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 since 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.”…