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Sports Illustrated reports: Journalism lost today—literally. In the 151st Kentucky Derby Saturday, Sovereignty won the Run for the Roses over pre-race favorite Journalism. Sovereignty, who entered the race with 9-to-1 odds, pulled ahead of the 19-horse pack alongside Journalism as they rounded for the race’s final quarter-mile stretch. Sovereignty was too much for Journalism and third-place finisher Baeza to keep …

The Racing Post reports: Trainer Jason Servis was sentenced to four years in prison on Wednesday for doping horses in his care. Servis was accused of administering adulterated and misbranded performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), including one called SGF-1000, to “virtually all of the racehorses under his control”. Some of the PEDs used, manufactured or distributed were alleged to be undetectable in …

Louisville’s ABC News affiliate reports: For the second time in the 147-year history of the Kentucky Derby, a winner was disqualified for a drug infraction. Bob Baffert’s Medina Spirit, who crossed the finish line first on May 1, 2021, but later tested positive for betamethasone, a corticosteroid banned on race days in Kentucky, was disqualified after a second race day …

The New York Times reports: The Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit’s post-race positive drug test was confirmed, setting the stage for the colt trained by Bob Baffert [photo] to be the second horse in the 147-year history of America’s greatest race to be disqualified for a failed drug test. Immediately after announcing Medina Spirit’s positive test on May 9, Baffert …

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: Bob Baffert acknowledged Tuesday morning Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit was treated with an anti-fungal ointment called Otomax, which includes betamethasone. Baffert announced Sunday that Medina Spirit tested positive for betamethasone, which has put his Kentucky Derby victory in jeopardy. Betamethasone is anti-inflammatory drug that otherwise is legal but is illegal when found in the blood …

“Racing has a problem, Bob Baffert is not the problem. Bob Baffert is not stupid. I haven’t heard anything officially. They haven’t told me anything. “I know when Churchill Downs came out with that statement, that was pretty harsh. And I think they had to just—with all the noise going on, we live in a different world now. “This America …

The New York Times reports: Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a post-race drug test, once more putting the practices of his Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert under uncomfortable scrutiny. The colt cannot be disqualified until a split sample confirms the result. Baffert will then have an opportunity to appeal. If disqualified, Medina Spirit would be stripped of the …