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Originally Posted by bobphilo
True, he might really be injured but in cases like this one has to look at the credibility of the sources and, lacking supporting evidence, I'd say Baffert's word is suspect. Remember how he denied any shady tactics in the Belmont, the 2016 Awesome Again and other cases.
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I wouldn't believe anything he said either.
But at the same time look at the circumstances surrounding the horse throughout his career (surgical lesion as a yearling, injured and unstarted as a 2yo, grueling schedule to make and win the Triple Crown, distinctly lame after the Kentucky Derby, intermittent training following Belmont) and you cannot simply dismiss the possibility of a career-ending injury with a wave of the hand.
