NYPD reviewing its $734K contract for horse vet with decades-long history of violations

The NYPD is reviewing its $734,000 contract with a veterinarian overseeing the agency’s mounted horse unit after his history of violating racehorse care rules surfaced, The Post has learned.Camilo Bravo Sierra, of Northport, New York, who has been a contract veterinarian with the Department of Health in 2019, was fined at least seven times and suspended twice while working as a horse racing veterinarian at Queens’ Aqueduct Race Track, according to state data first reported by Gothamist. “While there have been no complaints or problems with the care that our horses have received, we take any allegations of abuse very seriously, and we are reviewing the contract,” an NYPD rep told The Post.A rep for the DOH, which oversees the city’s carriage horses and has a $3,000 horse veterinarian contract with Sierra until late 2026, declined to comment on “personnel issues.” Sierra was awarded the massive NYPD contract last October to treat the city’s fleet of roughly 50 horses for the next five years after the agency’s longtime vet died in 2023, a source familiar with the matter said.In an interview with The Post last year, Sierra called his violations “minor” and contended that he was only suspended from the racetrack grounds, and that his license itself was never suspended.A rep from the state gaming commission did not return a request for comment on the violations.“If I had committed serious violations, my license would have been suspended, period,” said Sierra, who declined a phone interview this month.According to ruling documents, Sierra “committed an improper, corrupt and fraud act” in 2017 at Aqueduct by submitting health certificates for horses he didn’t evaluate, prescribing the now-banned drug Albuterol to a horse he hadn’t treated and using a fictitious horse name on documents.Sierra was fined $4,500 and suspended for 21 days.Other violations issued to Sierra over the years include allegedly submitting health certificates for hor...