Bob Baffert outside the U.S. Courthouse in Louisville on Feb. 3, 2023.
Bob Baffert outside the U.S. Courthouse in Louisville on Feb. 3, 2023.
ERIC CRAWFORDA federal judge admonished Bob Baffert's attorney over an apparent allegation that the court had improper communications with members of the Churchill Downs legal team.
In a 36-page opinion Friday, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings ruled against Baffert.
The 2021 Kentucky Derby is not quite in the backstretch, but it perhaps reached the far turn on Tuesday when the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission upheld a hearing officer’s decision to disqualify Medina Spirit as winner of the Derby on the basis of a positive post-race drug test.