Jordan Fishman, one of 27 people initially indicted early last year on charges related to the adulteration and misbranding of drugs in horse racing, entered a guilty plea on Wednesday afternoon as part of a deal with the government. During a teleconference in front of Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Fishman pleaded guilty to one federal count of drug adulteration and misbranding conspiracy, an identical charge to those of others in the indictment who have entered guilty pleas. Six other indicted individuals have also entered guilty pleas, including the trainer Jorge Navarro. At the conclusion of the hearing, Vyskocil set a sentencing hearing for Feb. 8. A report prepared by the prosecution in consultation with Fishman’s attorneys called for a sentence of 12 to 15 months in prison and a fine of between $5,500 and $55,000. The specific charge calls for a maximum sentence of three years. Fishman was accused in a superseding indictment released last year of producing and distributing drugs to Thoroughbred and Standardbred trainers and other horsemen, many of them marketed by MediVet Equine, a Florida compounding company owned by Seth Fishman, who was also indicted (the two are not related). Among the drugs described in the indictment were purported “blood builders” and SGF-1000, the now notorious substance that was marketed as a performance-enhancing drug. :: Get Daily Racing Form Past Performances – the exclusive home of Beyer Speed Figures.  In one wiretapped conversation produced by government prosecutors in the indictment, Jordan Fishman told Navarro that he had “hundreds of products” and that most of them were “untestable,” meaning that they would not return positives in post-race drug tests. (Some regulators have contended that some of the substances marketed by MediVet would not return positive tests because they did not contain prohibited ingredients.) Fishman also told Navarro that he could create “customized” substances. In the hearing on Wednesday, Jordan Fishman said specifically that he prepared substances for MediVet and shipped them to the company in Florida, with directions for the formulations provided by Seth Fishman. He shipped those without identifying information on the labels, and he said he did so to evade authorities. “I understood it was wrong, absolutely, your honor,” Fishman said. “I knew I was not licensed to move that material to Seth in interstate commerce.” Earlier in the hearing, Jordan Fishman had answered “yes” to a description of the charges outlined by Vyskocil, in which she said: “You aided Seth Fishman from 2017 until March of 2020 with formulating and distributing misbranded and adulterated drugs to racehorses . . . to improve their performance and evade detection by state and federal regulators.” Jordan Fishman was part of a first trial grouping of four individuals who were expected to go to court in January of next year. Seth Fishman, who has challenged the legality of evidence collected by wiretaps in the case, along with other defendants, including the trainer Jason Servis, remains part of that grouping.