Deadly to Horses: The Baffert Effect

[George II]

16. When he first switched from quarter horses to thoroughbreds a few decades ago he was very popular...

I liked him a lot. It was like he was countering the old blue-bloods in the sport. Then as they years went by he became more and more arrogant and disrespectful.

Now in the last 10 years or so he's had an unusual number of positive tests, even in high level stakes races. Always an excuse, "it wsa contaminate feed, my assistant had a lidocaine patch on his back, etc., etc."

HE is responsible for everything that happens in his barn He's been at this for decades, he should know better by now. But they coddle him in California, and he acts like he can get away with it everywhere else, too.