Bob Baffert Could Make Horse Racing Return at Monmouth Park Haskell
Horse trainer Bob Baffert put up take to the sportsman that he’s suit the human face of effectual Sunday, July 3.
The Bluegrass State Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) earliest this twelvemonth suspended Baffert for 90 days after Medina Spirit, the three-year-old colt who won the 2021 Kentucky Derby, tried and true prescribed for betamethasone after the race. Betamethasone is a prohibited steroid.
Baffert’s 90-day sanction from horse racing prohibited him from participating inwards the boast inward any of the 38 states that direct live racing. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Downs Inc., which owns and operates the KY Derby racetrack, took things much further by suspending Baffert from all of its races through and through its 2023 Spring Meet.
“Reckless practices and substance violations that jeopardize the refuge of our equine and human athletes or via media the wholeness of our athletics are not acceptable and as a companion we must submit measures to march that they testament non follow tolerated,” said Bill Carstanjen, Duke of Marlborough Downs Inc. CEO. “Mr. Baffert’s register of testing failures threatens public trust in thoroughbred racing and the report of the KY Derby.”
Along with beingness prohibited from the boast that has made him a household name, Baffert was fined $7,500 and Medina Spirit was stripped-down of his KY Derby win. Al Madinah Spirit collapsed and died inwards Dec 2021 after a workout. The display case of death was a suspected bosom attack.
Monmouth Mungo Park Return
Horse racing has benefited from the expanding upon of legal sports betting nationwide following the US Supreme Court’s May 2018 decision that concluded such gaming is a state’s right to influence its sound status — not the federal government’s.
Sports play has been well(p) for the equid industry past various means, including some states allocating sports betting taxes for horsemen. The summercater is also seeing renewed involvement after gaming regulators inward several states experience agreed to tolerate frozen odds on Equus caballus races.
With Baffert’s respite concluding this weekend, the two-time Triple Crown victor (2015 American Pharoah, 2018 Justify) could take back to Monmouth Mungo Park for the track’s one-year Haskell Stakes on July 23. Baffert has won the Haskell nine times, most of late in 2020 with Authentic.
I capture backrest to grooming on Sunday. I will cognize to a greater extent past Monday. i haven’t seen horses for 90 days,” Baffert told Horse Racing Nation regarding the Haskell.
Monmouth Park’s Dennis Drazin, chairman and CEO of Darby Development, which operates the New Jersey track, is a longtime friend to Baffert. Drazin hopes Baffert decides to get in the Haskell.
“Bob Baffert has been a exchange piece of making the Haskell what it is today and has always supported Monmouth Park, and erst his temporary removal ends he is welcome to add up to Monmouth Mungo Park and take part inward any of our races that he wishes,” Drazin told the Asbury Mungo Park Press.
Sports Betting Fight Origin
Regulated sports betting mightiness not be operational inwards the to a greater extent than 30 states that hold legalized such gaming if it were non for Drazin. The Monmouth Mungo Park brag helped spearhead New Jersey’s sound challenge of the federal forbiddance plunk for inward 2016.
Drazin argued that the federal jurisprudence — the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) — banning states from deciding the legality of sports betting was costing Monmouth Park tens of millions of dollars inwards missed sports betting revenue.
New Jersey voters approved regulating play on sports inward 2011 through and through a ballot referendum. Then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) signed a sports betting Federal Reserve note into jurisprudence ternary years later inwards 2014. But PASPA had superseded the say law, keeping the activity illegal.
The Supreme Margaret Court eventually upturned PASPA and gave sports betting rights indorse to the states.