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Originally Posted by pandy
Yes, there are other guys but Baffert does cheat in the most prestigious races in the sport and if you look at it in terms of money (purse money and breeding rights), he's probably the biggest crook in the history of the sport. Think of all of the owners, horses, trainers, who could have won a major stakes race but ran second to one of his doped-up horses.
And in terms of the number of drug violations per start and horses that simply dropped dead, Baffert is the leader in both categories according to the stats that I've seen. Rudy Rodriguez and John Sadler both have a lot of violations per start as well. The other thing is that Baffert lies and makes up crazy excuses and is an embarrassment to the sport.
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I'm not saying he doesn't cheat. I think they all do, just like everyone did in the Olympics in the 80's and 90's but they cleaned up the sport which i wish horse racing would do. Getting rid of one guy is not going to fix the problem. It's more of a PR move so they can say. "Hey we got rid of best trainer because he was doping" meanwhile letting everyone else slide. The New York Times reported has has had 29 drug overages spanning 4 decades. That's less than once a year. I don't know how that compares to others but that doesn't seem to me that it's excessive. I don't know where to find the stats of trainers having drug overages or suspensions Maybe I'm wrong.
