The Comments Section: Your Reactions To Medina Spirit's Derby DQ
Over a year after permanently disabling comments on The Paulick Report, the comments section is back! Well, sort of. We can't fire up story comments again. The number of hours our staff was collectively losing in moderation was too great, and the few bad actors out there made it too labor-intensive to continue, even as we tried many different systems to combat them.
The good news is, we are still including reader voices here on the Paulick Report with this feature. Read a previous edition here.
Nearly 300 days after the 2021 Kentucky Derby, it appears we finally have an official winner. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission stewards announced on Monday that first-place finisher Medina Spirit would be disqualified from the race for a betamethasone overage. Trainer Bob Baffert also faces a 90-day suspension connected to the positive, pending a likely appeal. Read the story here.
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If the result stands as announced, this means Mandaloun is the 2021 Kentucky Derby winner, and Baffert could potentially be suspended through the Triple Crown season.
In this edition of The Comments Section, we've collected the many takes we've seen on social media and in our inboxes regarding the ruling, and its implications for the present and future.
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