Judge goes off on alleged horse-doping cheats who asked for recusal

A Manhattan federal judge ripped attorneys for a group of alleged horse-doping trainers who had asked the jurist to recuse herself in the case — calling their request “frivolous” and “intentionally misleading.”

The judge, Mary Kay Vyskocil, was responding to a motion that she recuse herself from the largest horse-doping prosecution in the United States filed by attorneys for defendants, including Jorge Navarro, the alleged doping king of the sport. In the motion, the attorneys falsely argued that horses owned by Vyskocil raced against steeds owned by two of the defendants, including Navarro, which could potentially make her a victim in the case, the judge said in the hearing Friday.