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Old 06-24-2021, 08:05 PM   #871
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Pletcher got hit with a $3,000 fine and 45 day suspenson for Mepivacaine, a class 2 drug, back in 2004. Since then he's had about a dozen minor positives. Personally, I think he's profoundly more honest than Baffert. Although Pletcher is the all time leader in purse money won, his horses rarely, if ever, run freakish races like Baffert's. If a Pletcher horse gets used in a fast pace, the horse either tires and loses, or, if it's a really good horse, it hangs on but is clearly tiring late. Baffert has had many horses get used in a fast pace and they look fresh as a daisy in the final eighth. That's the drugs.
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Old 06-24-2021, 10:55 PM   #872
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He doesn't exactly have as pristine a history with drug overages as a couple of other top trainers often mentioned here as the gold standard of clean. Some people have also questioned some of the performances in Florida and other events.
He also had the group (three?) of suspicious horse deaths in a short span that included Left Bank.
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Old 06-25-2021, 12:06 PM   #873
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I just thought it was funny that he was on there



I mean it would be cool to get Larry Collmus to do some announcing type thing for a birthday or party but I saw the sample that Bob Baffert did for someone's birthday and he said "Happy birthday to so and so! I heard you were a owner of Authentic" and he went on about being a owner and his horses rather than wishing someone a happy birthday
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Old 06-26-2021, 10:03 AM   #874
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Pletcher got hit with a $3,000 fine and 45 day suspenson for Mepivacaine, a class 2 drug, back in 2004. Since then he's had about a dozen minor positives. Personally, I think he's profoundly more honest than Baffert. Although Pletcher is the all time leader in purse money won, his horses rarely, if ever, run freakish races like Baffert's. If a Pletcher horse gets used in a fast pace, the horse either tires and loses, or, if it's a really good horse, it hangs on but is clearly tiring late. Baffert has had many horses get used in a fast pace and they look fresh as a daisy in the final eighth. That's the drugs.
The drug Baffert is trouble for is minor...

what are Bafferts Class 1 and Class 2 violations so we can compare apples to apples.
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Old 06-28-2021, 10:42 PM   #875
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So when will Medina Spirit get DQ'd from the Derby?
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Old 06-28-2021, 11:04 PM   #876
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So when will Medina Spirit get DQ'd from the Derby?
The longer we go, the worse it is. Guilty people almost always benefit from delay.
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Old 06-29-2021, 09:59 AM   #877
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So when will Medina Spirit get DQ'd from the Derby?
2024?
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Old 06-29-2021, 10:35 AM   #878
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So when will Medina Spirit get DQ'd from the Derby?
That's a very interesting question. The split sample came back positive. Or, will this be yet another Justify kind of situation where the findings simply get brushed under the rug?
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That's a very interesting question. The split sample came back positive. Or, will this be yet another Justify kind of situation where the findings simply get brushed under the rug?
It's hard to know what KHRC is thinking. One possibility is that they are spooked by Baffert's lawyers and their litigiousness. But the weird thing about that is they weren't spooked at all by Gary and Mary West's litigiousness two years ago.

Another possibility is they are going to give him a light suspension, and to do that, you want to drag this out as far as possible and let the public outrage die down.

They can't sweep it completely under the rug, because the only reason CHRB was able to do that when Baffert stole the Santa Anita Derby (and eventually the Triple Crown) with Justify was because the test results were never made public, allowing the CHRB to commit the felony of holding a secret meeting to change the regulation and legalize Baffert's cheating. By the time it came out, there was little that could be done (though I am still rooting for Mick Ruis' longshot suit).

Here, they are going to have to at least disqualify the horse. That's mandatory, and everyone knows it. But if they want to give Baffert a slap on the wrist beyond that, they want to wait as long as possible to do it so that it fades from the news.

In contrast, if their intention is to give a harsh punishment, you want to do it when everyone is still outraged, and not worry about the inevitable lawsuit (which KHRC will win anyway). So if they actually are going to hit Baffert hard, it's a mistake to wait.
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Many interesting points and thoughts you have put forth dilanesp. I hadn't previously thought about some of the angles or possible motivations you presented. Excellent post!!
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Everything may be on hold until they get the urine test results.
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Old 06-30-2021, 12:45 PM   #882
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The drug Baffert is trouble for is minor...

what are Bafferts Class 1 and Class 2 violations so we can compare apples to apples.
Baffert did get caught with Morphine once. But if you look at his record of horse deaths and 31 drug violations, I don't think we need much more evidence that he's a cheater. Of course, there's also the fact that he has had many horses run insanely fast races to the point where it's extremely suspicious.
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Baffert did get caught with Morphine once. But if you look at his record of horse deaths and 31 drug violations, I don't think we need much more evidence that he's a cheater. Of course, there's also the fact that he has had many horses run insanely fast races to the point where it's extremely suspicious.
Can anyone remember any other trainer in recent memory that is even close to having horses that seem to so regularly running literally out of their skin types of performances such as Baffert? Are there any other trainers that would be considered close to being within his realm regarding these types of shenanigans?
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Can anyone remember any other trainer in recent memory that is even close to having horses that seem to so regularly running literally out of their skin types of performances such as Baffert? Are there any other trainers that would be considered close to being within his realm regarding these types of shenanigans?
Do you actually follow racing on a day to day basis?
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Hey TLG:

If you are intimating that essentially all of them are a mess nowadays, well, I hear you!!
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