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"Trainer Juan Pablo Silva-Pantoja (Juan Pablo Silva on Equibase) has been fined $2,500 and suspended 180 days after stewards at Turf Paradise said they believe he ran a horse named Juror in the fourth race on March 10 at the Phoenix, Ariz., track “knowing he was sore and unfit to race.”

The sanctions are for “conducting business in a manner detrimental to the best interest of horse racing” and the ruling has been forwarded to the director of the Arizona Department of Racing with recommendation for further action “up to and including revocation of license.”

Juror, sent postward in the $3,500 maiden claiming race, was bet down to a prohibitive 1-20 favorite after finishing second while carrying a $30,000 claiming price in his previous start on Feb. 1 – his first for trainer Silva and 13th race overall.

Jockey Fausto Henrique Rodrigues Da Silva pulled up Juror and took him out of the race shortly after the field broke from the starting gate in the one-mile event. He was claimed from the race by trainer Eliska Kubinova on behalf of Gary and Deborah Lusk and remains their property because Arizona does not have a voided claim rule. Claims are considered valid once a horse leaves the starting gate."