Under the settlement, the defendants agreed to pay Tretter $20,000 and Tretter agreed to donate $7,500 of that sum to a racehorse adoption program. The settlement, reached in July and made public Wednesday, resulted from extensive negotiations on behalf of the bettor, Jeffrey Tretter, and the lawsuit’s two defendants - trainer Robert Bresnahan Jr. The general practice has been to reallocate the purse to other owners in the event a winning horse is later proved to have been doped but not to pay back bettors. By Associated Press, New York– Two years after filing a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, a harness-racing bettor has received $20,000 in the settlement of his claims that he was cheated out of his winnings when a doped horse won a race in New Jersey in 2016.Īfter the lawsuit was filed in March 2018, leading figures in harness racing said they had never before heard of such a lawsuit, which accused the trainer of fraud and racketeering.
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