Trainer Cox suspended in Kentucky for horse’s failed test

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky horse racing stewards have suspended Brad Cox, coach of 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Mandaloun, for 10 days with a $500 fantastic and disqualified colt Warrior’s Cost for a failed postrace drug take a look at after the Stephen Foster Stakes final June at Churchill Downs.

The take a look at discovered Warrior’s Cost had 2.51 micrograms per milliliter of phenylbutazone in his blood after the Grade 2 race on June 26 through which he completed 3 1/4 lengths behind Maxfield.

Cox, a Louisville native, waived his listening to earlier than the Kentucky Horse Racing Fee board of stewards, which issued the ruling on Sunday. Cox will serve the suspension from Might 23-June 1 and forfeit $115,200 in purse cash. Wagering won’t be affected.

Cox’s colt Mandaloun was elevated to Derby winner in February following the KHRC’s disqualification of now-deceased colt Medina Spirit for a failed postrace drug take a look at. The KHRC suspended Corridor of Fame coach Bob Baffert for 90 days by way of early June and fined him $7,500 for a collection of failed assessments by his horses. Baffert is suing Churchill Downs in federal court docket, in search of to overturn its two-year suspension by way of mid-2023.

Medina Spirit died in December following a exercise at Santa Anita in California. A necropsy discovered no definitive trigger for his dying.