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Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, who provided trainer, Bob Baffert with a record seventh win in the race, has failed a drug test.
Bob Baffert said he was “shocked” after the horse tested above the limit for betamethasone and insisted he had never administered the substance.
“I got the biggest gut punch in racing for something I didn’t do,” he said.
Medina Spirit, ridden by John Velazques, won America’s most famous race at Churchill Downs on 1 May.
According to BBC, Bob Baffert, 68, was the first trainer to win the US Triple Crown for 37 years when American Pharoah completed the treble of Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in 2015.
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