The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday recalled the license for a coach who drew a horse with cocaine, fines him $ 5,000 and forbade him to participate in all the Nevada race over the next five years.
Alvaro Torres, the coach of a horse called Saime Pro, will be prevented from racing on all tracks during jurisdiction for Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Commissioners voted 4-0 to impose penalties in addition to those approved by the State Racing Steward Doug Ray, for the first time in history that the Commission was asked to intervene with greater penalties allowed by the Nevada game rules.
Torres was not present at the Las Vegas Commission meeting and could not be reached for comments.
Ray decided in the second race in August 24 Elko County Fair Board race in Elko won the number 6 horse trained by Torres race and its $ 7,000 handbag. The horse was submitted for drug testing, a routine procedure for the winner.
The test results indicated levels of the forbidden substance cocaine, as well as an important urine metabolite of cocaine in the urine sample after the race. As a result, the profits from the horse were redistributed to the next three post -treaters, and the state manager fined Torres $ 1,000 and canceled his Nevada horse loss for 180 days, the maximum scope of the trustee’s authority.
But the rules of the game say that the trustee can appeal to the control committee and the Commission for a larger penalty.
The Control Board on April 9 recommended that the Commission Fine Torres an additional $ 4,000 and recall his license immediately and prohibits him from applying for five years.
The Elko County Fair race is among two annual horse racing events that are authorized and monitored by the control board. The second is in Ely for agricultural district # 13 in White Pine County.
This year’s White Pine County race is planned for August 15-17 in Ely with Elko County, which plans six days racing centered around Labor Day Weekend.
Horse races are part of the county fairs and generate tourism revenue for the eastern countryside in Nevada.
In other operations, the Commission approved Licensing for Station Casino’s first Strip Sportsbook and delayed measures at a request from a former Nevada Restaurant Services Inc. CEO who met the prospect of being banned from the gaming industry.
Commissioners voted 4-0 to approve Stationskasino’s request to run sports books on Treasure Island and two Mesquite properties.
The STN sports system will make its strip shop with kioskop at Ti and in Mesquite at Casablanca and Virgin River Properties.
Commission President Jennifer Togliati said that a request to make an application for key personnel licensing for Matthew Galanti was postponed. Galanti was intended to become the head of a Dotty’s property but was dismissed for forgery of employees’ time clock and mileage, according to the control committee investigator.
The control board voted 2-1 to recommend Galanti to be denied licensing, an action that would place him on the “gray list” by denied applicants who would prevent him from being able to work with or for any licensed operator.
Galanti told the Control Board that he could not afford legal adviser to guide him by avoiding a denial. Togliati said the matter would be examined at the Commission June meeting so that Galanti could find legal representation.
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