A probe into Life At Ten’s performance in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic, held Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., and subsequent hearings into whether chief steward John Veitch violated any racing rules has cost the parties involved more than $100,000 to date.

Documents obtained by The Blood-Horse through an open records request show the KHRC has spent more than $48,000 on the case to date, including $35,396.16 in legal fees for attorneys Luke Morgan and Chapman Hopkins, who were retained to represent the commission in its action against Veitch. The outside attorneys represented the commission in the June 28-30 hearings into whether Veitch violated racing regulations with his handling of the Life At Ten case.

They billed the commission at the rate of $100 per hour.

Tom Miller, who along with Mike Meuser of the firm Miller, Griffin & Marks represent Veitch, said his client’s legal costs are well above those of the commission, pushing the total spent by the KHRC and Veitch above the $100,000 mark