The Man Who Rigged the Biggest Horse Race in America

A horse finishes a normal morning workout in Florida. Two hours later he's dead. His trainer puts out a statement saying he's heartbroken. What he doesn't know is the FBI has been recording his phone calls for two years, and they know exactly what killed that horse. This is the full story of Jorge Navarro, the trainer they called the Juice Man, and the biggest doping scandal in the history of American horse racing. A secret network of trainers, vets and underground drug labs that rigged over 1,000 races with drugs no test could catch. It goes all the way up to the 2019 Kentucky Derby, where Maximum Security crossed the line first while quietly doped with a substance called SGF-1000, and his trainer's phone calls sat on an FBI wiretap the entire time. Custom drugs cooked in unregistered labs. Invoices disguised as chiropractic bills. 50 injections given to one horse before a single race in Dubai. And a champion named X Y Jet who paid the price for all of it. By the end, 27 people arrested in dawn raids, $26 million in restitution, and a sport that had to be rebuilt by an act of Congress.