Judge rules against attempt to get Bob Baffert-trained horse into 2024 Kentucky Derby
The attempt to allow Bob Baffert to run a horse in this year’s Kentucky Derby was denied in a ruling by Jefferson County, Ky. judge Mitch Perry on Thursday seemingly ending a last-ditch effort by owner Amr Zedan to get Arkansas Derby winner Muth into the 150th running of the most famous horse race in the country, if not the world. The court did deny the effort by Churchill Downs to have the suit dismissed while at the same time denying a temporary injunction that would have allowed the horse to run on May 4. The suit can continue but that won’t change the fact that there is likely not enough time to allow any Baffert trainees into the Derby. In the 10-page ruling, Perry noted that a horse is “only eligible for [the Kentucky Derby] once in its lifetime. But it pointed to the fact that Zedan Racing Stables “has transferred its horses to a different trainer and those horses have been eligible to run in the Derby the previous two years. For the 2024 racing season, [Zedan] voluntarily made the decision to not