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Originally Posted by Track Phantom
Baffert has been giving his horses PEDs for many, many years. His horses don't win like they do because of pain numbing. All the evidence is there both this year and historically on Baffert. The overage is a false positive similar to what was in the Servis/Navarro report.
Consider this stat. In the last 28 years of the Kentucky Derby, there have been 4 wire to wire winners and 16 horses who ran in the exacta that were setting the pace or sitting right on it (2nd/3rd).
The wire to wire winners:
Bob Baffert 3
Jason Servis 1
The exacta runners who were on the pace:
Bob Baffert 7
9 other trainers 1
Considering how these PEDs work (increasing speed, and more importantly, stamina), Baffert runners all have speed and never get tired no matter the pace scenario. It's very simple stuff, in my opinion. Show me a "supertrainer" who wins their races off the pace. Won't find it. They all go to the front and fail to fatigue at the normal rate.
All of this other mickey mouse is a bunch of noise that is coincidental to the actual problem.
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Definitely, the way both Authentic and Medina Spirit won raises some concerns. In both cases, they seemingly set fast paces and then ran much faster in the stretch than you would expect, when they should have gotten tired. Authentic was headed by Tiz the Law, a very good racehorse, and turned him back. Medina Spirit had 3 horses move alongside and wouldn't let any of them by.
Now maybe this is just Baffert's great skill in putting stamina into his horses before a 1 1/4 mile race, but....
