Medina Spirit’s body is now headed to a lab in San Bernardino run by the University of California at Davis, where a series of forensic tests will try to determine what killed him, according to ...

Medina Spirit was only three years old, equivalent to nine in human years. “Horses are fully mature at age six,” Battuello says. “The bones in their neck and spine are the last to finish.

Medina Spirit, the disputed winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby, died Monday of a heart attack after a workout at Santa Anita Park, trainer Bob Baffert said. “My entire barn is devastated by this ...

Medina Spirit, the thoroughbred colt whose 2021 Kentucky Derby win is in peril due to a failed drug test, will be allowed to run in this Saturday's Preakness Stakes, the second leg of horse racing ...

Medina Spirit was not the first Kentucky Derby winner to experience sudden death in the same year as his win. In 1984, Swale collapsed and died nine days after winning the Belmont Stakes and a ...

Medina Spirit is interred alongside two other Derby winners, War Emblem and Charismatic. The farm, which bills itself as “horse racing’s living history museum,” was founded and is run by ...

Medina Spirit is the youngest first-place Derby finisher to die since 1984, when Swale died suddenly after a workout that June 17, eight days after winning the Belmont Stakes.

Medina Spirit, the racehorse whose victory in the 2021 Kentucky Derby had been called into question by a failed post-race drug test, may have died of a heart attack but a necropsy report was ...

Medina Spirit (number 8 on the right) on the way to winning the 2021 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 1, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. A week after the Derby, ...

Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit underwent three rounds of blood-sample testing between May 6 and May 11 – and the first test showed the animal was clear of both prohibited and therapeutic ...

Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit can race in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes after the final two rounds of blood samples from the horse were deemed clear, officials said Friday.

The news comes not long after Medina Spirit provided a record seventh Kentucky Derby win for trainer Bob Baffert, the affable, 68-year-old king of horse racing.