Owner/trainer Jamen Davidovich, who testified in a New York horse doping trial on January 27 that he had previously given his horses performance-enhancing drugs, will suspended his license in Ohio pending a hearing, Ohio State Racing Commission CEO Chris Dragone said Jan.
Davidovich, 31, of Pennsylvania, raced mostly in Ohio last year at Hollywood Game at Mahoning Valley Race Course and Thistledown with regular openings in New York, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. The coach’s last start was on January 8 at Aqueduct race track when Flatter me please finished fifth in a race allowance for him there. Davidovich also owns the horse.
“Jamen will now have his license suspended,” Dragone said. “Managers are working on it right now and we’ll be contacting him to schedule a hearing, but his license will be suspended and he’ll be put on a ‘stop list’ when it’s over. end of the day.”
Mastering trainers Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro also had their licenses suspended by the regulator when they were indicted in the horse doping case.
Regulators across the US respect the sanctions of other regulators through reciprocity.
In testimony Thursday during the trial of veterinarian Seth Fishman, Davidovich, who is immune from prosecution, told the jury Fishman began providing him with PEDs after a restaurant meeting where one of the His master was also present.
When asked by prosecutor Anden Chow how the subject of PEDs was, Davidovich replied: “We are talking about different things to make the horse run better.”
Davidovich testified that he stopped doping horses in 2018, saying he “wants to move forward in a different way.” He said he now approaches the sport more as a hobby.
He is one of two coaches to testify in court on Thursday, the other being belt coach Adrienne Hall.
Dragone said a hearing date has yet to be set.
“I knew we were going to meet, talk about where we were going from here, but obviously we were pretty nervous about what was revealed,” he said.
