On Saturday, Sept. 20, a backstretch security employee at Indiana Grand racetrack walked into work and asked her supervisor what she should do if she saw a veterinarian in the stall of a horse that was entered to race that day. Though she had not reported it to anyone at the time, the employee, Jamie Kolls, who was hired by the track in July to work as a barn walker for $9 an hour, told the supervisor she had seen such an incident a day earlier, when making her rounds to check on horses entered to race on the Friday card.
“I told her about the severity of the allegations,” said the supervisor, Dee Thoman, in a deposition. “That is a very severe allegation against a vet, and that she needed to be a hundred percent sure that that’s, you know, that’s what happened. She said that she was.”
After the pair re-walked Kolls’s Friday route among Indiana Grand’s barns, they returned to the track’s security office to file a report stating that Kolls had found Ross Russell, a young veterinarian who does work on at least half the horses on the backstretch of Indiana Grand, in the stall of a horse entered to run on Friday’s card.
Later that day, based solely on the report, the Indiana Grand stewards suspended Russell indefinitely.
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