The Davis Family: MNR's Parasite

by Ralph the Cat

I heard that Mountaineer's facebook page was taking a lot of heat from horse activist groups for not enforcing their "no slaughter" policy. I couldn't help but want to check out what all the bickering was about. I started scrolling down the page reading tons of he said, she said, bickering about horse slaughtering. Mountaineer didn't do much policing, but surprisingly they actually commented on some of the posts. As I scroll back up to the top of the page I see a recent post, added just seconds ago, it was from a horseplayer. It read something along the lines of, I have a $20 win ticket on Justice Express, from August 20th, he ran 2nd but I found out that the horse that won was later DQ'd, can I cash this? or at least get a refund? "... I chuckled, thinking ya, right, like they would even consider it. I thought to myself I should comeback a little later and at least read what their generic response would be or at least what others had to say. Just a few hours later, I go back on and the post is gone, I scrolled up and down the page, nothing. Mountaineers PR really thought they should delete this post? I remembered the posters name, and messaged him, figuring they at least responded privately to him. Nope, I haven't heard anything he tells me. I couldnt help but wonder how this horse received a bad test in August, but the horse wasnt actually DQ'd until October, but was allowed to run at PID in September with no mentioning of the failed drug test in the PP line, meaning the betting public was unaware that this horse failed a drug test and was going through an appeal process. So not once, but twice the public was screwed over. Oh, and the horse ran last at PID in that start after being bet down to 4-1

When I first looked up the chart from Mountainer, the night he was DQ'd. I saw it was a horse called Sea Dubia, DQ'd and placed last, trainer, none other than Billy Ray Davis, a trainer who was black balled from racing for more than a decade. father of Scooter Davis, who has had more positives than any the last decade. I look up the penalty they gave Billy Ray Davis, a loss of purse and a 15 day suspension. Sheesh, that must have put him out of business, don't ya think? I can see it now. A man gets out of prison after serving ten years for robbing a bank. Within months he robs a gas station and they just ask him to bring the stuff back.

Billy Ray Davis' DQ was for a drug called clenbuterol. The family's drug of choice. Although we wouldn't have enough ink to print out all of Scooters violations, his recent ones are mostly clenbuterol. In March of 2010, Scooter scored his first win at Penn National, as well as his first positive test at Penn National, for none other than clenbuterol. They gave him a $1,500 fine and a DQ, a suspension wasn't listed, but he didn't race up there the rest of the meet. The following year, a DQ at CT for clenbuterol, just a few days later, a DQ at MNR for clenbuterol. Shortly after this the state of WV gives his father a trainers license, WHILE SCOOTER IS SUSPENDED, Billy Ray Davis is granted a license? In the words of my 3 year old nephew, are you shitting me?

In August, when Billy Ray Davis' Sea Dubia was DQ'd at MNR, his son, Scooter Davis was busy seeking lasix after the deadline at their sister track PID, getting a 15 day suspension and a $1,000 fine. Will the madness ever end? DQ's, 15 day suspensions. $1,000 fines.... and MNR cant answer a simple question, can you refund my ticket when a Davis horse is DQ'd????