Jeffrey Englehart Suspended 10 Days for Bute Positive
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Horses break from the gate at Aqueduct Racetrack
Owner/trainer Jeffrey Englehart has been suspended 10 days and fined $1,000 by the New York State Gaming Commission after a post-race sample from his horse Runningwscissors, taken after a stakes race earlier this year, tested positive for Phenylbutazone.
Englehart waived his right to appeal, according to the NYSGC ruling. He will serve his suspension March 15-24.
Runningwscissors' post-race sample containing the presence of Phenylbutazone was taken after the 5-year-old gelding finished third in the Jan. 9 Say Florida Sandy Stakes, a seven-furlong event for New York-breds at Aqueduct Racetrack. Runningwscissors is disqualified from the Say Florida Sandy and his $12,000 share of the purse will be forfeited and redistributed.
Phenylbutazone, commonly known as Bute, is an analgesic and anti-inflammatory commonly used to treat soreness of equines. The Association of Racing Commissioners International's Uniform Classification Guidelines for Foreign Substances and Recommended Penalties Model Rule lists Phenylbutazone as a Class 4, Penalty C drug.
Since the Say Florida Sandy, Runningwscissors has won a Feb. 21 allowance race and finished fourth in a March 13 allowance optional claimer. Both races were at Aqueduct.
Englehart, who has been training since 2013 according to Equibase statistics, has won four races from 26 starts during Aqueduct's current winter meet, which began Dec. 10 and continues through March 28 prior to the April 1-18 spring meet.