Horse Racing
GRANTVILLE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania horse trainer was charged Wednesday with trying to rig races at Penn National Race Course by injecting horses with performance-enhancing drugs.
CATSKILL, N.Y. - Thoroughbred breeder and former Wall Street executive Ernie Paragallo, who has earned more than $20 million in purses in 20 years of racing, was led away in handcuffs Tuesday after being sentenced to up to 2 years in jail and a $33,000 fine for mistreating dozens of horses on his Hudson Valley farm.
CATSKILL, N.Y. - Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm.
WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday granted horse-track owner Magna Entertainment Corp.
CATSKILL, N.Y. - The 177 horses seized in a raid of an upstate New York farm last year were malnourished, a prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of the trial of the farm's owner, a prominent thoroughbred horse breeder who was banned from racing.
