Nothin’ to see here! Interesting OTHER racing scandals!
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I hate to say it, but I think - as far as outlandish excuses go - this jumper rider has outdone Bob Baffert.
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Someone posted the story below on another thread. It ties into what you posted (“1977: A doctor fakes a horse’s death”) but the scandal goes WAY beyond that and involves the vet’s associate and Pleasant Colony. It really should be a Dateline or 48 Hours episode.
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I’m the one who linked that story; it has its own thread:
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This cannot surprise anyone!
I wish that more people understood commas…
Judge Wingate also delivered an order Wednesday calling for the KHRC to retain five milliliters while the remainder is used for further testing. He called for at least two commission representatives to travel to the lab, previously reported by BloodHorse to be the New York Drug Testing and Research Program in Ithaca, N.Y., on a flight with the sample funded by the plaintiffs.
Can’t speak for The Bloodhorse, but I’m a lost cause as far as commas are concerned.
Perfect example of “we don’t care how it got there, you’re DQ’d”:
I believe her. Nandrolone is EXTREMELY androgenic/virilizing to women, for one thing. If she were taking it for performance enhancement, there would be some telltale masculinization going on.
Anti-doping officials don’t care how it got there.
It’s on the trainer (in this case the athlete too) to know how anything going into the body might affect a drug test. It’s why you don’t want to give your airline pilot friend a lemon poppyseed cake for her birthday.
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Headline tomorrow:
“This just learned: Groom fed Medina Spirit a burrito!”
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Never in his life did that judge think he would preside over a case on how to divide up horse piss 
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At the risk of going too far down a tangent - many, including myself, don’t buy Shelby Houlihan’s excuse, because there are some big big holes in it. I’d say she is as suspicious as Baffert.
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Nope! His owner gave him super falafel!! The kind with 'roids!!
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Should have clarified I don’t believe she was injecting nandrolone. It’s more virilizing to women than exogenous testosterone.
The pork burrito excuse may well be as flimsy as the Otomax ointment one from the Baffert camp.
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I read an article today in the Washington post that had very interesting things to say about ole Bob. Maybe @ASB_Stars has seen it and link to it (I don’t know how to do that on my phone). What I found very interesting was that, for quite some time, Bob will accept a fine but no suspensions
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This is t
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This is vile. Sonofabeech.
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I am not (no longer) a Baffert fan. However, in the interests of fairness (maybe), here is a link to a response to the WaPo article.
I KNEW that vet was Rick Arthur before I even clicked the link! I would not be surprised if Baffert has him on his payroll; Arthur has been kissing his behind for years.
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Way back when I had my one racehorse at Longacres, we had to be cleared by the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau (TRPB). I had to be fingerprinted and told that my fingerprints would be kept on file in D.C., they would run a background check on us (exDH and I) and that the purpose of the bureau was to keep the people in racing on the straight and narrow––to keep everyone honest.
So what does the TRPB actually do? Yes, there is stuff on their website, but in today’s real world, The mission statement seems outdated. I don’t see them doing much of anything these days. I guess if they don’t tattoo, then switching horses would come back, so yes, keep tattoos, but with all this going on with Baffert, not one peep about the TRPB saying or doing a thing. The tracks that Baffert races at are TRPB member tracks. Shouldn’t they have some sort of authority power? From what I was told way back when, and from their current website, it would seem that they should.
Is the TRPB just complacent? What gives?
This is the first time I’ve ever heard of the TRPB. I had no idea they existed. This snippet from their home page: “The TRPB, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of North America” provides a link supposedly to the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of NA that instead took me to a page offering advice on how to straighten hair. 
So their website is sadly out of date. I’m thinking they probably don’t do much anymore.
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