Federal prosecutors in New York allege that a group of individuals were collaborating to provide racehorses with performance-enhancing drugs to help them win races across the globe. This according to court documents filed in New York on Monday.

According to court documents, 27 people have been charged in the scheme. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman noted: “The charges in this indictment result from a widespread, corrupt scheme by racehorse trainers, veterinarians, PED (performance-enhancing drug) distributors and others to manufacture, distribute and receive adulterated and misbranded PEDs and to secretly administer those PEDs to racehorses under scheme participants’ control.”

Berman goes on to add that races in New York, Florida, New Jersey, Kentucky, Ohio, and the United Arab Emirates were likely affected.

Of the 27 people charged, several prominent names within the horseracing industry are named, including Jason Servis, the trainer of Maximum Security, last year’s Kentucky Derby winner. Servis is alleged to have given performance-enhancing drugs to “virtually all of the racehorses under his control.” If true, it means that 1082 races between 2018 and 2020 were likely tainted.