Trainer Mike Puype is suspended by federal enforcers

Southern California-based conditioner Mike Puype, a two-time Breeders' Cup winning trainer, has been provisionally suspended by the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit, according to a Friday update on the organization's website.

As first reported by Paulick Report, Puype is accused of having the banned substances levothyroxine and isoxuprine in his possession April 24. He has not started a horse since the closing day of the Santa Anita meeting June 16 and does not have any horses entered for the opening weekend of Del Mar.

According to the HIWU website, levothyroxine is a metobolic hormone used to treat hyperthyroidism and isoxuprine is a vasodilator often used to treat navicular disease.

Puype is best know as the trainer of two-time Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Mizdirection, who won the race in 2012 and 2013. Overall, he has won 827 races from 5,462 starters. Thoroughbredrulings.com lists only two other previous medication violations by Puype, who began his training career in 1988.