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The first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown came with some controversy, but in the overall scheme of things it is not as big a deal as it might have seemed at first glance. The horse was not on anabolic steroids. His blood sample showed traces of a substance used to help decrease inflammation and mask pain, and it is actually a legal substance to use, although it is supposed to be out of the horse’s system before race day, so you do not have a positive test. It was a trace amount in a jurisdiction that allows a lower level of that substance than most others. (Kentucky allows none.) With that said, Bob Baffert has done himself no favors by being defiant about it. In the end, the horse did test at a higher level than is acceptable, the rules are widely known, and it is ultimately Baffert’s fault whether he wants to take the blame or not. ....