Bob Baffert has a unique potential excuse for why Medina Spirit failed a drug test following the Kentucky Derby.
According to Baffert:
Baffert says one test issue was created by a groom urinating in the stall after the groom had been taking cough medicine. Horse ate some of the hay.
— rickbozich (@rickbozich) May 10, 2021
Just to clarify: Baffert told this story about another unnamed horse he had trained. Not Medina Spirit. He was trying to make the point about how samples can come back positive. https://t.co/4kJrtCnd62
— rickbozich (@rickbozich) May 10, 2021
Baffert also believes “cancel culture” played a role:
lol Bob Baffert went on Fox News and called the uproar about Medina Spirit’s failed drug test is a “cancel culture kind of a thing” pic.twitter.com/aZLeOp8kBz
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) May 10, 2021
Baffert on Dan Patrick: “Churchill came out with a really harsh statement. I think it was a knee jerk cancel culture kind of reaction. They violated my due process.” Says positive tests are usually confidential until split sample confirmed. “Now I have to fight this in public”
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) May 10, 2021
