{"id":203823,"date":"2026-05-27T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203823\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:46:07","slug":"tom-chuckas-no-longer-employed-by-pennsylvania-state-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203823\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Chuckas “No Longer Employed” by Pennsylvania State Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 3:23 pm |
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Updated: May 27, 2026 at 3:36 pm<\/p>\n

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Parx Racing | Sarah Andrew<\/p>\n

By Dan Ross<\/p>\n

Tom Chuckas, Tony Salerno and Jason Klouser \u201care no longer employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania\u201d in their positions under the state Department of Agriculture, according to a brief email from an agency spokesperson.<\/p>\n

When asked about the reasons for the terminations, the spokesperson wrote that \u201cwe do not comment on personnel matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chuckas was the ag’ department’s director of Thoroughbred Horse Racing. He took that position in 2016. Before that role, he was formerly the president of the Maryland Jockey Club.<\/p>\n


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Chuckas attended Tuesday’s Pennsylvania horse racing commission meeting. He actively participated in his usual speaking role, making several presentations, with no hint of the firing.<\/p>\n

Tony Salerno was the director of Harness Racing. Jason Klouser was an investigator for the Bureau of Thoroughbred Horse Racing.<\/p>\n

According to a ruling posted on the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit’s (HIWU) website last week and reported in the TDN<\/a> Wednesday, charges against Parx trainer Felissa Dunn (brought when Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission investigators claimed to have found syringes in her barn} have been dropped after an internal investigation revealed that one or more of the investigators made material misstatements of fact.<\/p>\n

Nine trainers at Parx Racing were told last month<\/a> by track management they would be denied stalls at the track but were given no reasons. More recently, some of those trainers who have remained at Parx said they were told by track management to move their horses<\/a> to other trainers.<\/p>\n

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