An independent investigation is underway, but Baffert wants you to know that despite there being issues in horse racing, the issue is not him. However, Baffert claims the horse was never treated with the drug - raising questions about how it got in its system. Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for elevated levels of betamethasone, a common steroidal treatment for arthritis in horses. Personally, if I were a billionaire race horse owner I wouldn’t be thrilled with the idea that the trainer I hired was having my horses eat pee hay, but I digress. In July of 2020, his horse Merneith tested positive for dextorphan after a second place finish at Del Mar.īaffert appealed the positive test claiming that an employee was taking cough medicine that accidentally contaminated the horse. This time pinning the blame on “cancel culture” and rampant unchecked stable urination.
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Baffert’s Churchill Downs suspension is pending a full investigation, but rather than letting the process play out, Baffert is on the attack.
Medina Spirit’s positive test is shining a new light on these past issues, and the trainer is not happy. This time after it was believed the medicine was accidentally transferred from an assistant trainer using the drug themself. Then in 2020 the case of two horses that returned positive tests for lidocaine in Arkansas, both trained by Baffert, were similarly dismissed. Over the span of his four decade career a total of 30 horses have registered positive drug tests on Baffert’s watch, with four in the last year.Ī 2018 incident in Santa Anita was dismissed as “feed contamination” after Triple Crown winner Justify tested positive for increased levels of scopolamine, a motion sickness drug. Baffert has been training horses since 1979, largely without issue, only recently being called out on the possibility he’s been injecting his horses with illicit steroids to create winners. This remarkable self-own ostensibly positions Baffert and saying “drugging horses is fine, y’all are just too sensitive about it.” That is, unless he has a different definition of “cancel culture” as everyone else. This America's different." /bsQeiV7oXi- Mediaite May 10, 2021 Bob Baffert blamed "cancel culture" after his horse, Medina Spirit, who won the Kentucky Derby, failed its post-race drug test.