'It's not my problem' - Bob Baffert's drug claim rings a bell closer to home

As he dropped a bombshell to reporters huddled around him on the backstretch at Churchill Downs last weekend, trainer Bob Baffert defiantly insisted that “there are problems in racing but it’s not Bob Baffert”.

It was a great American line, delivered by a charismatic individual who had decided to take matters into his own hands after receiving news that Medina Spirit, his winner of his country’s biggest race, the Kentucky Derby, had tested positive for the corticosteroid betamethasone.

However, while it sounded good, it was wrong. Or, to be more accurate, not entirely right. Baffert is a problem for the sport and his continued infringement of the rules may well be undermining public trust and confidence in international racing.