Medina Spirit saga shows how out-of-step horse racing is with other sports, where there are attempts to find those who are doping and punish them.

In what turned out to be the horse’s last race, Medina Spirit finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Classic Nov. 6 at Del Mar racetrack. Just over four weeks later, the 3-year-old colt was dead.

Yes, he was the captain of the Enterprise, but William Shatner is also a dedicated horseman and founder of the Hollywood Charity Horse Show. His love of horses is on display in his charming new book.

It is separate from the newsroom. On May 1, Medina Spirit, a horse trained by Bob Baffert, one of the stars of thoroughbred racing, somewhat unexpectedly won the Kentucky Derby.

When Bob Baffert’s horse is a 12-to-1 shot, maybe he’s worth some investment. At least that’s what Medina Spirit was trying to tell his trainer at the Derby on Saturday ...

Medina Spirit, its Kentucky Derby win cast into doubt after a positive drug test, will start from the third post position in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, the second leg of horse racing’s ...

Baffert’s horses have failed 30 drug tests — five in the last year or so — spurring chatter from rivals who believe he has cheated and gotten away with it in some of the sport’s biggest races.

“A horse has upwards of 50,000 milliliters of blood in the body,” said Dr. Mary Scollay, the executive director of the Lexington-based Racing Medication and Testing Consortium.

Janice Dapitan, left, speaks with Paige DePonte as a horse named Maverick stands nearby, as part of a philanthropy-supported equine therapy program at the Spirit Horse Ranch, on Tuesday, July 9 ...