Originally Posted by regnis View Post
While I am not a Baffert apologist, there are a lot of issues on this "drugging" that will never be solved. The best defense is always the claim that it was environmental contamination (in this case jimson weed), as it is hard to prove otherwise. I don't believe this case will go anywhere.


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you might be right, but apparently they allow for a certain amount of the drug to be in the system as a result of environmental contamination
but the NYT story stated that there was 4 times the allowable amount - that might be hard to defend


from the drf.com article:

"The New York Times stated that the concentration of the substance found in Justify’s sample was 300 nanograms per milliliter. Racing commissions consider a concentration above 75 nanograms as a positive, so that concentration would have triggered additional testing and a regulatory complaint. "


the underlying issue, of course, is if they did nothing, to justify doing nothing they will need the public's trust


and no effing way racetrack management can generate trust from the betting public or the non betting public




https://www.drf.com/news/california-...ify-test?type=

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