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Horse racing officials in Ohio have suspended three people after the longshot winner of a race turned out to be a he instead of a she.
The state's racing commission concluded there was no intentional wrongdoing by those who allowed the wrong horse to run under a different name at Hollywood Gaming's Mahoning Valley Race Course near Youngstown.
The horse that was supposed to race was a winless filly listed as a 110-1 longshot. Instead, a male from the same stable won by nearly eight lengths.
The commission's executive director says a stable worker brought the wrong horse out for the race in early November and another employee failed to properly check the horse before it ran.
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The mix-up wasn't discovered until after the bets had been paid out.
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