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Baffert's Gamine, who won easily earlier on Derby Day in the Derby City Distaff, had been dq'd for the exact same steroid -- betamethasone -- from her 3rd in the COVID-delayed Kentucky Oaks last September.

"Craig Robertson, Baffert’s lawyer, said in a previous statement that Gamine was administered betamethasone 18 days prior to the Oaks."

So Baffert's excuses don't hold any merit whatsoever.

To keep Medina Spirit from running, Maryland and New York would have to enjoin the owners Zedan Racing from running Medina Spirit without the benefit of the official ruling from the Kentucky Racing Commission, because the post-race split sample won't be returned -- despite surely confirming the positive result -- for another 3 weeks.

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O, irony, thou are the light of Schadenfreude.

When Jason Servis was wrapped up by the Feds for allegedly doping horses, the West's transferred their Maximum Security (the wrongfully-DQ'd 2019 Derby winner) from Servis' barn to ... Bob Baffert. Where he won 2 and lost 2, and is now out to stud at Ashford.

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"To keep Medina Spirit from running, Maryland and New York would have to enjoin the owners Zedan Racing from running Medina Spirit without the benefit of the official ruling from the Kentucky Racing Commission, because the post-race split sample won't be returned -- despite surely confirming the positive result -- for another 3 weeks."

This has changed with Churchill Downs suspension of Bob Baffert in the past hour -- all Pimlico and NYRA would have to do is reciprocate Baffert's suspension, rather than instantiate their own suspension of Baffert or enjoin Zedan Racing.

The fat is in the fire.