Rodriguez gets days for medication violation

Trainer Rudy Rodriguez will serve a seven-day suspension beginning with the April 29 opening of the Belmont Park meet after one of his horses tested positive for an overage of flunixin, a nonsteroidal inflammatory that is not permitted for use on raceday.

The suspension was reduced from 15 days after Rodriguez waived his right of appeal. Rodriguez also was fined $1,000, according to the stewards.

Flunixin was found in the post-race sample of Eve of Destruction, who finished in a dead heat for third in the second race at Aqueduct on March 11. Eve of Destruction will be ordered unplaced in the order of finish, and owner Michael Imperio will have to forfeit the $1,585 the horse earned in purse money for that race.