OMAHA, Neb.—An attorney for a horse trainer suspended for three years for allegedly injecting horses with banned painkillers is asking the Nebraska State Racing Commission to reconsider the punishment.
Mike Kelley said Thursday that he filed the motion with the commission on behalf of David Anderson.
Two of Anderson’s horses that finished second in their races at Horsemen’s Park in Omaha in July 2009 tested positive for oxycodone and oxymorphone. Anderson was suspended and fined in Iowa in September for a similar infraction.
Kelley said Anderson wouldn’t have knowingly injected easily detectable painkillers or risk losing purse money if caught.
Kelley said Anderson, who passed a lie-detector test, was the victim of “sabotage” in both the Nebraska and Iowa cases.
