Medina Spirit’s victory earlier this month at the Kentucky Derby is in jeopardy of being revoked after the horse failed a drug test following the race.
That seems like a pretty easy thing to understand – if you cheat and get caught then you pay the consequences, right?
Well, the horse’s trainer, Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, doesn’t think it’s as simple as that as he came out on Monday and blabbered about how cancel culture is the thing to blame for the predicament that he and his horse find themselves in.
For real. He thinks cancel culture is to blame for this!
Bob Baffert blamed "cancel culture" after his horse, Medina Spirit, who won the Kentucky Derby, failed its post-race drug test.
"We live in a different world now. This America's different." pic.twitter.com/bsQeiV7oXi
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 10, 2021
Come on, bro.
Twitter had lots of jokes:
“Hey, who knows how stuff gets in horses’ bodies? Anybody could inject one of my horses with anything and I’d never know!”
—the world’s most famous horse trainer https://t.co/hZYsf4oO0f
— Ty Schalter (@tyschalter) May 10, 2021
I wish Barry Bonds used this excuse. “hey, I’m asleep like 8 hours a night. Anyone could just come in and inject me with something.” https://t.co/Mz3I9JdR9A
— Peter Bukowski (@Peter_Bukowski) May 10, 2021
same thing happened to Roger Clemens once. hate to see it. https://t.co/dlqcfJX2Dc
— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) May 10, 2021
Ah yes, the classic “guy on my staff peed in the horse’s stall after taking cough medicine irrespective of my prior reputation as a horse doper” defense. Heard it all before Baffert! https://t.co/hfqIken9Vl
— The Trillbillies (@thetrillbillies) May 10, 2021
This is quite a “what had happened was … “ https://t.co/2Ea8eQBH0m
— David Hinojosa (@hinojosa_david) May 10, 2021
"No Mom. Those weren't my beer cans. Those were Richie Swain's." – Me in 1997 https://t.co/IMPD9YGYjd
— Zac Jackson (@AkronJackson) May 10, 2021
Who pees on hay you’re feeding a horse?! WTF?! https://t.co/nhL0Ogu7mb
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) May 10, 2021
I need to be fed all of this content. I will never stop. https://t.co/1aphhw9PEE
— Adam Kramer (@KegsnEggs) May 10, 2021
When a horse gets cancelled, it’s called a “scratch.”
— ANTIFAldo (@ANTIFAldo) May 10, 2021
Found the culprit https://t.co/7P6CkMP6pM
— Bunkie Perkins (@BunkiePerkins) May 10, 2021
Cancel culture lost its meaning long ago but now it’s officially dead and meaningless. https://t.co/Tl0ua2PKtu
— A.J. Schneider (@AJ_Schneider) May 10, 2021
If you want proof that complains about "cancel culture" are mostly about certain people no longer being able to get away with stuff, here you go https://t.co/GuEcK7TfVE
— Ian Schafer (@ischafer) May 10, 2021
Ridiculous. Come on. If your horse tests positive for a banned substance and you get caught there are consequences. It’s called right and wrong. Not “cancel culture”. Lol. https://t.co/x3HUU8qhvQ
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 10, 2021
