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Bob Baffert claims groom taking cough medicine peed on hay in Medina Spirit’s stall and horse ate the hay, causing positive test

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Bob Baffert has a unique excuse for why Medina Spirit failed a drug test following the Kentucky Derby.

According to Baffert, a groom who was taking cough medicine urinated in the hay in Medina Spirit’s stall. The horse then ate the tainted hay, which led to the positive test.

Baffert says one test issue was created by a groom urinating in the stall after the groom had been taking cough medicine. Horse ate some of the hay.

Baffert also believes “cancel culture” played a role:

lol Bob Baffert went on Fox News and called the uproar about Medina Spirit’s failed drug test is a “cancel culture kind of a thing” pic.