“Scandal Rocks Racing World as Two-Year-Old Champion Forte Tests Positive for Banned Substances”

2023-05-10 01:54:38

To add another chapter to the novel that surrounds the two-year-old champion Forte, this Tuesday night it was learned that the specimen trained by Todd Pletcher is involved in a scandal for the use of prohibited drugs.

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The New York Times newspaper reported that Forte “came out on fire” following triumphing on September 5 in 2022 in the Hopeful Stakes (G1), a classic for two-year-olds over 1,400 meters (7 Furlongs).

FORTE 🇺🇲 son of VIOLENCE; bests favorite GULFPORT 🠇 ºðŸ ‡ ² to win Grade 1 from him in the 7F of the Hopeful Stakes G1, closing out the Saratoga rally.

He rode Irad Ortiz for Todd Pletcher.

Cost $110,000 as a yearling at Keeneland September 2021
📽️ @TheNYRApic.twitter.com/Vmh5YzwRm9

— Luis E. Caraballo G. (@luis_ernestocg) September 6, 2022

“A prohibited substance that reduces pain and inflammation was used on the specimen” New York Racing Commission officials declared. The $165,000 prize for first place was withheld by authorities.

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However, the journalist Joe Drape of the New York Times, cited that the officials of the Racing Commission informed him that the dissemination of the news is made public on these dates due to “the constant procedural delays by the coach’s lawyers”.

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Owned by Mike Repole and Vincent Viola, Forte did not race the Kentucky Derby (G1) due to a veterinary ruling by the Kentucky Racing Commission. In fact, the horse remains on a 14-day mandatory list that prevents him from participating in the Preakness Stakes (G1), the second classic of the Triple Crown.

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