From Star to Scandal: the Tale of Medina Spirit

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Brenda Elsey brings you a special Burn It All Down episode. Horseracing is undergoing exceptional drama this year sparked by Kentucky Derby star and scandal Medina Spirit and his trainer Bob Baffert. Brenda interviews three experts in the horse racing world: Joe Drape, New York Times reporter, Dr. Megan Kerford, racetrack veterinarian, and Dr. Katherine Mooney, associate professor at Florida state and author of "Race Horse Men" to understand the history, the breaking news and the future of the sport. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Music in this episode is by Ketsa. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down. And while we're still a scream and show you. I get to burn it all down. It's the feminist sports podcast you need. I'm co-host Brenda Elsie. And while we're still on vacation for June, I get to step in this week and do a little special mini episode.
0:23.9	We will be back real soon in July with regularly scheduled content.
0:33.3	When the Kentucky Derby doping scandal involving winter Medina Spirit and his trainer Bob Baffer erupted in May,
0:40.7	like a lot of people, I didn't really understand what on earth was happening.
0:44.9	So I talked to three experts in the horse racing world and an entire universe unfolded that I never knew existed.
0:52.2	So buckle up flamethrowers for a story about sex, drugs, and hay.
1:00.9	Medina Spirit, a thoroughbred full, was born on April 5, 2018, to Protonico and Mongolian
1:08.7	Changa in Ocala, Florida.
1:14.3	Medina Spirit boasts a decent pedigree, including Secretariat, who still holds the fastest
1:20.2	Kentucky Derby time from 1973. But Medina Spirit's parents hadn't performed up to expectations,
1:29.5	and he simply didn't look like a winner.
1:35.2	At auction, he fetched a mere thousand dollars, which is chump change in horse racing.
1:38.1	Top yearlings can sell well into the millions. A year in, Medina Spirit started to show potential, what trainers call precocity, competitiveness and speed,
1:47.0	and he became a good fit to help his cohort train.
1:50.0	Bricklea by Protonico and Magnolian Chunga by Brilliant Speed, subject to the Florida cell stacks.
1:57.0	Word spread about the Colt and Saudi venture capitalist Amur Zadan snatched him up for $35,000.
2:05.6	At 35 thanks, Wood 37, see you down the road, 3537 and I have Ralph 35,000.
2:10.6	Two-year-old thoroughbred prices range pretty widely, topping out at $16 million, but by all accounts, $35,000 is well below the average.
2:21.4	Here's Amr Zadhan on Dubai Racing.
2:25.4	He showed signs of ability all the way when we picked them up on the sale.
2:31.1	If you really take a deep dive and synthetically, it screams distance.
2:36.3	The Dark Bay Colt is named after Zadhan's home city of Medina, one of the holiest sites
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