Sum Outstanding. No results found Your search returned no results. Please try again. Year Name Published:. Disqualified or Excluded: Disqualified. Sum Outstanding:. Disciplinary panel decisions - recent additions View all Date of Decision. Length of Penalty. Date of Decision:. Disqualified or Excluded:. Extent of Penalty:. My record proves it. This is horrible what has happened. The horse never got that medication. He ran hard. He deserved to win that race and it kills me because these horses are like my children and for something to happen to him like that is horrible.
This article is more than 5 months old. Rules in the state of Kentucky limits the use of the steroid to 14 days or more before a race. Any level of detection on race day is a violation. If the violation is upheld after a second round of testing, Medina Spirit would be disqualified and second-place finisher Mandaloun named winner of the Kentucky Derby. It's the latest high-profile drug violation in horse racing , which was rocked last year by the indictments of two trainers and 25 others in a far-ranging doping scandal.
Changes are coming to standardize medication in horse racing after years, but a law passed by the U. Congress doesn't go into effect until next year. It is a steroid used to reduce inflammation in the horse's joints and is not considered a performance enhancing drug. But it can give horses an advantage over those without betamethasone in their system who wouldn't feel the therapeutic effects while racing. It is the same substance found in Baffert-trained filly Gamine, leading to her disqualification from third place in the Kentucky Oaks.
Baffert did not appeal that ruling. The trainer, who has denied giving the steroid to Medina Spirit, has cited contamination as a reason for this and previous violations.
Betamethasone is a Class C drug that is allowed in Kentucky as a therapeutic. But Medina Spirit's test results postrace violates Kentucky state law that limits the use of the steroid to 14 days or more before a race.
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