum Security near the finish line of the $20 million Saudi Cup at King Abdul Aziz race track in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 29. William F. Sweeney Jr., the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the New York office, said the allegations against the defendants “amounted to nothing less than abuse.”
Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, said that the allegations “are likely just the tip of the iceberg” for an industry that needs far more regulation.“Congress needs to pass theto improve the welfare of racehorses throughout the country and bring the industry into the modern century.”
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