Hacker v. Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission (Commission) which imposed a fine of $500 upon petitioner, a horse trainer for violation of the Rules of Racing. We affirm.

Petitioner is the registered trainer of the horse Shelter Half, a two-year-old who finished first in the fifth race on December 24, 1977 at Keystone Race Track. Upon the finding of the presence of the drug phenylbutazone, an analgesic, in the urine sample of the horse taken after the race, the Board of Stewards of the race track fined petitioner $100 and…