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  • From: billie shears via Derby
  • Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:32:43 -0700 (PDT)
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    [Derby] D.WAYNE


https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/horse-racing/2022/04/24/bob-baffert-d-wayne-lukas-kentucky-derby-horse-trainer-suspension/7423134001/


Bob Baffert was warned.

His friend, rival and former Kentucky Horse Racing Commission member D. Wayne Lukas thought Baffert was battling the odds “from the get-go” in fighting his suspensions from the state commission and the home of the Kentucky Derby.

“I told him, ‘Any other state, like Arkansas,’” Lukas said Saturday morning at Churchill Downs. “But here, with the grandest of all (races) in the state of Kentucky, with the whole world watching, I thought he’d have a hell of a time overturning any of those judges.

“And they all made that same comment: ‘The flagship industry of the state.’ Every one of them said that. That’s where their heart was.”………………………………………
“I thought the whole thing should have lasted three days,” Lukas said. “We didn’t need to bring it to the public, which is uninformed, for eight months. That was the thing that I think was negative about it. The end result was the same anyhow. You knew that Churchill was not going to make a ruling of that magn“

I knew he(baffert) was in trouble. The lawyers kept telling him he had a great chance here, great chance there. But I was a commissioner here and on the commission you’ve got five or six guys that are very, very knowledgeable, including one veterinarian. And then you’ve got a lot of them who don’t understand any more than the guy selling cars downtown.”……………………………………………

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