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Former Windsor Horse Trainer Fined

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He pleaded guilty to two counts of defrauding the public.

A former Windsor horse trainer has been fined for doping horses.

39-year-old Christopher Haskell pleaded guilty Monday morning to fraud and attempted fraud over $5000.

The court heard in 2010, Haskell held a standardbred trainer's license and the OPP began an investigation involving his conduct as a horse trainer. 

A video installed in the stalls at the Windsor Raceway  caught Haskell giving a horse an injection.

When he was arrested in November 2010, he had six loaded syringes in his pocket with drugs that increased the horse's performance during a race.

Haskell was fined a total of $3750 and was given a year to pay.