Meadowlands Racetrack operator Jeff Gural has emerged over the past decade as a leader of an effort to eradicate doping from the sport of harness racing. And while others can only decry the illegal practice, Gural has done far more, for years banning horsemen he has concluded are “dirty.”
But last week, eight men filed a lawsuit in New York’s Northern District Court, alleging that Gural’s “boycott” of the horsemen is being done in their cases to allow him to gain competitive advantage for his own horses.
“[Gural] owns an interest in a number of horses that he races at Tioga, Vernon and/or The Meadowlands,” according to the lawsuit.
