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Kentucky Derby Trainer Charged as Part of Horse-Doping Ring
- Jason Servis’s Maximum Security was disqualified Derby winner
- Scheme involved trainers, veterinarians and drug suppliers
The trainer of a horse that finished first in last year’s Kentucky Derby before being disqualified was charged with participating in an international racehorse-doping ring.
Jason Servis, who trained the would-be Derby winner Maximum Security, was one of 27 people indicted Monday by federal prosecutors in New York. The group included trainers, veterinarians and distributors who all profited from the “callous sale and administration” of dangerous performance-enhancing drugs for horses, prosecutors said.