Baffert responded: Zero tolerance?, Robertson, Bafferts attorney, then tried to negotiate for Baffert to avoid potential suspensions in both Arkansas and Kentucky. Medina Spirit had a legal medication in him, ONeill said. Hes the person few in the business want to talk about, but everyone wants to hear about. Clark Brewster, a nationally known trial attorney who represented adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her defamation suit against President Trump, will be Bafferts attorney in any litigation against Churchill Downs. Monty Roberts, a trainer who has agitated for more humane treatment of racehorses throughout his six-decade career, said that Baffert has long been one of the most important voices holding the sport back from reform. And the Breeders Cup, which will be held Nov. 5-6 at Del Mar, has indicated it will soon make a decision on Bafferts eligibility to run in those championship races. He rejoined The Times in 2009 and left his post as deputy sports editor late in 2017. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has successfully appealed his 15-day suspension to the Arkansas Racing Commission, allowing the six-time Kentucky Derby winner to resume preparations to run Medina . After the Times broke the news of the positive drug test, Ruis sued the CHRB in January 2020. He has often blamed drug positives on trace contamination from substances in a horses barn and has criticized tightening restrictions on the race-day use of bute and other drugs. The groom denied it. (At least one death of a Baffert horse identified by The Post was not included in the agencys data.) They had discussions with David Tinsley, the former DEA supervisor who runs 5 Stones, the people said, but the thoroughbred owners involved scrapped the plan. Time after time its not his fault. Like Baffert, Hollendorfer is in the thoroughbred Hall of Fame. There were at least 39 trainers with more fatalities to their name than Baffert during that period. [35], The most notable cases prior to Medina Spirit's test was the disqualification of Gamine after a third place finish in the 2020 Kentucky Oaks, also for betamethasone,[36] and Triple Crown winner Justify, who tested positive for scopolamine after winning the 2018 Santa Anita Derby, but the results did not become public until after the horse won the Triple Crown. In 1997, he trained Silver Charm to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, finishing second in the Belmont. Why would people want to be betting on horses when there are allegations and there are real positives and hes getting off on technicalities.. Baffert did not win another classic race until 2001, when he won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes with eventual Hall of Fame member Point Given. At first it was believed the substance came from a pain-relief patch that Bafferts longtime assistant Jimmy Barnes was wearing because of back pain. Ive heard the rumors on Bobby since we got in the business after winning some Cal Cup races. It was an easy suspension to serve as Baffert was in school and not doing much training. On Monday, Bell confirmed he helped with the search, adding Jimson weed has plagued California for years.. LOS ANGELES In 2018, as star trainer Bob Baffert led his thoroughbred Justify to the Triple Crown, California regulators embarked on a secret effort to exonerate Baffert after the horses positive test for a banned substance, according to confidential records obtained by The Washington Post that fully detail the saga for the first time. Until this summer, Baffert was the longest-serving member on the board of the Thoroughbred Owners of California, having been elected in 2007. The veterinarian chalked up Bafferts response to ignorance. [10][12] However, his violations for use of prohibited medications has sparked controversy. It didnt take Baffert long to dominate Rillito Park and Prescott Downs in Arizona. Between November 2011 and March 2013, however, Baffert had seven of his horses die of sudden death, not on the race track. But the sports new governing authority will not take over until mid-2022. Baffert, one of the most legendary trainers in American horse racing, has faced criticism and suspensions after his 2021 Kentucky Derby champion, Medina . He has won the Kentucky Oaks three times: first in 1999 with Silverbulletday, who was later selected for the Hall of Fame, then with Plum Pretty in 2011 and with Abel Tasman in 2017. On June 2, with the Belmont Stakes a week away, the owner of a feed operation showed up at the CHRB office carrying plant samples he said he found more than a month earlier, the records show. Per Baffert, barn staff including grooms, were involved in administering the thyroxine in feed.. After Uncle Sam, a 4-year-old colt, died during a workout at the track the following January, a vet wrote: This is the 3rd for this owner/trainer in about as many months collapsed and died.. Being a horse trainer is tough enough because its such an up-and-down, emotional roller coaster, Baffert said. At the time, she was 42-years-old. CHRB regulations state that its foreign substances guidelines are based on ARCI recommendations as modified by the state board. The. Nine died in 2000, all but one from breakdowns. In 2021, the post-race test of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit showed 21pg/mL of betamethasone. You could trust him and that never changed.. Baffert's attorney argued in court that the trainer's May suspension by the New York Racing Assn. A CHRB investigator, searching for Jimson weed, had found a leafy substance at Santa Anita Park, the records show, and following the Derby, Arthur and the CHRBs lawyer agreed to have it tested. It was obvious long before Miners Daughter collapsed in a blood-tinged froth in March 2013 that there was something amiss in Barn 61 at Hollywood Park, the Los Angeles-area racetrack. Baffert often speaks of his life as if its a Shakespearean play, humankinds tragedies mingling with his own existential crises. But when factoring in the number of races run, Bafferts horses have died at the highest rate of the 10 trainers who have had the most horse deaths. Gary Fenton, chairman of the TOC, declined to be interviewed. Trainer Bob Baffert celebrates after his horse, Authentic, won the Kentucky Derby in September 2020. Arthur also presented exercise histories for the horses that showed they worked harder than average. April 29, 2022 9:00 AM. Churchill Downs announced that any points earned in the leadup to the Kentucky Derby by horses associated with a suspended trainer would not be counted a move that seemingly targets Hall of Famer Bob Baffert. Less than two weeks later, Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby. He makes it clear that he believes in same-day medication and he believes in his whips, said Roberts, who has long pushed to remove whipping horses from racing. That was one of the most exciting and enjoyable Derbies, Baffert said. Medina Spirit died after a training session on 6 December 2021 and an ensuing necropsy on 11 February 2022 was inconclusive. In the case of Bafferts recent horse deaths, the records list a typical blend of drugs that have been allowed under certain thresholds, most frequently the anti-inflammatory phenylbutazone (or bute to horsemen) and furosemide (also known as Lasix), which is said to decrease bleeding from a horses lungs. When he was 10, his father purchased some Quarter Horses and he practiced racing them on a dirt track. On the morning of this years Kentucky Derby, he was going through his list of past Kentucky Derby winners and should-have-been winners, and dismissed Medina Spirit as not the best horse in the race. Things would have been so much simpler if the horse had not won the race. By then, Justify had won the Triple Crown, one of the rarest achievements in sports. He started at The Times in 1980 and left in 1995 to be sports editor of the Chicago Tribune and Tribune Co. sports coordinator in 2002. Baffert was fined $10,000. Bafferts lawyer called as a defense witness Arthur, who testified that his handling of the case was the fault of Californias cumbersome regulatory process. He declared, I considered this a horse poisoning, not a horse drugging., After the hearing, Santa Anitas Board of Stewards, a three-person panel that rules on drug cases, dismissed the complaints. California counts all fatalities of horses in a trainers care, including breakdowns during training, not just racing deaths. He followed it with six more Derbies, two of which launched Triple Crown runs, with American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Testimonies have begun in the case of horse trainer Bob Baffert against Churchill Downs. I thought wed get fourth. Does the drug that could strip Medina Spirit of a Kentucky Derby win enhance performance? Baffert's horses have won a record six Kentucky Derbies, seven Preakness Stakes, three Belmont Stakes, and three Kentucky Oaks. (Arthur and those involved with the bill said the actions were unrelated. Obviously if we can get the Kentucky case resolved, Arkansas will have the benefit of knowing that result before a final decision is made in that case. The majority of the deaths in Bafferts care are attributed to breakdowns, though others have died suddenly without explanation and some of the horses suffered illness including his most recent death, Noodles, in May where pneumonia was the suspected cause. Doug ONeill, a two-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, was one of the few trainers who would talk about Bafferts recent troubles. [citation needed], According to his supporters, Baffert's style and personality, combined with his success, have made him a target for controversy. American Pharoah next won the 140th Preakness Stakes, making six victories in that race for Baffert, who also finished fourth with Dortmund. Please answer some questions in this short survey about professional soccer and the 2022 Men's FIFA World Cup. They had a son in 2004 whom they named "Bode" (/bodi/ BOH-dee), after skier Bode Miller. His American Pharaoh horse won the Triple Crown in 2015. He has never apologized to the public for trashing the game. Bell told an investigator he then checked other bales and found a branch and pods he thought were Jimson weed in the parking lot. Santa Anitas 16-day fall season begins Friday with 14 stakes races over three days as trainers and owners take aim at the Breeders Cup at Del Mar. Thats much higher than the Jockey Clubs widely cited national rates, which never exceed two deaths per 1,000 starts. [38] This reminded the public that since 2000, at least 74 other horses had died while in Baffert's stables. [24], On May 17, 2021, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) banned Baffert from entering Medina Spirit or any of his other horses in the 2021 Belmont Stakes or any other race at Belmont Park. To me, whats in the best interest of the sport is not seeing anyone being dogpiled on.. The attorney generals office referred all questions to the CHRB. [25][26] On June 14, 2021, Baffert sued the NYRA alleging the association had no authority to suspend his license and that suspension "without prior notice" was a violation of the law. Theres 10,000 other trainers who understand the absolute insurer rule and dont seem to run afoul of it, Gagliano said, referring to the edict that any substances in the horse are the trainers responsibility. Many in the racing world wondered how many times can the dog eat your homework? I felt that we wouldve been dumping this in their lap, that we wouldve been putting them in an unfair position, and that we needed to go ahead and do the difficult thing, quite frankly, which is take responsibility for the decision, Baedeker said. Baffert said the horse ingested hay after a groom, who was taking cough medicine, had urinated in the horses stall. The Post separately obtained start data dating back to 2000 from the Daily Racing Form to put the deaths into context. Gagliano, the Jockey Club president, denied that the group had any knowledge of whom 5 Stones investigated, outside of the eventual indictments. Baffert failed in multiple attempts in Kentucky to overturn the track's ban or the start of his suspension, which began April 4. But the scuttled test result remained secret until the New York Times reported it in 2019. Hes good.. After finishing last season strong, CJ Abrams is ready for more. In the settlement, which records show did not include monetary damages, CHRB agreed to file a complaint against Justify. Baffert, however, wouldnt change the outcome. He routinely challenges most sanctions, usually agreeing to accept fines but vigorously fighting suspensions. This included Baffert's home track at Santa Anita, although Baffert horse Shaaz won the sixth race on April 2. The previous August, Bob Baffert Racing Stables had donated $1,000 to the TOCs political action committee, California records show. And in the 13 months following his essay in The Post, Bafferts horses tested positive for prohibited or excessive substances five times in three states. to move forward. Petersen did not respond to an interview request. With upward of $1 million in yearly revenue drawn from wagering at tracks, the TOCs stated mission included establishing fair and reasonable medication rules and integrity standards., Baffert, the groups resident celebrity, was in business with several of his colleagues. Either way, the state-appointed official probing Bafferts role in the deaths at Hollywood Park did so as his job was being threatened by the efforts of a Baffert-affiliated coalition. 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This America's different." pic . I guess I'm more of an "old school" Republican. Bob Baffert Family, Parents However, Medina Spirit tested positive for the steroid betamethasone. No sanctions were issued against Baffert.[40][41]. The way this case was handled was not a favor for Bob Baffert, Arthur said. CNN Hall of Fame horse trainer Bob Baffert will miss the Kentucky Derby for a second straight year after a federal judge denied his request to have a two-year ban by Churchill Downs Inc.. The drug was again betamethasone, and Baffert again expressed shock and vowed to clear his name. Mick Ruis, who trained against Baffert for a couple years but now just manages his own racing business, once admired Baffert and his success, but no longer. By Marty Irby. ), The records show Arthurs early decisions led to the CHRB veering off its usual course in its handling of the Justify case, beginning with his email to a testing coordinator that read, The scopolamine cases will be handled differently than usual., By the CHRBs own guidelines, the way forward was clear: If a second sample came back positive, the CHRB would file a complaint. "We live in a different world now. In fact, Bafferts horses, at 8.3 deaths per 1,000 starts, have died at a significantly higher rate than Hollendorfers, at 6.25. Robert A. Baffert is an American Racehorse Trainer who trained the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify. There are no secrets on the backside.. In 2007, he joined the 15-member board of the Thoroughbred Owners of California (TOC), a nonprofit that represents the roughly 9,000 CHRB-licensed owners in the state. The 5-year-old mare was the seventh seemingly healthy horse from that barn to drop dead in 16 months. Its all because of his success.. [8] His first suspension was in 1977 for misuse of morphene, but thereafter he had no violations for the next eight years. But in the most recent election in June, he finished seventh of eight, the only incumbent beaten. Two months after Arthur cleared Baffert, the legislation to limit his term died. In a recent interview, Arthur described his findings as damning for Baffert, in particular analysis in his report showing that, over a six-year period, Bafferts horses were nine times more likely to die of sudden death than the average trainers. Board member Michael E. Pegram had for decades hired Baffert to train his top horses, including the winner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby, Real Quiet. [As for whats going on now,] I dont like it but Im dealing with it. In 2013 the group hosted a Lasix-focused event at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills at which one owner reportedly said running a race without the drug was like waterboarding your horse in their own blood.. Baffert told investigators he used the drug for about five years to build up his horses, which Arthur noted was unusual because it was typically used to slim them down. [15], At a news conference on May 9, Baffert initially said that Medina Spirit was never administered betamethasone. Trainer Bob Baffert stands outside his barn at Churchill Downs on May 2, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. Medina . But hes a good person, no, a great person. "[16][17] Nonetheless, Churchill Downs suspended Baffert from entering any horses at their racetrack pending the outcome of an investigation. And he pushes the envelope to the extent that they give their lives for his bank account.. LOS ANGELES In 2018, as star trainer Bob Baffert led his thoroughbred Justify to the Triple Crown, California regulators embarked on a secret effort to exonerate Baffert after the horse's. The longest his suspension from Kentucky would be is 30 days, which would be honored by all racing jurisdictions. The positive test only emerged when the New York Times reported it more than a year later. But after learning that Justify and another Baffert horse had tested positive for the same drug, Arthur announced in an e-mail to CHRB officials: The scopolamine cases will be handled differently than usual. Arthur said in a recent interview that he was referring to the logistics of what was clearly going to be a high-profile case that needed to be handled carefully.. His graded stakes wins include nine wins in the Santa Anita Derby, nine in the Haskell Invitational Handicap, and fourteen in the Del Mar Futurity, a race he won seven straight times from 1996 to 2002, when it was a Grade II event. To the newspaper, she. Arthur suggested the board retroactively apply it to the Justify case. LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. High Connection won the $125,000 Los Alamitos Derby by 1 3/4 lengths Saturday, giving trainer Bob Baffert his second victory on the card in his return to competition after serving a 90-day suspension. Finding a new director every two to four years would cost $300,000 each time, a committee that analyzed the bill found. Baffert was recently suspended for 90 days by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, California Horse Racing Board, and the New York State Gaming Commission for drug violations in the 2021 Kentucky . was unconstitutional after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a postrace drug test. The ARCI rules are recommendations, the associations president, Ed Martin, said in an interview. "[10], However, over 30 horses Baffert trained have failed drug tests. Currently, his major coverage area is horse racing, where he can be found at big races at Santa Anita, the Triple Crown series and Breeders Cup. By age 20, he had developed a reputation as a trainer and was hired by other trainers to run their stables. The Post reported this month that Arthur had previously studied a spate of sudden horse deaths in Bafferts barn. In July 2020, Merneith tested positive for dextromethorphan, a drug commonly used in cough medicine. Then, when American Pharoah won the 2015 Belmont Stakes, the win was the fourth attempt at a Triple Crown for Baffert, who at age 62 became the second-oldest trainer to win a Triple Crown.[6]. Hollywood Park closed in 2013, and the saga of the dead horses there faded quickly from the headlines. When a horse dies in California, CHRB records often list medications the horse had been prescribed, based on its medical history. Some of the earlier violations do give you pause. The cluster of sudden deaths remains unexplained and there was no evidence whatsoever CHRB rules or regulations have been violated or any illicit activity played a part in the deaths, Arthurs report concluded. Regardless, the indictments appeared to sway Baffert, whose opinion piece in The Post supported drastic action to fix a broken system. Among the provisions in the federal legislation that Baffert supported is a phaseout of Lasix on race day a reform Baffert had opposed for years. "[23] On June 2, 2021, Medina Spirit's split sample also tested positive and Churchill Downs suspended Baffert through the end of the 2023 Spring Meet. The TOC, of which Baffert is still a board member, did not respond to requests for comment. This pattern has bred frustration among some horsemen. The scheme involved digging up drug-related dirt on Baffert and then telling him that the evidence could disappear tomorrow if he were to endorse the federal reforms of the sport, one of the people said. Horse racing needs to cut off the head of the snake, Ruis said. Last October Gamine was disqualified from third to last in the Kentucky Oaks after betamethasone, an anti-inflammatory, was discovered in the horses system. Baffert was suspended by the NYRA on May 17 -- a big deal as it barred the legendary horse trainer from entering into the prestigious June 5 Belmont Stakes race. This time, he aided the CHRBs search for Jimson weed. Kaleem Shah, an owner who split with Baffert in 2016, defended the trainer over the horse deaths. The 69-year-old Hall of Fame trainer is suing Churchill Downs Inc . On a recent afternoon, Baffert appeared largely unperturbed by the firestorm surrounding him when he answered his door in Arcadia, Calif. This is the first Ive learned of it, Baffert responded when told of The Posts finding that he had the highest rate of horse deaths among other top trainers in the state. "What a way to come back," said Baffert, whose punishment by the Kentucky Horse . The trainer was Baffert. We live and work in a fishbowl, with rumors and accusations flowing constantly, Baffert said. State investigators found that his staff was mixing a potentially dangerous prescription drug into the feed of every horse in his care. Baffert failed in multiple attempts in Kentucky to overturn the track's ban or the start of his suspension, which began April 4. Political Cartoons. ), Arthur has defended his handling of the Justify positive. Baffert has also had his share of horse fatalities, the other metric to which his critics point. It then changed the classification of scopolamine so that its detection in a horse would trigger only a fine and not disqualification and loss of the races purse. He also won the race in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 when run as a Grade I event. ), Among the TOCs central crusades was countering the movement against Lasix. But in 2018, Arthur was still on the job when another Baffert-trained horse tested regulators willingness to challenge him. It will all be settled by lawyers and judges and that takes time. Federal prosecutors had just indicted more than two dozen trainers, veterinarians and others on charges related to doping horses, a seismic event in a sport already reeling from a well-publicized spate of horse deaths and perpetually dwindling revenue. He declined to answer further questions. Were going to get through it.. Only once has a Kentucky Derby winner been disqualified for a medication violation. A court, the states lawyer wrote, could find that the CHRB abused its discretion and acted in a manner that was arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support.. In the court of public opinion, hes a big loser, said Barry Irwin, owner of racing group Team Valor and an outspoken critic of race-day medication and Baffert. Baffert has been married twice and has five children: four with his first wife, Sherry: Taylor, Canyon, Forest, and Savannah. [9] Point Given was nominated in 2009, but elected and inducted in 2010. But a top veterinary official cleared Baffert, finding that the spate of deaths remains unexplained following a probe that demonstrated the hazards of going after Baffert. Bob Baffert blamed "cancel culture" after his horse, Medina Spirit, who won the Kentucky Derby, failed its post-race drug test. Yes, I'm a registered Republican, although I've voted for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. Baffert has had more than 30 drug violations in his 44-year career, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. In 2015, a loose group of prominent thoroughbred owners hatched a plan according to people with direct knowledge of it to sic private eyes, from a firm called 5 Stones that helped bring down Russian dopers, on their sports most famous trainer. Baffert did not have a horse hit the board again in any of the Triple Crown races until 2009, when he trained Pioneerof The Nile to a second-place finish in the Derby. He won his first race on that 1970 afternoon but not as a trainer. CHRB brass agreed to follow Arthurs suggestion. [33], In February 2022, Baffert was suspended 90 days and fined $7,500 by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. Its all right there in black and white; thats all I can say., ARCI President Ed Martin said the rules limiting race-day medications have been tightened not out of concern for performance enhancement but to prevent breakdowns. With private eyes and political muscle, horse racings elite pushed to punish dopers, Bob Baffert, long horse racings irreverent king, sits on a precarious throne, Bob Baffert, banned from racing horses in New York, sues states racing association. Drop dead while galloping, read a California Horse Racing Board vets account of the first horses death in November 2011. Rick Arthur, Californias medical equine director, who the documents show played a central role in the scuttling of the Justify matter, said the only part of the CHRBs handling of the case that disappointed him was the secrecy. As he did so, a political group with Baffert on its board was involved in legislation that would result in Arthur losing his job. The bold statement appeared to put Baffert on the right side of history: By the end of the year, President Donald Trump had signed into law the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, which promised to reform the sport. Bob Baffert has moved his way up the ladder to the extent that he has the most influential, the wealthiest owners in the industry, that he takes on the highest-quality horses possible because he wins races. He married his second wife, Jill, a former television reporter based in Louisville, in 2002. Baedeker this week acknowledged that they handled the process more slowly than usual. The testing levels have become ridiculous, Baffert told a conference of racehorse veterinarians during his keynote speech in 2000, according to a trade publication. Baedeker said this week he changed his mind on not filing a complaint, which would have put the matter before CHRBs Board of Stewards, because he didnt want to pass the buck. Justify faced disqualification from his victory in the Santa Anita Derby that would cost his owners a partnership of wealthy interests their share of the $600,000 first-place purse.
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