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The winning Kentucky Derby trainer. This can’t be good for public confidence. 

Horse racing: Trainer’s methods under scrutiny | The Columbus Dispatch
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2012/05/12/trainers-methods-under-scrutiny.html

Last summer, trainer Doug O’Neill was formally sanctioned after one of his racehorses at Hollywood Park in California tested positive for illegal drugs.

The year before, in 2010, O’Neill was punished for administering an illegal performance-enhancing concoction to a horse he ran in the prestigious Illinois Derby — the third time he had been accused of giving a horse what is known as a milkshake. Four months later, he was accused again of giving a milkshake to a horse in California.

Over 14 years and in four states, O’Neill received more than a dozen violations for giving horses improper drugs. O’Neill’s horses also have had a tendency to break down. According to an analysis by The New York Times, the horses he trains break down or show signs of injury at more than twice the rate of the national average.

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