The system the state attempted to implement for testing harness race horses for performance-enhancing drugs is unfairly onerous and oversteps the state Racing and Wagering Board’s powers to regulate New York’s seven harness tracks, a judge has concluded.

Acting Supreme Court Justice Mark L. Powers in Schenectady County (See Profile) found the Out-of-Competition Testing Rules “so lacking in reason as to require nullification in their entirety.”

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