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Sports Briefs: Trainer Dutrow facing suspension over Clenbuterol
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Published: June 26, 2008
NEW YORK -- Rick Dutrow, the trainer of Big Brown, is facing a 15-day suspension by Kentucky horse-racing officials after another that horse he trains exceeded the allowable limit for a drug that increases lung capacity.
Dutrow has 10 days to appeal the suspension, said John Veitch, the chief state steward of the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority. Salute the Count twice tested positive for twice the allowable level of Clenbuterol after finishing second in the Aegon Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs on May 2, one day before Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby.
Dutrow waived his right to a hearing but plans to file a written appeal, which he must do within the next 10 days. There's no timetable on when the appeal will be heard, Veitch said.
Clenbuterol, often used by humans who suffer from asthma, has become popular in horse racing because it can increase lung capacity. Although its use is allowed, under Kentucky racing guidelines, the drug cannot be administered 72 hours before a race.
The penalty is the first for Dutrow in Kentucky. He will not be fined, but the owner of Salute the Count will have to return $20,000 in purse winnings.
More horse racing
■ Jockey Jeremy Rose apologized yesterday for striking his mount in the head with a whip, a day after he was given a six-month suspension at Delaware Park in Stanton.
Rose, who won the 2005 Preakness and Belmont Stakes aboard Afleet Alex, was suspended for striking Appeal to the City during Monday's third race. The horse had some hemorrhaging around one eye. She was sent to the New Bolton Center for an examination and was set to return yesterday to trainer Howard Wolfendale's barn. Wolfendale said that the horse's vision was not seriously impaired and he believed this was an accident.
Rose will not ride until an appeal on the Delaware Park stewards' decision is heard July 22.
Basketball
■ Geno Auriemma has signed a contract that would keep him as Connecticut's women's coach through 2013.
The five-year, $8 million deal begins July 1, the university said yesterday.
It includes a base salary of $300,000 in the first year. That amount will increase by $25,000 annually throughout the contract.
Besides his base salary, Auriemma, a member of the Hall of Fame, will receive $1.1 million in the first year of the contract for speaking and media appearances. That amount will increase by $75,000 annually throughout the contract.
■ Duquesne has rewarded Coach Ron Everhart for turning around one of the worst Division I men's basketball programs, giving him a three-year contract extension through the 2013-14 season.
Duquesne hadn't had a winning season since 1993-94 until it went 17-13 last season.
Soccer
■ Carlos Bocanegra, the captain of the U.S. men's soccer team, has signed with the French club Rennes after five seasons with Fulham in the English Premier League.
■ Philipp Lahm ended Turkey's storybook run in the European Championship yesterday with a late goal that gave Germany a 3-2 victory and a chance at a record fourth title.
Semih Senturk kept Turkey in the game with an 86th-minute equalizer, a goal that came six minutes after Miroslav Klose scored to give Germany a 2-1 lead. Lahm finished off the Turks off a give-and-go with Thomas Hitzlsperger in the 90th minute.
■ Chelsea, the English Premier League soccer club, is developing a series of soccer schools, coaching clinics and exchange programs across the United States in an attempt to spur interest in the game among young Americans.
One of the clubs first events will be a Chelsea Sevens tournament in Raleigh for U10 to U18 boys and girls teams.
Hockey
■ The Florida Panthers have made qualifying offers to seven of their restricted free agents.
General Manager Jacques Martin said yesterday that the team made offers to Jay Bouwmeester, Gregory Campbell, Drew Larman, Martin Lojek, Stefan Meyer, Rostislav Olesz and Anthony Stewart.
The Panthers didn't extend qualifying offers to three of their restricted free agents -- Garth Murray, Adam Taylor and Martin Tuma.
■ The Vancouver Canucks claimed forward Kyle Wellwood off waivers yesterday in an effort to bolster an offense that struggled to score last season.
Wellwood, a restricted free agent, is coming off a disappointing season (eight goals, 13 assists) with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
■ The San Jose Sharks got off to a head start on their offseason moves, re-signing forwards Joe Pavelski and Jeremy Roenick and backup goaltender Brian Boucher before the start of the free-agency period.
Pavelski signed a two-year contract yesterday after posting 19 goals and 21 assists in his second NHL season.
Roenick came out of semiretirement to join the Sharks last season and had 14 goals and 19 assists. He enjoyed his time enough to want to come back for a 20th season. Roenick, 38, has 509 career goals, the second most for an American-born player.
Boucher also signed a one-year deal and is expected to get more playing time as the backup to Evgeni Nabokov next season.
■ The Phoenix Coyotes acquired right winger. Brian McGrattan from the Ottawa Senators yesterday, trading a fifth-round pick in the 2009 NHL Draft.
McGrattan, 26, recorded three assists and 46 penalty minutes in 38 games with the Senators last season. He's played with Ottawa since the 2005-2006 season, when he set career highs by making two goals and three assists in 60 games.
Miscellaneous
■ Noel Ruebel, the track-and-field coach at Forsyth Country Day School, had a runner-up finish in his division at last weekend's USA Track and Field Masters Decathlon championships in Joplin, Mo.
Ruebel, competing in the 50-54-year-olds division, finished with 6,057 points, trailing Bill Murray of Birmingham, Ala., by 314 points.
■ Herb Appenzeller, Lynne Agee, Jeff Bostic, Joe Bostic, Dick Kemp, Danny Manning, Bodie McDowell, Ken Rush and the late Pep Young will be inducted into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame on Sept. 22 in ceremonies at the Greensboro Coliseum.
Appenzeller spent 40 years at Guilford College as a professor and athletics administrator; Agee is 566-280 in 30 seasons as a women's basketball coach, including 27 at UNC Greensboro; the Bostics were offensive linemen at Greensboro Smith, Clemson and in the NFL; and Kemp played prep football in High Point and was an assistant coach at Duke and N.C. State and a head coach at High Point Central, Southwest Guilford, Glenn and other high schools.
Manning played basketball at Greensboro Page, Kansas and in the NBA; McDowell was a longtime outdoors writer and editor at the News & Record of Greensboro; Rush had a long career as a race-car driver, with wins at Bowman Gray Stadium, the old Greensboro Fairgrounds, Bristol, Talladega, Michigan and Dover; and Young played 10 seasons of major-league baseball in the 1930s and early ‘40s.
■ Officials at Indianapolis Motor Speedway still want to hold the U.S. Grand Prix but might need another year to get it back.
When Formula One released its provisional 2009 schedule yesterday, a race at Indianapolis was not on the list. The mid-June weekend after the Canadian Grand Prix, a previous date for the U.S. race, was left blank on the schedule, a strong indication that F1 officials plan to skip racing in the U.S. for the second straight year. Ron Green, a spokesman for the speedway, said: "Discussions will continue. We believe a return of Formula One to our calendar, especially during our centennial era, the period between 2009-2011, would be appropriate…."
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