Pour Medina Spirit’s positive test ‘down the sink?’

By JASON FRAKES | Louisville Courier Journal | 13 May 2021 BALTIMORE – Social media was buzzing Wednesday evening after D. Wayne Lukas defended fellow trainer Bob Baffert and suggested regulators who found betamethasone in Medina Spirit’s blood “should probably have poured it down the sink.” The 85-year-old Lukas — six-time winner of the Preakness and among…

All that’s gold does not glitter

CAROLINA GOLD: THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM? by JANE ALLIN Carolina Gold, a drug that was banned in February of 2012 by the USEF (U.S. Equestrian Federation), has stealthily permeated the shedrows of North American horse racing tracks. In Part VI of a ”A Painful Truth” -- a six-part TDN (Thoroughbred Daily News) magazine series…