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Originally Posted by Andy Asaro
This is a well established pattern. A positive in the Oaks and the Derby are the biggest ones. In addition to the positives, we know from the Servis/Navarro transcripts that many performance enhancers that are undetectable will show as positives for therapeutics. Then you can add in the horse deaths.
This is an Industry/Regulator problem and it's on them to handle this. Nothing will change my opinion of the guy or what he does.
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So everyone who is saying Baffert still purposely cheated with Medina Spirit by injecting him will have to argue that Baffert gave the horse a second injection of something that switched the readout from acetate to valerate.
I would love to hear what can make that happen.
One more thing, it is obvious that Churchill knew from the beginning what is in the Kentucky rules and how it was written otherwise Medina would have been disqualified after the second test. No one disputed that betamethasone was in his system or the amounts after the second test. Churchill has known all along that it specifically states acetate results in an automatic disqualification and they had to know that a cream would show valerate, which isn't mentioned as a violation. Churchill was hoping these tests would come back their way and it didn't. Now lift the suspension and lets all move on.
