Justify Failed Drug Test Before Derby

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Originally Posted by Kasept

Jimsonweed hardly shady. Mandella has dealt with one of these as well. I'd trust Dr. Arthur in California about the incident rather than disgruntled sky-is-falling resource Dr. Sams in Kentucky.

Funny that CA Equine Medical Director Arthur, a frequent contributor to Times pieces in the past, isn't utilized at all. Bill Finley talked to Arthur though: http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com...tory-nonsense/

The overage isn’t the big issue here, although I find it hard to believe if the horse was trained by someone else and won a maiden claimer that he wouldn’t have been DQ’d. 4 times the legal limit is a lot. Just more bad luck for Baffert I guess.

The issue is the coverup. Let’s assume the overage is contaminated feed. Why was everything handled in the dark? Why did it take an article from Drape, who I don’t think many would defend, 15 months later for people to find out? When a regulatory board operates that way it should concern everyone. What else is being handled like that we don’t know about?