Bob Baffert testament non have got his 90-day abatement stayed as he appeals the ruling stewards made regarding disqualified Bluegrass State Derby victor Medina Spirit. That was the conclusion of the Bluegrass State Horse Racing Commission, which met inward a specially called group meeting on Friday to deliberate Baffert’s request.

Earlier inwards the week, Baffert and his attorneys went before a adjudicate inward Frankfort, asking that the suspension be postponed. That’s as he challenges the finding Al Madinah Spirit had undue amounts of betamethasone in his scheme when the colt ruined foremost inwards endure year’s Kentucky Derby. Friday’s coming together came about from that hearing. But at present Benjamin Franklin Circuit Judge Dylan Marlais Thomas Wingate testament try the caseful on March 17 to ascertain if a stay should live issued.

The suspension was supposed to take up this Tuesday. However, it will remain in limbo until Judge Wingate makes his ruling, which he is supposed to make within days after the March 17 hearing.

The timing is significant. Because of reciprocity rules, a dangling handed mastered in ace say is recognized in all others. Without a stay, the 90-day ban would create Baffert ineligible to field horses in upcoming KY Derby prep races – some of which are considered major races on their own – as advantageously as the Preakness Stakes, the arcsecond gem inwards racing’s Triple Crown.

In improver to the suspension, Baffert was also fined $7,500. With Al Madinah Spirit later disqualified as the race’s winner, stewards also ruled the Zedan Stables, owners of the belatedly colt, must throw overboard the nearly $1.9 million inward purse money as well.

Baffert Files Two Suits

With the KHRC decision not to egress a stay, it way that the Radclyffe Hall of Fame purebred trainer now must fighting a sound battle on deuce fronts. That’s in order to experience a chance to potentially field of operation horses inwards this year’s KY Derby.

After Al Madinah Spirit’s initial dose mental test came indorse positive, Winston Churchill Downs Inc. proclaimed its own respite against the trainer. The Louisville-based keep company prohibited Baffert for deuce years, non just from its namesake track, but all of the company’s racing facilities. Further, First Duke of Marlborough Downs also banned Baffert’s horses from earning any points inward Derby prep races.

That penalization has non kept the trainer from entering horses inwards those races, but it has affected the standings to an extent.

On the twenty-four hours before Baffert had a auditory sense inward Franklin Circuit Margaret Court this week, the trainer filed a causa against Winston Churchill Downs Inc. inwards an exertion to capture the two-year forbiddance struck down. Baffert claims inward the suit he was denied due process, patch John Churchill Downs called the filing baseless.

At this point, Baffert’s attorneys are looking for at the cases optimistically, as they get claimed their client has non received a fair throw off from either the data track or Bluegrass State regulators. They reacted in disbelief after the commission denied a stick around last calendar week and on Friday.

The saving good will is eventually we testament be before an unbiassed adjudicator,” Kenneth Clark Brewster told Casino.org inwards an email Friday.

Baffert also faces a possible respite from the New York Racing Association. That manipulator handed pull down its have hiatus last twelvemonth after the First Duke of Marlborough Downs ban. However, a federal justice ruled in favor of the trainer last year, expression NYRA failed to apply Baffert a chance to hold himself.

NYRA held that audition inwards January, and a determination is pending.

“Lance Satchmo of Horse Racing”

Baffert has threesome horses running in Derby prep races on Saturday. John Davison Rockefeller testament run in the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct inward New York, patch Doppleganger and Armagnac are scheduled to proceed in the San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita.

While the 3-year-olds capture the to the highest degree attention because of the Bluegrass State Derby, Baffert does feature a big stable of other horses that race primarily come out of his California base. Brewster told the KHRC Fri that Baffert has 88 horses, and a three-month hiatus would live devastating to the trainer’s surgical procedure and to the workers below him.

Brewster did non get under one's skin a appealing capitulum from commissioning members. Nor did he let ace from Marty Irby, executive director managing director for Animal Wellness Action. Irby, who played a important role inwards getting the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act passed past Congress, said Baffert is eventually “facing the consequences,” and that punishing him tin can follow a pivotal instant for the sport.

“Bob Baffert is the Lance Louis Armstrong of horse racing and has riddled the sportswoman with dirt after scandal, unchecked for years,” Irby said.

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