[Meatspace]

Medina is only three years old and already on the path to drug addiction and very likely multiple stints in drug rehab.

[Track9]

Where’s Hunter..

[dfwgator]

He also tested positive for COVID.

[BobL]

Stupid-ass horse. Did he REALLY think that the drugs wouldn’t be detected?

[Leaning Right]

Can’t the trainer just blame this on Trump or on Climate Change? That works for pretty much everything else.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

So, what will the first tgree places be if Medina Crack Spirit is disqualified?

[BobL]

Wait!!! What color is the horse? Perhaps we can show some ‘disparity’ and get the accusation dropped.

[NonValueAdded]

With millions at stake, is it not beyond the realm of possibility that a rival - or a gambler - spiked the feed of a front-runner?

[BiglyCommentary]

I think you have to be skeptical anytime some test says it is 21 millionths of a gram of X vs 10 millionths. Good God some dust particle with the stuff on it could have floated onto the test same.

[ncalburt]

I recall a Arab owned horse .

[Gahanna Bob]

Do the exacta winners have to repay their winnings?

[1FreeAmerican]

Not being familiar with horse betting I’m wondering what happens to the payout’s? Have they been paid or are they held till drug test results come in?

[Dr. Sivana]

At the articles source, there is another article on in-vitro fertilization.

The article finishes with the following:
According to the CDC, about 4 million births per year in the U.S--about 1% to 2%--are IVF.

Those numbers made no sense, because that mean 400 to 800 million births per year. Here's the real info.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/updates/blogs/fertility-blog/2018/march/ivf-by-the-numbers 61,740: The latest SART report shows that 61,740 babies were born in the U.S. as a result of IVF in 2012. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports about 4 million births per year in the U.S., meaning 1 to 2 percent of all U.S. births annually are via IVF.

[EEGator]

The horse was an aspiring rapper, and turning its life around...

[Qiviut]

I love horses ... in fact, I have raised 3 Thoroughbred foals (racing stock, but not for racing) from a TB mare I owned. After decades of watching the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, & Belmont Stakes, even gathering with friends for a race day party or two in the past, I don’t watch any more. Frankly, the 2019 KD pretty much was the last straw that ‘killed’ it for me. Secretariat was the high point of racing for me.

Baffert KNOWS the penalty for failed drug tests & I can’t believe he’d be stupid enough to risk a disqualification on a race like the KD so I don’t think this is coming from him personally; however, anyone with access to his horses could have slipped them something (and I’m sure he has security but they can’t analyze everything a horse eats/drinks, etc.) - lots of motives for doing it out there, aside from trying to give the horse a winning edge. A KD disqualification would be quite the ‘black eye’ for Baffert & that may be the intent ... who knows. I hope he does “get to the bottom of it”, but frankly, good luck with that.

[maddog55]

It’s Betamethasone.. an mRNA gene therapy and it’s government approved !!

[nuke_road_warrior]

Medina is only three years old and already on the path to drug addiction and very likely multiple stints in drug rehab.

Is he an aspiring rap artist?

[Ez2BRepub]

The question is, did the jockey have his knee on the horses neck, for the whole race? If so, arrest him and wrongly convict him, in the name of wokeness.

[StAnDeliver]

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.

[kaehurowing]

But he is a good boy, he was going to win the Triple Crown and then go to medical school! This is prejudice and anti-Muslim prejudice because he is owned by a BIPOC Muslim.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Oops!