Princess Secret Denied Entry Into Breeders’ Cup

Princess Secret (Khozan), winner of the Susan’s Girl S. and My Dear Girl S. for owner and trainer Daniel Pita, was denied entry into Friday’s GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies after testing positive for a banned substance.

An Oct. 26 blood test administered by the Breeders’ Cup Out-Of-Competition program turned up the presence of Stanozolol, an anabolic steroid clearly prohibited by Breeders’ Cup under its conditions of entry.

According to Breeders’ Cup constructs, any horse that tests positive for anabolic steroids or any ARCI-prohibited substances in any out-of-competition sample within six months of participation in the Breeders’ Cup is ruled ineligible to participate.

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“Breeders’ Cup out-of-competition testing is done to the highest world standards and is vital to ensuring the integrity of the World Championships,” stated Breeders’ Cup President & CEO Drew Fleming.

“All horses pre-entered for the Breeders’ Cup are subject to our stringent medication and testing protocols and must meet these requirements in order to compete. Breeders’ Cup will continue its work to ensure the safety and the integrity of our sport, including our strong support of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act and other progressive reforms for Thoroughbred racing in the U.S. through our involvement in the Thoroughbred Safety Coalition.”

Pita stated on Monday that “this filly has never been administered stanozolol in her life.”

He said that Princess Secret has been under his care since she was bought in October 2019 out of a Florida yearling auction for $30,000, and that she has been in training at his barn at Gulfstream Park West since April.

“She has run all her own races and has done it on her own,” Pita said. “She’s earned the right to be in the race. We have been looking and searching for any way this filly could have been administered stanozolol and we have no idea how she was positive. This is not me. This is not how I run my business.”

As an out-of-competition test, Breeders’ Cup does not have any authority to punish Pita beyond denying him the entry box. It could also ban Pita from future events.

The field for the Juvenile Fillies now stands at seven.

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