Posted on 05/09/2021 8:05:25 AM PDT by Meatspace
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday that his barn has been told Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a postrace drug test, the latest doping scandal for horse racing and arguably the sport’s premier trainer.
Flanked by his attorney Craig Robertson in a morning news conference at Churchill Downs on Sunday, Baffert said Medina Spirit was found to have 21 picograms of the steroid betamethasone, double the legal threshold in Kentucky racing, in a postrace sample.
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Me too!! A couple of times a year. The greastest race ever run by a horse. It’s the equivalent of a baseball player hitting 8 grandslams in a doubleheader or a running back rushing for 1000 yards in one game.
sorry, autocorrect, that's supposed to be BLOOD volume.
If you let this go by then next year you will have nothing but Bulgarian and East German mares winning the Derby.
Oh...your secretariat joke is WONDERFUL!
I can think of one man who’d LOVE to see Baffert taken down a notch: Jason Service... trainer of Maximum Security.
“””It’s WAY worse than that. Millionths would be micrograms. Picograms is trillionths of a gram. (Billionths would be nano).”””
Were the 25 picograms found in the blood sample that was probably less than one ounce?
Well, if the sample was one gram (probably around 1cc), then the measurement was 21 parts per trillion. Even ppb (parts per billion) is pretty fine and this is 1000 times less.
You got it backward...grass is the gateway drug...and they start young. See those colts chomping away in the meadows, might as well be an opium den I tell ya.
Wrong thread?
I wonder if the horse got the shots Legally, earlier, but his system didn’t clear the metabolites of the drug within the expected withdrawal time.
We had to watch for this when we were milking cows to avoid putting “hot” milk in the tank. Some of the cows took a lot longer than expected to test OK and clear of medication. If we were responsible for a condemned tanker load, we paid for it.
The horse might have been in the same situation.
That was my thought but you expressed the question a lot better than I did......
LOL! I like that. That’s what you get for reading the article, lol
I wonder if the horse got the shots Legally, earlier, but his system didn’t clear the metabolites of the drug within the expected withdrawal time.
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Is this a somewhat common occurrence? Is this something that could reasonably be expected to be found in other horses that ran that day regardless of where they finished?
Hot off the press. BAFFERT SUSPENDED.
https://news.yahoo.com/horse-racings-bob-baffert-suspended-163500341.html
No doubt Medina will end up on the streets of Harlem with red hooves and torn fishnets.
I actually forgot about the Derby at the crucial time. Missed it.
But, I’ve lost enthusiasm for current racing since they BOWED to these thugs and LIARS of BLM. So no recordings as I’ve done for 35 years, and no plans. No studying the horses. Hell I don’t even know the horses this year.
SJW commies and enablers at the tracks destroyed it.
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