Owner Amr Zedan files suit in Kentucky that says his Bob Baffert-trained horses should be allowed to run in Derby because trainer ban was only two years.
Is it possible that Bob Baffert will have at least one horse in this year’s Kentucky Derby? Maybe, it all rests with an as yet unselected Jefferson County, Ky., judge. On Wednesday, Amr Zedan, one of Baffert’s biggest clients, filed suit in Louisville seeking a temporary injunction that would allow Zedan horses, and others trained by Baffert, to run in the May 4 Kentucky Derby. Baffert is not a party to the lawsuit.
'While I am not a plaintiff in the lawsuit recently brought by Zedan Racing Stables against Churchill Downs, I would like nothing more than for the horses I train to have an opportunity to run at Churchill Downs,' Baffert told The Times in a text. The suit was not subtle in who it viewed as the villain: Bill Carstanjen, CDI chief executive, who it accused as “pursuing a crazed vendetta at the expense of letting fair, healthy competition run its course.
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