The Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Company License Overview Committee unanimously voted to grant Kentucky racing licenses to Cody Axmaker and Troy Wismer, who’ve troubled histories within the sport as house owners and trainers.
One other coach who had sought to have a license granted, Murray Rojas, withdrew her software when she was knowledgeable by the committee chairman Greg Harbut that she was “virtually sure” to have her license request denied. Such a denial may have impacted her licensing in different states. She has raced this yr in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Arizona.
Axmaker, Wismer, and Rojas have all been ensnarled in authorized or regulatory issues.
Axmaker was suspended in New Jersey after one among his horses died from an obvious clenbuterol overdose after being by accident fed it at Monmouth Park in Could 2021, the coach beforehand instructed BloodHorse.
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“I served my suspension, paid my fines, and have been working exhausting to rebuild,” he instructed the committee.
The committee’s approval of Wismer’s software was contingent upon Wismer submitting to random alcohol and drug testing and offering the KHRGC with proof of completion of his court-ordered misdemeanor and felony diversion situations.
Rojas took challenge with the committee’s determination to ask her to withdraw, noting the US Supreme Courtroom in 2022 vacated the conviction in opposition to her on drug misbranding expenses at Penn Nationwide Race Course.
“You guys maintain me responsible,” she mentioned.
