T&C Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Baffert's appeal denied. https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/02/25/bob-baffert-s-stay-of-suspension-denied-by-khrc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/21/2022 at 11:12 PM, Marv's Neighbor said: $7500 fine??? Seriously? I think that's less than the mint julip at the derby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 4 hours ago, RaoulDuke79 said: I think that's less than the mint julip at the derby ….throw in the wifey’s hat, and it looks like a bargain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/03/01/bob-baffert-sues-churchill-downs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 34 minutes ago, T&C said: https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/03/01/bob-baffert-sues-churchill-downs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoTier Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Most Thoroughbred trainers who get caught in doping scandals tend to be trainers with cheap horses that struggle to bring back checks in the lowest claiming ranks of whatever track/tracks they race. These horses tend to be older and slower and often have chronic injuries. A lot of these trainers are struggling to keep themselves afloat financially and so try to use various drugs to improve their horses' performances. Bob Baffert doesn't have to drug horses in order to stay in business. He gets more than his share of the very best Thoroughbred race horses in the world. He simply believes that the end justifies the means. His record of doping incidents, especially with his very best runners in big races, is significantly higher than other premier American Thoroughbred trainers like Steve Asmussen, Todd Pletcher, and Chad Brown, all of whom have large strings of horses running all around the country under the supervision of assistant trainers just like Baffert. Baffert needs to stop making excuses and blaming everybody else but the man in charge, ie Bob Baffert. As Harry Truman said, "the buck stops here". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/07/10/bob-baffert-wins-big-in-return-from-long-suspension Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoTier Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 Contrary to the headline, these days $125k is a pretty paltry purse for a stakes races. On the same day as the Los Alamitos Derby, there were at least 7 stakes races run around the country worth at least $250k, topped by the $1 million Belmont Derby and the $700k Belmont Oaks Invitational (which are both run in New York where Baffert can't run his horses). On Sunday, Belmont ran 3 non-stakes races with purses over $90k each. Churchill Downs, which finished its meeting a week ago or so, has a purse structure similar to the big NY tracks Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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