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Originally Posted by dilanesp
But a jockey HAS to deny a foul. Admitting the foul would cost the owner money. And a trainer HAS to deny doping the horse, for the same reason. If Baffert admits what he did, his fear is that owners will see it as a betrayal of his employers and will no longer hire him to train their top horses. He HAS to deny. He has no choice. The structure of the sport forces people into lying.
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I understand what you are saying, but he already admitted it was a legitimate positive. He's just claiming it was an accidental overage from an ointment and not from an injection. You can make that claim, ask for further testing to try to prove it and protect your reputation, and fight the DQ because you believe the rules were written to prevent an injection, all while at the same time accepting responsibility for it, being apologetic, and accepting a suspension for the positive.
Instead he's putting up a bigger fight with split samples, now there are accusations over the urine samples, he's fighting NYRA etc...
Even if you are innocent sometimes you just have to say "I F'd up and have to take a hit for it" instead of making matters worse. He's becoming so hated, a lot of people aren't going to want to do business with anymore no matter what.
