Medina Spirit, winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby, fails drug test
The horse's trainer, Bob Baffert, announced the news in a press conference on Sunday morning.
In a news conference Sunday morning, Baffert said the winning horse tested positive for 21 picograms of betamethasone, 11 picograms above the legal limit in Kentucky, NBC Lexington, Kentucky affiliate WLEX said.
"Yesterday, I got the biggest gut punch in racing for something I didn't do,” Baffert said, according to WLEX. "It's disturbing. It's an injustice for the horse."
Baffert said he didn’t know why Medina would have tested positive for the drug and called the incident “a complete adjustment.”
The test doesn’t automatically disqualify Medina Spirit, as Derby officials await results from another sample to come back before making a decision.
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