Weeks before the colt Justify won the 2018 Triple Crown, he failed a drug test that should have disqualified him. Instead, regulators buried it.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 6:42 PM EST
Instead of the failed drug test causing a speedy disqualification, the California Horse Racing Board took more than a month to confirm the results. Then it made a series of decisions behind closed doors as it moved to drop the case and change its rules, a shift that retroactively cleared the horse.
By then, Justify had become just the 13th Triple Crown winner in the last 100 years, and his owners had sold his breeding rights for $60 million.
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