Bob Baffert, with his trademark white hair, will return to a Triple Crown race for the first time since 2021. The 2x Triple Crown winner will go for a record eighth Preakness win with National Treasure, a fourth-place finisher in the Santa Anita Derby.
26m agoAlong with the colorful silks and chestnut of the colts themselves, a familiar shock of white will be on hand for this Saturday’s Preakness Stakes. Bob Baffert, with his trademark white hair, will return to a Triple Crown race for the first time since 2021. The two-time Triple Crown winner will go for a record eighth Preakness win with National Treasure, a fourth-place finisher in the Santa Anita Derby.The race itself will be secondary to Baffert’s presence at the racetrack.
Even now, he remains steadfast that he was unjustly painted as a rulebreaker and vilified by people because the industry did not properly explain what happened to his horse. Medina Spirit tested positive for betamethasone, a corticosteroid. The anti-inflammatory is permissible for therapeutic use, but cannot be present in a horse on race day. The horse tested positive for 12 pictograms; the legal limit is 10.
Forte’s trainer, Todd Pletcher, has since been suspended for 10 days after the New York State Gaming Association disqualified the colt from a September win due to a positive test for a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory. “No one came to my aid, but I’ll come to Todd’s aid on this one,” Baffert said. “He had a tough go with that horse. I’m with him on this one.”
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