- Trainer Bob Baffert denies any wrongdoing over test
- ‘I don’t feel embarrassed, I feel like I was robbed’
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert said on Sunday that he has been told Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a postrace drug test, the latest doping scandal for horse racing and arguably the US’s premier trainer.
Flanked by his attorney Craig Robertson in a 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. That is the same drug that was found in the system of Gamine, another Baffert-trained horse who finished third in the Kentucky Oaks last September.
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