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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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3 0 - 1 2 - 2 0 0 4 Horse trainers indicted on tax evasion, drug charges
Asbury Park Press, 12/30/04
A state grand jury has indicted Richard Chansky Jr., an Ocean County man who is a former harness racing trainer at Freehold Raceway and other tracks, on six counts of tax evasion and one count of possession of a controlled substance.
Chansky is charged with possession of anabolic steroids and failing to file corporate and state tax returns.
A man whom Chansky hired as an assistant trainer, Kevin Goodell, was also named in the indictment. Goodell is charged with receiving stolen property, which is listed in the indictment as $80,000 worth of Epogen and Neupogen, drugs that stimulate blood cells.
The indictment does not state if the drugs were used for performance enhancement or as a masking agent for other substances in the horses trained by Chansky and Goodell.
Horses trained by Chansky won 70 races at the Meadowlands Racetrack in 2000, the third-highest mark at the East Rutherford track in that season, according to track statistics.
The indictment of Chansky and Goodell was handed up by a state grand jury in Trenton on Dec. 20. It states that the criminal activities were based at a Plumsted farm in the months leading up to April 2002.
Chansky, who could not be reached for comment, is out of racing. He was suspended by the state Racing Commission, which regulates the sport, following a 2001 search of his home and stable by commission investigators who reported that several marked and unmarked vials of medication and syringes were found.
The commission later moved to revoke Chansky's training license after a hearing by Administrative Law Judge Joseph F. Martone.
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