Marusco v. Commonwealth, State Harness Racing Commission

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Dominic Marusco, a licensed trainer, appeals from an order of the State Harness Racing Commission (Commission) suspending his license for sixty days, fining him $250 and forfeiting a purse for violating a Commission regulation relating to the duty of trainers to guard horses prior to racing against being administered drugs. We affirm.

A chemist at the Commission’s official drug testing laboratory detected the presence of a drug in the urine sample taken after racing from a horse trained by *21Marusco. Marusco appealed an indefinite suspension of his license by the judges of…