What’s your racing pet peeve? Mine is horseplayers who will claim everyone is cheating, the jockey the picture, the track instead of just admitting they can’t pick a winner. Quit blaming everyone else dbag & just look in the mirror lol
@RacingRachelM Tweeted this right after the Derby and people told me I was being a sore loser and they would see me tomorrow. Well a few weeks later, we found what was going on. In 17 years of watching races, I have never seen any horse do what Medina did. #rebreak
@scanman614 @RacingRachelM No reasonable person can seriously believe the rash ointment had any effect on his performance. No one challenged Medina Spirit for the lead, so it's perfectly understandable how he won. There was no "rebreak" and no need to spin up wild explanations out of your own imagination.
@NagleMary @scanman614 @RacingRachelM Mary Nagle it doesn’t matter if it helped or not It is not meant to be in the horses system when they get tested. If you had 3 beers and was driving home and killed someone even if you say you weren’t drunk your still over the limit and will go to jail.
@NagleMary @scanman614 @RacingRachelM No one believes rash ointment was the cause of the betamethasone positive, esp since his other horses were injected in their joints with it and tested positive near same levels! Corticosteroids in joints are potent antiinflammatories with PE effects if horse has soreness issues
@NagleMary @scanman614 @RacingRachelM Read up on some science instead of believing a statement some paid attorney made about where the betameth came from. The proof or lack there of remains to be seen
@NagleMary @scanman614 @RacingRachelM MOST people, i believe likely even BB, found it pretty fucking “wild” that Medina Spirit won the Derby. There certainly was no pre race mention of that feeling going in to the race
@NagleMary @scanman614 @RacingRachelM To those that have followed this closely, it never was about whether it affected performance, it was about how the rule as written does not allow any amount to be in the horses post race sample. What will be argued is whether a "mitigating circumstances" defense will fly.