Santa Anita Park-based trainer Mike Puype, provisionally suspended by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit this summer after the currently banned substances isoxsuprine and levothyroxine were found in his barn, was fined $1,000 by arbitrator Barbara Reeves and credited for time served. Her Dec. 12 decision formally resulted in him serving a suspension of three months and 17 days, commencing July 18 and ending Nov. 4.
According to documents posted to the HIWU website, a search of his barn yielded two expired bottles containing isoxsuprine in a blue cooler and two expired bottles containing levothyroxine found in a locked cabinet.
Isoxsuprine is a prescription vasodilator medication to help improve blood circulation and is sometimes used to treat lameness for navicular disease or laminitis. Levothyroxine is a synthetic thyroid hormone used for an underactive thyroid. The latter drug had widespread use during the prior…
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