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Won on the first of may, giving his trainer, bob baffert, a record seventh victory in the race. baffert now revealed that the horse tested positive for a banned substance after the race. he strongly denies wrongdoing. mark lobel reports. man: here he is! "here he is", indeed, trainer bob baffert parades his long—shot kentucky derby record—breaking winner, medina spirit, describing this latest twist as the biggest gut punch in racing for something he claims he didnt do. all i can tell you is ...

>> good morning to you, bill. bob baffert says it is all an injustice and he plans on racing medina spirit in the preakness stakes coming up in baltimore this saturday ahead of the big race here at belmont park in new york. it all depends on what happens next here. after medina spirit won the kentucky derby the horse tested positive for the anti-inflammatory steroid. according to churchill downs there will be a second test. it is called a split sample. but the hall of fame trainer has been suspe...

Tolerate it. baffert is denying any wrongdoing. listen. >> i got the biggest gut punch in racing for something i didnt do. this is really disturbing. it is an injustice to the horse. i feel like here you win a race and you are still not to me -- i dont know whats going on in racing right now. there is something not right. >> if the horse is disqualified it will be stripped of the derby title and 1.86 million purse. the good news for the betters, bill, no matter what happens, they get to keep the...

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Really ridiculously low levels. ive been saying it for over a year now. it will get innocent people in trouble and this is what has happened now. >> dana: what recourse do you have or how do you go about to try to prove your innocence? >> well, we are going to just fight this. it has happened before. it happened with the triple crown winner same thing. he ingested -- there is a process we went through it and we finally resolved that and resolved one in arkansas. it happens and you dont hear bi i...

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Tested positive for an anti-inflammatory steroid. according to churchill downs, there will be a second test what is called a split sample. baffert has been suspended from entering any horse at that particular track. now baffert announced on americas newsroom that hes doing dna testing to see if this was a false positive or if the horse was somehow contaminated another way. >> he went from the derby after the derby, everybody is up there touching him. so many ways these horses can get contaminate...

About the bombshell divorce as the gates as melinda looked at a separation as early as 2019. the question today did jeffrey epstein play a role in that decision? plus there is this. >> its complete injustice and im going to fight it tooth and nail because this horse, you know, i owe it to the horse, i owe it to the owner and i owe it to our industry. >> dana: legendary horse trainer baffert. the rest of -- bob ert joins us next on the controversy. cash.rn your home o because home values have cli...

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