Trainer who won £7.3m in world’s richest race yet to receive cash one year on due to alleged role in mass doping scheme
THE trainer who won £7.3million in the world's richest race is still yet to receive the money due to his alleged involvement in a mass doping scheme.
Jason Servis' Maximum Security won the Saudi Cup in Riyadh in February last year.
But the following month he was at the centre of a scandal that saw 27 people charged for allegedly doping racehorses.
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Maximum Security, who has since retired, was one of the horses allegedly drugged.
The horse also won the 2019 Kentucky Derby but was disqualified after stewards ruled he interfered with two other horses.
The charges, filed in New York, alleged American Servis, 63, doped 'virtually all the racehorses under his control'.
Maximum Security's owner Gary West subsequently fired Servis and moved the horse to legendary trainer Bob Baffert.
The prize money for tenth to second place has been paid out for the 2020 race but the big winner's cheque remains 'in a hold position'.
Prince Bandar bin Khalid Al Faisal, Jockey Cub chairman of Saudi Arabia, said: "We understand in the coming six weeks there will be some kind of movement on (Servis' case) which will allow us to move forward on it and bring this to a close.
"I feel we don't have long to wait for it.
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"But we have to abide by the international rules and regulations.
"Someone will get the prize money. We paid out all of the other positions.
"I feel within the next six weeks, hopefully, we’ll put this issue to a close."
Irish jockey David Egan scooped top prize on Mishriff this year.
But the 21-year-old Irishman was fined around £71,000 and banned for two days for breaking whip rules during the race.
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