Bloodhorse.com | by Dick Downey | 03-07-2024
Agreement: CHRB to Order Justify DQ, Pay Ruis $300,000:
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-rac...y-ruis-300-000
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Ruis sued the CHRB in 2020 seeking to have Justify disqualified and Bolt d'Oro declared the winner after a report in the New York Times surfaced revealing Justify tested positive for scopolamine, a prohibited substance, in a post-race sample. Ruis owned and trained Bolt d'Oro. The agreed settlement was made public in filings made in that case.
The suit was precipitated because the CHRB decided not to take action in a closed meeting...
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I realize this was posted in its own thread:
http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/s...d.php?t=181359
I'm cross posting it here because:
1. It involves Baffert.
2. The CHRB treated Baffert differently from other trainers.
They voted to sweep Justify's positive test under the rug in a meeting that was closed to the public in violation of California's
Brown Act.
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The Brown Act or “Open Meeting Law” is officially known as the Ralph M. Brown Act and is found in the California Government Code § 54950 et seq. 1. The Brown Act was enacted in 1953 to guarantee the public’s right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies, and as a response to growing concerns about local government officials’ practice of holding secret meetings that were not in compliance with advance public notice requirements. The Brown Act is pivotal in making public officials accountable for their actions and in allowing the public to participate in the decision making process.
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Imo, Ruis never should have been made to wait this long.
-jp
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