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Originally Posted by bisket
If you listen to Baffert after a positive his biggest complaint is the required time that his horse can’t be injected before a race wasn’t long enough. He followed the rules. but the horse still had the drug in his system. Jeff P talked about how all of Baffert’s are more muscular than others in the race. He trains his runners regularly with injections so he can train them harder. That’s his edge. If a horse is injected regularly with banned race day drugs. They would need a longer period of time then the track requires to get the drug out of his system.
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I agree his horses are typically very bulked much like sprinters and yet stay all day besides. It's unusual. I remember watching his horses in the breeder's cup a few years ago just post parade and warm ups and they definitely stick out. He has it figured out. Some don't stand up to it though and fall by the wayside so there's that and the whole tag-teaming thing with multiple entrants over the years, it was unsportsmanlike for someone who is as good as he is at this game. Maybe he's toned that part down a bit lately, I haven't been paying attention. The problem is so many drugs are in the game. I don't like to fault the man for overages because they're mostly all using stuff, let's face it. He has it down to a science is all. Give credit where it's due. On the other hand UK trainers are very often running right over the top of us in the BC anyway so this whole argument that the stuff is needed doesn't hold water. If you really need it you might need to get better. How good Bob is without this stuff is anyone's guess but it's hard to say he isn't the most formidable and accomplished trainer in the US game for decades now.
