{"id":1050187,"date":"2026-06-25T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1050187\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:59:15","slug":"todd-pletcher-appeal-rejected-in-forte-suspension-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1050187\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Pletcher Appeal Rejected In Forte Suspension Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Todd Pletcher has been blocked from rearguing or appealing his 10-day suspension from the New York State Gaming Commission, leaving the Hall of Fame trainer serving the ban tied to Forte\u2019s 2022 Hopeful Stakes positive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New York State Gaming Commission is everything that is wrong with horse racing regulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Repole Stable (@RepoleStable) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepoleStable\/status\/2067634065277346151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ruling, reported on Thursday, keeps in place a sanction that began on June 18 and is due to run through June 27. Pletcher was also fined $1,000 after Forte, the 2022 champion juvenile, tested positive for meloxicam following his Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes win at Saratoga.<\/p>\n<p>The case matters because it lands at a sensitive point in the US medication debate. The positive came before the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority\u2019s Anti-Doping and Medication Control programme took over national adjudication, so the New York State Gaming Commission remained responsible for the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Pletcher Case Stays With New York Regulator<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/paulickreport.com\/news\/trainer-todd-pletchers-appeal-of-10-day-suspension-disallowed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paulick Report\u2019s account of the court decision<\/a>, horses previously trained by Pletcher are entered this weekend under assistant trainers Anthony Sciametta Jr. and Steven Hampson.<\/p>\n<p>Forte\u2019s disqualification from the Hopeful and the handling of the old medication case have already drawn sharp criticism from the horse\u2019s connections, but the latest decision removes Pletcher\u2019s immediate route to reopen the suspension before it expires.<\/p>\n<p>For a trainer of Pletcher\u2019s profile, the sporting impact is brief. The wider consequence is regulatory: another high-profile pre-HISA case remains a reminder of how long historic positives can shadow major American racing operations.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Pletcher has been blocked from rearguing or appealing his 10-day suspension from the New York State Gaming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[70491,288,288566,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1050187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-forte","tag-horse-racing","tag-new-york-state-gaming-commission","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116813467710508803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}