Legal Opinion
Henriksen v. Illinois Racing Board
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided December 2, 1997No. 1-96-3925PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE McNULTY
delivered the opinion of the court:
In this case we must decide the territorial extent of the Illinois Racing Board’s (the Board’s) jurisdiction. We find its power limited to racetracks in the State of Illinois.
Per Henriksen trains and drives horses. On September 2, 1995, one of the horses he trained raced in Illinois. A laboratory discovered a foreign substance, phenytoin, in the horse’s urine after the race. Because the finding proved a violation of state rules, the Board suspended Henriksen for 15 days, from September 26 through October 10, 1995, denying him "the…
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