Trainer Gaines fined $1,500

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Carla Gaines has been fined $1,500 after three of her horses were treated with the ulcer medication omeprazole on the morning of scheduled starts on Jan. 11 at Santa Anita, according to a ruling published on Sunday.

Omeprazole is commonly known as Gastrogard. Lucky Stepper, Journal Entry, and Lucky Lately were withdrawn after a member of Gaines’s staff erroneously administered the medication, Gaines in a message on Twitter that day.