No. What makes you think he would have been?
And, for Sandra- There have been countless efforts made over the years to try to get the horse which was disqualified in 1968 restored to his rightful place among the winners of the Kentucky Derby. Especially since the year 2000 and during the decades following that, largely because it is now legal for horses to run while being given bute, as long as it is being used for a legitimate, therapeutic purpose and the trainer has filed the appropriate documentation with the racing stewards. In both 2017 and 2018, ALL of the horses which ran in the KD did so while receiving bute. The only reason that this particular horse was DQ'd was because at the time, bute was a new drug that no one really knew the side effects of. Since then, medical knowledge has advanced enormously, and we now know that it doesn't make horses high or cause them to run faster. But for this one horse to continue to have such a nasty stigma attached to his record is a shame, it really is. The racing world can and should DO BETTER than to continue to allow this.
Steroids, however, are a different matter altogether. They DO have serious side effects, and there are good reasons why these drugs are illegal. A good example of a horse who SHOULD have been disqualified in the KD but wasn't was Big Brown, who raced while being given steroids in 2008. No one knew he'd been given the drugs until after he won both the Derby and Preakness that year, when his trainer made the mistake of mentioning publicly that the horse had been given the drugs. And because that horse was bombed out of his mind on Derby Day, the poor filly Eight Belles ran herself into a premature GRAVE trying to catch up with him. I will never forget that day, because it was the only time in the entire history of the race that a horse died afterwards. Granted, Eight Belles was an accident waiting for a chance to happen in a lot of ways, yes, but I will always wonder what the outcome would have been if Big Brown hadn't been bombed out of his head on drugs that day. His trainer was eventually suspended for a decade because of illegal drugging of his horses in other races. As for Big Brown, well,he ran in the Belmont- without drugs for the first time in his life- and finished DEAD LAST. That result alone makes me question just how much of his two other TC race wins were due to drugs instead of natural ability. The really sad part about it, though, was that it tainted the reputation of not only the Kentucky Derby, but of the entire sport of horse racing. There's no place in this sport for people who cheat, there really isn't. And I will forever fault Big Brown's connections for their behavior. It was wrong, period.