Bob Baffert and his legal team have decisively won the public relations war over Medina Spirit’s Derby DQ. But they’re not likely to win in the courts.
Some nine months after, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has ruled that Medina Spirit be DQed from the 2021 Kentucky Derby.
The race for Kentucky Derby points is well underway, with 14 races already complete and another up this weekend. So why are 40 points unawarded?
In today’s BackTracks, songwriter Burt Bacharach bred a pair of West Virginia-breds that competed against — and often beat — the best of their generations.
Medina Spirit, first past the post in the 2021 Kentucky Derby, suffered an apparent heart attack on the racetrack this morning at Santa Anita Park and died.
Bob Baffert won’t have a horse in the Belmont, but all anyone can talk about is Bob Baffert. It’s exhausting, and another whiff.
Bob Baffert has been ruled off all Churchill Downs properties for the next two years, the company announced.
It’s been one thing after another in racing the last couple of weeks, and our Teresa Genaro wonders if it’ll all be enough to make racing take action.
Medina Spirit, tested positive for betamethasone after winning the Kentucky Derby, trainer Bob Baffert said – which could lead to disqualification.
It wasn’t going to be Bob Baffert’s year, but yet again it was as his trainee Medina Spirit scored a front-running upset in the Kentucky Derby.
