Medina Spirit Stripped Of Kentucky Derby Title
Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) officials Monday stripped late thoroughbred Medina Spiritof its 2021 Kentucky Derby victory and suspended its Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert for 90 days and fined him $7,500. The nearly year-long drama concludes after a recent hearing before a three-member panel of KHRC stewards, which ended with the ruling that Medina Spirit—who died in December at Santa Anita Park (Calif.)—is DQ’d after a positive test for a banned corticosteroid (betamethasone) after last year’s Derby. Betamethasone is commonly used to reduce swelling and pain. “Medina Spirit is dis...