{"id":1923,"date":"2009-01-22T03:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2009-01-22T03:13:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T20:13:15","slug":"horse-dentists-win-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horse-dentists-win-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse dentists win court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Page Primary: main content, basically everything but the right sidebar --> <!-- Page Topper: In sections, contains section header, and featured article box --><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"text-align: left;\">By PAUL POST, The  Saratogian<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SARATOGA SPRINGS \u2014 Equine dentists are hailing a court ruling they hope will allow them to keep working permanently without further legal threats from the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has rejected a state Racing and Wagering Board\u2019s appeal that sought to keep lay horse dentists from practicing their trade.<\/p>\n<p>The case centered around Chris Brown, who was denied work from mid-2006 to mid-2007, because the state said he didn\u2019t have proper certification. Brown, however, has more than 30 years of experience and has worked at Saratoga Race Course for several Hall of Fame trainers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the state\u2019s arguments are down the drain,\u201d said Michael Aronow, Brown\u2019s attorney, who took the case on a pro bono basis. \u201cIt really has widespread implications for all backstretch workers. I\u2019m thrilled for these guys. So are the trainers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"instory\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><!-- AdSys ad not found for news:instory --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt\u2019s kind of fun to beat the state because they throw so many guns at you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saratogian.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/18\/news\/doc4972aa3ec0dc2181024078.txt\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL POST, The Saratogian SARATOGA SPRINGS \u2014 Equine dentists are hailing a court ruling they hope will allow them to keep working permanently without further legal threats from the state. The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has rejected a state Racing and Wagering Board\u2019s appeal that sought to keep lay horse dentists from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}