Chad Brown, Horse Racing Trainer, Faces Domestic Violence Charge in New York
Award-winning pureblood trainer Chad John Brown faces a domesticated force heraldic bearing after he was arrested inwards battle of Saratoga Springs, NY, on Wednesday night.
Brown, who trained this year’s Preakness victor Early Voting, appeared inwards tribunal Th and was released on $2,500 bail. He’s supercharged with outlaw blockage of breathing, a category a misdemeanour inwards New York.
If convicted, Brown could be sentenced to a yr inward jail.
According to reports, Robert Brown allegedly pushed a woman shoot down steps at his upstate New York place Wed night. He’s also accused of holding her down on the strand and choking her before forcing her come out of the house.
Brown’s attorney said inward judicature Thursday that John Brown was playacting inward self-defense after the adult female stony-broke into the house.
A indigen of New York, Robert Brown is a fixture on the purebred electric circuit in the state. Currently, races are existence held at battle of Saratoga Race Course, i of threesome tracks operated past NYRA.
“NYRA is aware of the bursting charge brought against trainer Chad Brown today and testament defer additional point out on this thing to the Saratoga Springs Police Department,” the connection said inwards a statement to Casino.org Thursday.
A four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer, John Brown is best known for his sod horses, having won a dozen Breeders’ Cup races on the grass. He’s also won the Arlington Million, one of the premier greensward races inwards the US, quatern times.
According to Equibase, in 8,882 starts, Brown’s horses make posted 2,260 wins and finished inward the money inward 5,260 races or 59.2% of the time.
PETA Sounds Off
Brown’s stop led to PETA issuing a financial statement noting this wasn’t the number 1 clip the trainer has been inward put out with authorities. In 2019, the US Department of Labor ordered him to make up $1.6 billion inward backrest pay off and penalties after the authority found he violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and provisions of the H-2B visa program.
Kathy Guillermo, the brute rights group’s senior vice president, also noted in the statement that Brown trained triad of the 9 horses that get died at Saratoga this season.
Racing needs to iron heel out all unethical, violent abusers, and New Yorkers shouldn’t experience to prop upwardly the pitilessness of this manufacture with $230 zillion inward subsidies every year,” Guillermo said.
Animal welfare groups and some New York lawmakers hold questioned why the racing industry receives millions of dollars annually. Both NYRA and New York horsemen conflict the whimsy that money is a subsidy.
Major Race Ahead for Brown
The domesticated force bearing against Brown comes simply before ace of the biggest races of the year, the Travers Stakes at Saratoga.
Brown is expected to feature a substantial presence inward the stakes race for 3-year-olds. Early Voting and Zandon, who won the Blue Gunter Grass Stakes and finished thirdly in the KY Derby, is also considered probable starters. Robert Brown may also line of business a thirdly gymnastic horse inwards the rush with Artorius, who started racing in Apr and has II wins inward leash starts.