Apparently this alliterate trainer has offered $10K to anyone who is willing to go in front of cameras and admit they are the person alluded to in his fake explanation.

Bob Baffert

Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit Fails Drug Test

The 2021 Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, failed a drug test after the race, putting a new stain on a sport troubled by doping problems and placing thoroughbred horse racing’s most recognizable personality, the Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, under uncomfortable scrutiny.

If he is disqualified, Medina Spirit will be stripped of the Derby title and its winning purse, and become only the third horse in the 147-year history of the race to receive such a penalty after finishing first. The colt cannot be disqualified until a second sample, collected at the same time as the first, confirms the result in a test expected in the coming weeks. Mr. Baffert will then have an opportunity to appeal.

The positive test comes as horse racing, acknowledging it has a drug problem, prepares to implement the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, which was passed last year in Congress. It will take effect July 1, 2022, and calls for a board overseen by the Federal Trade Commission to write rules and penalties to be enforced by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

The agency, which regulates Olympic and other elite athletes in the United States, revealed the cyclist Lance Armstrong’s cheating and issued him a lifetime suspension in 2012.

On Sunday, Churchill Downs officials suspended Mr. Baffert from entering other horses there. It’s unclear how long the suspension will last or how it will affect his standing in the sport. The officials said they would await the results of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission’s investigation “before taking further steps” regarding Mr. Baffert’s suspension.- Source

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