After a group of Fair Hill shippers coming off long layoffs and with some common connections won four races Sunday and, in one instance, produced a suspiciously low daily double payoff, training center General Manager Will Phipps confirmed that the Maryland facility will launch an investigation.The races in question took place at both Saratoga and Monmouth. The New York Racing Association has also taken steps to answer the many questions the performances raised.“NYRA has referred the matter to HISA, HIWU, and the TRPB for further investigation,” said NYRA Vice President of Communications Patrick McKenna.Through a spokesperson, HISA issued a statement last Monday afternoon, which reads: “HISA is aware of information circulating on social media and concerns raised directly to HISA personnel regarding events at multiple races on Aug. 9 and is actively investigating those concerns. We take any potential violations of HISA rules extremely seriously.“Consistent with HIWU's test distribution plan, all horses that won the races referenced were immediately selected for Post-Race testing. Additional targeted Out-of-Competition Testing has been and will continue to be administered by HIWU. HISA has placed Threedots Andadash, who was entered to compete [Monday] at Presque Isle Downs by connections of the horses in question, on the HISA Veterinarians' List as deemed unfit to race. Threedots Andadash will remain on the Veterinarians' List pending further developments in the investigation. As HISA is not currently operating in West Virginia, it has informed the West Virginia Racing Commission about the other horse entered to race today with similar connections at Mountaineer.“HISA and HIWU will continue to carefully review the available information and testing results and will take any appropriate action if the investigation determines that HISA rules have been violated. At this stage, HISA will not speculate on the outcome of the investigation or testing process.”Threedots Andadash hasn't run since May and has three slow workouts at Fair Hill.A New Jersey racing official, who asked not to be quoted, also confirmed that the New Jersey Racing Commission is looking into the matter.Trainer Angel Quiroz, who has stalls at Fair Hill, ran two horses at Monmouth. He won the third race with The Great Amira (Rock Your World), who last ran on Feb. 8 and finished 10th, beaten 15 lengths, in a $35,000 maiden claiming race at Gulfstream. She was 20-1 on the morning line and was sent off at 17-1 and won the race by nine lengths under jockey Carlos Lugo. It was only Quiroz's third winner on the year.In the next race, the Quiroz-trained Tepeyac (Heart to Heart) won by a half-length, also under Lugo. It was the colt's first start since finishing sixth in an optional claimer/starter allowance on April 5 at Gulfstream.Quiroz's winners paid $37.20 and $9.60, but the $1 daily double combining the two paid just $12.80.Quiroz also started a horse in the third race Sunday at Saratoga named Scootaloo (Mitole). After getting off to a slow start and tossing her head at the break, that horse finished fourth.“It's very simple,” Quiroz said. “I took my horses and ran them at Monmouth Park and won the races and I took one horse to Saratoga and she ran fourth. Everybody is shocked. I don't see what the big deal is or what the problem is. I'm supposed to run all the time and not try to win the race? There are too many people behind social media who don't show their faces and post too much stuff that is not true. The problem with social media is that this became very popular and people started to say stuff that isn't true and tried to make me out to be a bad guy.”Quiroz said that handicappers should not have been surprised that both horses won. He said that The Great Amira had overcome some problems and he always believed she would improve on the grass. As for Tepeyac, he said the horse had been facing better company in races at Colonial Downs and Gulfstream and fit in the $16,000 claimer.“It's not your fault that other people didn't like the horses or bet on the horses,” he said.At Saratoga, trainer Ernesto Ochoa won two races with horses coming off layoffs and showing works at Fair Hill. Quiroz confirmed to the TDN that he had trained both horses before they were sold to Ochoa by their owner. Ochoa does not have stalls at Fair Hill.Ochoa's first winner was Classic Rock (Daredevil). Making his first start since a restricted maiden special weight race at on Nov. 7 at Churchill Downs, he was 10-1 on the morning line, went off at 8-1 and won by 8 3/4 lengths. It was just Ochoa's third winner on the year. Ochoa came back in the seventh race and won with M Bs Melanie Cares (Redesdale). Unraced since finishing fifth in a Jan. 4 maiden optional claimer at Gulfstream, M Bs Melanie Cares won by 3 1/2 lengths at 12-1.Both of Ochoa's winners, as well as Scootaloo, were ridden by Ricardo Santana Jr.“I've known Ochoa for a long time,” Quiroz said. “My owner made a deal with him. The horses were ready to run and in good condition.”Phipps said that he has told Quiroz that he must meet with him and the Fair Hill Board of Directors Tuesday morning.“We're taking a hard look at what the facts are and we will talk about it at our board meeting tomorrow and will take appropriate action,” Phipps said. “We have spoken with everybody involved. In short, the trainers said they did nothing wrong. We will be investigating. This is very unusual. As you can imagine, this is nothing we've ever had to deal with before. We have a good group of people over here. Angel is a new trainer who came in for a three-month stint here. We will be looking into who we let into here and why. That's for sure.“I am going to put him in front of our executive committee. We're going to get the whole story from him verbatim. As of now, it's kind of piecemeal. We've never had anything like this happen so we are trying to sort through it the best we can.”All of the horses' last workouts had been recorded at Fair Hill.The story went viral after first being reported on X by Doug Salvatore. The Fair Hill 5Five different horses ran today at either Monmouth or Saratoga for two different obscure trainers. Each horse was coming in off of a long layoff and they all had recent published workouts at the Fair Hill Training Center.Story here: pic.twitter.com/MiLOmirTog— Doug Salvatore (@DougieSal) August 9, 2026The post Fair Hill, HISA Launch Investigation Into Training Center Shippers appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.