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Trainer Bob Baffert stands with Medina Spirit outside his barn on the backside of Churchill Downs on May 2, 2021, the day after the colt crossed the finish line first in the Kentucky Derby. Medina Spirit tested positive for a substance banned on race day and was later disqualified from that Derby win. The horse died in December 2021. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS)This year’s historic 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville will, once again, be absent of the biggest name in modern horse racing.
Originally published at Tribune News Service