My name is Bob Baffert, and I will not be silenced, no matter how much my lawyers might like that. One of the horses I train, Medina Spirit, is facing disqualification for what authorities call an “excessive amount of the steroid betamethasone,” and what I call “winning the Kentucky Derby.”
Now some people don’t want Medina Spirit running in the Preakness. As I said on a media tour on Monday, this is “cancel culture.” Laugh all you want. But first they come for my horse, and then they come for your dog. Maybe even your cat. There is no telling with these people. As I said on Fox News on Monday, "We live in a different world now. This America's different." Imagine if cancel culture were around 250 years ago. People would yank Paul Revere off his horse so they could test the horse’s urine. We’d all be speaking British right now.
And on the subject of urine: As I said on Monday, one testing problem occurred when a groom took cough medicine and urinated in the stall, and then the horse ate some of the hay. I am not saying that this is what happened to Medina Spirit. I’m just saying that, like any other red-blooded American, I am really sick of the urination police. They can go piss up a rope. Or anywhere else, for all I care. I’m not a hypocrite.
https://www.si.com/horse-racing/2021/05/10/bob-baffert-medina-spirit-kentucky-derby-cancel-culture
TVG & Matt Carothers could not be more obvious in their defense of Baffert. Heaven forbid they say anything negative about the Messiah. They’re afraid he won’t give them access to his barn or interviews, afraid he won’t talk to them and we all know you can’t survive in racing if BB won’t talk to you. I waited to see if they even acknowledged what happened, and they didn’t til 12:15pst after Maryland said he may not be able to enter there. They said “til samples come back” well that takes more than 7 days, let’s see
