Which jockey won the kentucky derby

Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, who provided trainer Bob Baffert with a record seventh win in the race, has failed a drugs test. Baffert said he was "shocked" after the horse tested above the limit for betamethasone and insisted he had never administered the substance.

The Hall of Fame trainer repeated the hat-trick with Justify three years later. But on Sunday, he told reporters that Medina Spirit had tested positive for 21 picograms of the anti-inflammatory drug betamethasone, above Kentucky racing's threshold.

I don't feel embarrassed, I feel like I was robbed," said the California-based trainer. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but why is it happening to me? Baffert said Medina Spirit has not yet been officially disqualified from the Kentucky Derby, although that still could happen after other tests and processes are completed. It didn't come from us. Churchill Downs has suspended Baffert from having entries for races. Churchill Downs will not tolerate it. The trainer last year pledged "to do better" after a number of positive tests were produced from his horses.

Last month he was successful in overturning a day ban and disqualification of two of his horses - Gamine and Charlatan - after they returned samples containing the illicit raceday medication lidocaine, which was attributed to cross-contamination from a pain-relief patch worn by the trainer's assistant. Tap into a heart-to-heart between Kevin and Stacey about persistence in the face of difficulties. Eight players battle on The Tournament in nail-biting tug-of-war quiz matches, hosted by Alex Scott.

Horse Racing Results Calendar. Trainer Bob Baffert congratulates jockey John Velazquez after Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby earlier this month Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, who provided trainer Bob Baffert with a record seventh win in the race, has failed a drugs test. Top Stories. With his fourth career Derby win, Velazquez moved into a tie with Bill Shoemaker for third place on the all-time win list for jockeys. I just want to come and do my job. He became just the eighth jockey to win the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby in the same weekend and the first to accomplish the double since after winning the Oaks Friday on Malathaat.

I want to come back next year again. Only three jockeys have won the Derby at age 45 or older. Velazquez, 49, has done it twice. Only Bill Shoemaker 54 and Mike Smith 52 have won the run for the roses at an older age. The back-to-back Derby wins both came on Baffert-trained horses. Authentic and Medina Spirit won by getting to the lead early, but Velazquez said the strategies were slightly different because of a more advantageous post position this year.

The more I looked at the race, the more I studied the race, I knew he was faster than the other horses, especially the way he breaks out of the gate. Velazquez has twice won the Belmont Stakes but has never won the Preakness.