Authentic, Improbable named HOY Finalists
Authentic and Improbable, both trained by Bob Baffert, were named 2020 Horse of the Year Eclipse Award finalists when the nominees were announced Saturday...
Qahira starts off 2021 with first stakes victory
Qahira got her first stakes win on Jan. 10 when the Bob Baffert trainee won the $75,000 Kalookan Queen S. at Santa Anita Park...
Kalypso wins Santa Ynez S. (G2) in style
Kalypso topped a terrific weekend for the Bob Baffert stable with a sharp score in Sunday's $200,000 Santa Ynez S. (G2)...
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Life Is Good holds off Medina Spirit in Sham S. (G3)
Life Is Good led a Bob Baffert exacta with a victory in Saturday's $100,000 Sham S. (G3) at Santa Anita Park, defeating stablemate Medina Spirit by three-quarters of a length...
Charlatan returns to dominate Malibu S. (G1)
Charlatan won Saturday's $300,000 Malibu S. (G1) at Santa Anita Park in convincing style, coming back from a seven-month layoff to score by 4 1/2-lengths...
Spielberg gives Baffert record 13th Futurity (G2) win
Spielberg provided plenty of drama but prevailed over The Great One to win Saturday's $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) by a nose...
Varda gives Baffert his 7th Starlet S. (G1) winner
Varda rallied from last at the top of the stretch to win Saturday's $300,000 Starlet S. (G1) at Los Alamitos Racetrack by 1 1/2-lengths, the first graded stakes win for the 2-year-old filly...
Authentic gets historic BC Classic (G1) win
Authentic's 2 1/4-length victory over Improbable gave Bob Baffert a 1-2 finish in Saturday's $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Keeneland...
Gamine sets track record in Breeders' Cup
Gamine capped a stellar 3-year-old season with a track-record setting performance in Saturday's $1 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) at Keeneland...
Merneith kicks off Baffert's perfect Breeders' Cup Saturday
Merneith ran down a stubborn Motivated Seller in the final strides to win the $125,000 Fort Springs S. Saturday at Keeneland...
Classic trio leads Baffert Breeders' Cup armada
Bob Baffert's six Breeders' Cup entrants are a blend of 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, and some of the top older horses in training...
Authentic and Thousand Words a formidable Preakness (G1) duo
Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Authentic and star-crossed stablemate Thousand Words drew posts nine and five, respectively, for Saturday's $1 million Preakness S. (G1)...
Improbable, Maximum Security 1-2 in Awesome Again S. (G1)
Improbable gave his trainer Bob Baffert a record sixth win in the $300,000 Awesome Again S. (G1) on Saturday...
Princess Noor romps again in Chandelier S. (G1)
Princess Noor turned in another spectacular performance in Saturday's $200,000 Chandelier S. (G1)...
Princess Noor dominates Del Mar Debutante (G1)
Princess Noor's win in the Sept. 6 Del Mar Debutante (G1) continued an incredible weekend for Bob Baffert that also saw him win his sixth Kentucky Derby (G1)...
Authentic gives Baffert historic sixth Kentucky Derby (G1)
In an extremely game effort, Authentic held off Tiz the Law by 1 1/4-lengths to win the Kentucky Derby (G1) Saturday at Churchill Downs...
Gamine tagged as even-money favorite for 2020 Kentucky Oaks (G1)
Bob Baffert's brilliant 3-year-old filly Gamine was made the morning line favorite for the 2020 Kentucky Oaks (G1) after the field of nine 3-year-old fillies was drawn Monday...
"Max" displays his greatness in Pacific Classic (G1)
Maximum Security was at his best once again in Saturday's $500,000 Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar...
Gamine powers to victory in Grade 1 Test S.
Bob Baffert's brilliant 3-year-old filly Gamine turned in another spectacular performance in...
Fighting Mad goes all the way in Clement Hirsch (G1)
Fighting Mad's victory in Sunday's Clement L. Hirsch (G1) capped a huge weekend for the Baffert stable...
Improbable gives Baffert second straight Whitney (G1)
Improbable moved to the top of the older male division with his two-length victory in Saturday's $750,000 Whitney S. (G1) at Saratoga, his second Grade 1 win in a row...
Thousand Words earns a Kentucky Derby trip
Thousands Words defeated Honor A.P. by a half-length in Saturday's $100,000 Shared Belief S. at Del Mar...
Maximum Security up in time in San Diego H. (G2)
Maximum Security, making his debut for the Bob Baffert barn, battled to a nose victory over Midcourt in the $150,000 San Diego H. (G2) Saturday at Del Mar...
Authentic gives Baffert ninth Haskell S. (G1) win
Authentic held off a furious late charge by NY Traffic to win Saturday's $1 million Haskell S. (G1) by a nose, earning the 3-year-old colt another 100 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby...
Uncle Chuck rolls to victory in Los Al Derby (G3)
Bob Baffert has another strong Kentucky Derby (G1) contender in Uncle Chuck after the 3-year-old colt powered to a four-length victory in the $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby (G3)...
Gamine spectacular in historic Acorn S. (G1)
Gamine's brilliant 18 3/4-length victory in Saturday's $300,000 Acorn S. (G1) lowered the stakes record by more than a second in what was the 3-year-old filly's first stakes start...
Gingham stylish in Angels Flight S. win
Gingham got a very patient ride from Mike Smith, running down Been Studying Her late to take the Angels Flight S...
McKinzie cruises in Triple Bend S. (G2)
McKinzie returned to the races with a stirring victory in Sunday's $200,000 Triple Bend S. (G2) at Santa Anita Park...
Improbable rolls in Hollywood Gold Cup (G1)
Improbable moved to the top of the handicap division with an impressive display in Saturday's $300,000 Hollywood Gold Cup (G1) at Santa Anita Park...
Front-running Fighting Mad takes Santa Maria S. (G2)
Fighting Mad stretch out to 1 1/16-miles for the first time in Sunday's Santa Maria S. (G2) at Santa Anita Park and came away with a 3 1/2-length victory...
Nadal completes Arkansas Derby (G1) sweep
Nadal's three-length win in the second division of Saturday's Arkansas Derby (G1) came a little over an hour after Charlatan captured the first division...
Charlatan shines bright in Arkansas Derby (G1)
Charlatan's superlative six-length victory in Saturday's $500,000 Arkansas Derby (G1) was just one highlight on super day of racing for his trainer Bob Baffert...
Nadal very gritty in $1M Rebel S. (G2)
Nadal solidified himself as a top Kentucky Derby (G1) contender on Saturday with a front-running victory in the $1 million Rebel S. (G2)...
Charlatan spectacular in first two-turn effort
Bob Baffert's dynamic 3-year-old colt Charlatan turned in another stunning performance Saturday at Santa Anita Park...
Undefeated Authentic rolls in San Felipe S. (G2)
Authentic continued his march towards Louisville and the Kentucky Derby with an authoritative victory in Saturday's $400,000 San Felipe S. (G2)...
Azul Coast ships north to take El Camino Real Derby
Azul Coast made the journey to Golden Gate Fields from his southern California base to take the $100,000 El Camino Real Derby on Saturday afternoon...
Nadal on Derby trail after San Vicente S.(G2) win
Nadal's gritty win in the Feb. 9 San Vicente S. (G2) has earned the 3-year-old colt a chance to compete on Kentucky Derby (G1) trail...
Baffert hits milestone with Robert B. Lewis (G3) win
Bob Baffert got career win number 3,000 with the aptly-named Thousand Words in Saturday's $100,000 Robert B. Lewis S. (G3) at Santa Anita Park...
Mucho Gusto gives Baffert second Pegasus World Cup (G1)
Mucho Gusto's powerful victory in Saturday's $3 million Pegasus World Cup S. (G1) gave Bob Baffert his second victory in the first four runnings of the race...
Mother Mother all class in Kalookan Queen S.
Mother Mother kicked off her 2020 campaign with a victory in Sunday's Kalookan Queen S. at Santa Anita Park...
Bast tops Baffert trifecta in Santa Ynez S. (G2)
The Bob Baffert barn swept the top three spots in Sunday's $200,000 Santa Ynez S. (G2) at Santa Anita Park, with Bast prevailing by 1 3/4-lengths...
Authentic rolls in Sham S. (G3)
Authentic kicked off his road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) with a 7 3/4-length score in the $100,000 Sham S. (G3) at Santa Anita, with his stablemate Azul Coast finishing second...
Bast holds off Donna Veloce in Grade 1 Starlet
Bast and Donna Veloce were 1-2 the entire way in the $300,000 Starlet (G1) Saturday at Los Alamitos, with Bast getting the best of her foe by a half-length...
Thousand Words digs deep to win Los Alamitos Futurity (G2)
Thousand Words was headed in deep stretch by Anneau d'Or, but fought back gallantly to best his foe by a neck in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2)...
Undefeated High Velocity takes Bob Hope S. (G3)
High Velocity's win in Saturday's $100,000 Bob Hope S. (G3) at Del Mar gave Bob Baffert his sixth winner in the past nine runnings of the seven-furlong race for 2-year-olds...
McKinzie highlights Baffert's strong Breeders' Cup hand
Bob Baffert's quartet of contenders in this year's Nov. 1-2 Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita Park will contest four different races...
Eight Rings comes up big in American Pharoah S. (G1)
Eight Rings capped a Grade 1 double for Bob Baffert on Friday at Santa Anita with his commanding six-length win in the $300,000 American Pharoah S. (G1)...
Bast bests Comical in G1 Chandelier S.
Bob Baffert won the $300,000 Chandelier S. (G1) at Santa Anita Park for a record 11th time on Friday when the dynamic filly Bast out-dueled Comical to win by a neck...
Quality Response coasts in Phone Chatter S.
Quality Response, a dominating debut winner in a Sept. 1 Del Mar maiden special weight, backed up that performance with another emphatic score in the Sept. 19 Phone Chatter S...
Flor de La Mar impresses in Beverly Lewis S.
Bob Baffert gave Flor de La Mar a cut back in distance in Saturday's $75,000 Beverly Lewis S. and the 3-year-old Tiznow filly responded with a handy come-from-behind victory...
Bast breaks maiden in Del Mar Debutante (G1)
Bob Baffert got his eighth victory in the Del Mar Debutante (G1) on Saturday when Bast rolled by nearly nine lengths...
Improbable returns to take Del Mar's Shared Belief S.
Last December's Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) winner Improbable returned to the winner's circle for the first time since then on Sunday with a classy victory in the $100,000 Shared Belief S...
Fighting Mad much the best in Torrey Pines (G3)
Fighting Mad toyed with her competition early in the one-mile Torrey Pines S. (G3) before drawing away...
Kingly wears the crown in Grade 3 La Jolla S.
Kingly topped off a terrific weekend for the Bob Baffert barn with a heart-pounding neck victory in the $150,000 La Jolla S. (G3)...
McKinzie gives Baffert his first Whitney S. (G1) win
McKinzie's victory in Saturday's $1 million Whitney S. (G1) earned the 4-year-old colt an automatic berth in the Breeder's Cup Classic (G1) and gave his trainer his first victory in the historic race...
Game Winner does it easy in Los Alamitos Derby (G3)
Game Winner had no trouble finding the winner's circle for Saturday's $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby...
Marley's Freedom scores repeat in Great Lady M. (G2)
Marley's Freedom added a second win in the $200,000 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos on Saturday, giving the 5-year-old a total of six graded stakes wins...
Mucho Gusto too good in Grade 3 Affirmed S.
Mucho Gusto won his fourth career graded stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita Park with a comfortable 2 1/4-length score over stablemate Roadster in the $100,000 Affirmed S. (G3)...
Mucho Gusto an easy winner of Laz Barrera (G3)
Mucho Gusto cruised to a 3 1/4-length win in the $100,000 Laz Barrera S. (G3) at Santa Anita Park on Saturday afternoon...
Improbable morning line favorite for Preakness 144
Saturday's 144th running of the Preakness S. (G1) drew a field of 13 3-year-olds vying for the second jewel of the Triple Crown...
McKinzie romps in Grade 2 Alysheba S.
McKinzie's sparkling performance in the $400,000 Alysheba S. (G2) missed the track and stakes record by just .06 seconds...
Baffert seeks history with trio of colts in Derby 145
After winning his fifth Kentucky Derby (G1) with Justify last year, trainer Bob Baffert could tie Ben Jones for the most wins for any trainer...
Kingly rules in California Derby
Clearview Stables, RAC 04 Racing and Michael Meegan's Kingly held off a stiff challenge by Visitant to win the $100,000 California Derby...
Roadster tops Santa Anita Derby (G1) exacta for Baffert barn
Roadster ran down Game Winner in deep stretch in Saturday's $1 million Santa Anita Derby (G1) to give the Bob Baffert stablemates a 1-2 finish in the key west coast Kentucky Derby (G1) prep...
Chasing Yesterday shows class in Sunland Oaks (G3)
Chasing Yesterday, a Grade 1 winner last year, kicked off her 2019 campaign on March 24 with a 1 1/4-length victory in the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks (G3)...
Marley's Freedom gallops in G2 Santa Monica S.
Marley's Freedom 5-year-old debut in the $200,000 Santa Monica S. (G2) Feb. 16 at Santa Anita Park couldn't have been more impressive, winning by nearly two lengths over Selcourt...
Mucho Gusto draws off in Robert Lewis S. (G3)
Mucho Gusto set off the pace before taking the lead with a quarter-mile to run and drew off in the stretch to win the $150,000 Robert B. Lewis (G3) by nearly five lengths...
Justify crowned Horse of the Year & 3YO Champ
Justify's historic Triple Crown and undefeated season in 2018 earned the colt both Horse of the Year and champion Male 3-year-old honors at Thursday evening's Eclipse Awards...
Game Winner collects 2YO Male Eclipse Award
Bob Baffert's undefeated 2-year-old colt Game Winner was named the Champion 2-year-old Male at Thursday night's Eclipse Award Ceremony...
McKinzie outclasses Malibu S. (G1) field
McKinzie's incredible burst in the final furlong carried the 3-year-old colt to a 4 3/4-length victory in the $300,000 Malibu S. (G1)...
Chasing Yesterday triumphs in Starlet (G1)
Chasing Yesterday's game victory in the $300,000 Starlet S. (G1) at Los Alamitos gave Bob Baffert a sweep of the 2-year-old stakes on the Saturday card...
Improbable rolls in Los Alamitos Futurity (G1)
Improbable's stellar performance in the $300,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) gave Bob Baffert his record 11th winner in the race...
Marley's Freedom prevails in Go For Wand H. (G3)
Marley's Freedom got her fourth graded stakes win of the year in the $250,000 Go For Wand H. (G3) on Dec. 1 at Aqueduct...
Mucho Gusto digs in to win Bob Hope S. (G3)
Bob Baffert chalked up his fifth win in the last eight runnings of the $100,000 Bob Hope S. (G3) Saturday at Del Mar...
Chasing Yesterday class of Desi Arnaz S.
The field may have been small, but Chasing Yesterday proved she was the best of the three competitors in Monday's Desi Arnaz S...
Game Winner lives up to his name in BC Juvenile (G1)
Game Winner overcame getting squeezed at the start, a wide trip on both turns, and getting bumped in mid-stretch to win the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1)...
Improbable kicks off BC weekend for Baffert
Bob Baffert could have a future star in the 2-year-old colt Improbable, who is 2-for-2 following his 7 1/4-length romp in Friday's $100,000 Street Sense S...
Classic duo highlights Baffert BC contingent
Entries for the 35th Breeders' Cup were drawn Monday in Louisville for the Nov. 2-3 event at Churchill Downs...
Mother Mother gets first stakes win in Rags to Riches S.
Del Mar Debutante (G1) runner-up Mother Mother led nearly every step of the way in Sunday's $103,116 Rags to Riches S. to win by 1 ¾ lengths...
Chasing Yesterday annexes Anoakia S.
Chasing Yesterday got her first stakes win on Oct. 14 when the 2-year-old filly wore down It'sjustanillusion to take the Anoakia S. by a half-length...
Vale Dori rebounds in G1 Zenyatta S.
Vale Dori (ARG) broke a frustrating losing streak in a big way on Sunday, taking the $300,000 Zenyatta S. (G1)...
Game Winner too good in American Pharoah S. (G1)
Game Winner stamped himself as a favorite for the upcoming Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) after a dominant performance in the $300,000 American Pharoah S. (G1)...
McKinzie returns to take Pennsylvania Derby (G1)
McKinzie made his comeback in Saturday's $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) a winning one, capturing the 1 1/8-mile affair by nearly two lengths...
Game Winner gives Baffert 14th Del Mar Futurity (G1)
Gary and Mary West's Game Winner rallied strongly in the stretch to pass a tiring Rowayton with a sixteenth to run to win the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity by 1 1/2-lengths...
Undefeated Dream Tree sparkles in Prioress S. (G2)
Dream Tree kept her perfect record intact in Sunday's $250,000 Prioress S. (G2) at Saratoga, drawing off to a 4 1/4-length win...
Marley's Freedom rolls again in Ballerina S. (G1)
Marley's Freedom gave Bob Baffert his second Grade 1 winner in about 30 minutes on Saturday at Saratoga when she scored a 3 1/4-length victory in the $500,000 Ballerina S. (G1)...
Abel Tasman prevails in Personal Ensign S. (G1)
Abel Tasman thrilling win in Saturday's $700,000 Personal Ensign S. (G1) at Saratoga gave Bob Baffert his first win in the historic race...
Once On Whiskey up in time in Los Al Derby (G3)
Once On Whiskey needed every bit of the long Los Alamitos stretch to catch Draft Pick, but did...
Marley's Freedom sweeps to victory in Great Lady M (G2)
Marley's Freedom made a huge move entering the stretch to go from last to first in less than a furlong to win the $200,000 Great Lady M Stakes (G2)...
American Anthem full of heart in San Carlos S. (G2) victory
American Anthem and St. Joe Bay staged a thrilling stretch duel in Saturday's $250,000 San Carlos S. (G2), with American Anthem coming out on top by a head...
Justify makes history with Belmont S. (G1) win
Justify certified his place in racing immortality when he won 150th Belmont S. (G1), defeating Gronkowski by nearly to length to become the 13th winner of the historic Triple Crown.
Hoppertuntity surgers late to win Brookynn Inv. (G2)
Hopperturnity found his best stride in the final furlong to win the $400,000 Brooklyn Inv. (G2) Saturday at Belmont Park...
Spectacular Abel Tasman dominates Ogden Phipps S. (G1)
Abel Tasman earned her fifth career Grade 1 win and topped the $2 million earnings mark in Saturday's $750,000 Ogden Phipps S. (G1) at Belmont Park...
Justify draws post 1 for Belmont S. (G1)
Justify's Triple Crown quest in Saturday's Belmont S. (G1) will begin from the inside post position in the field of 10 3-year-olds...
Marley's Freedom rolls in Desert Stormer S. (G3)
Cicero Farms' Marley's Freedom cruised to a 7 1/4-length win in the $100,000 Desert Stormer S. (G3) on Sunday at Santa Anita Park...
Justify brilliant in Preakness S. (G1) victory
Justify is now on the cusp of history following his half-length victory in Saturday's $1.5 million Preakness S. (G1) at a very foggy and rainy Pimlico racetrack...
Ax Man fells foes in Sir Barton S.
One race before Justify's victory in the Preakness S. (G1), Ax Man unleashed his talent with an eye-catching 6 3/4-length tally in the $100,000 Sir Barton S...
Justify draws post seven for Saturday's Preakness (G1)
Like he did in the Kentucky Derby (G1), Justify drew post seven in the $1.5 million Preakness S. (G1) as he attempts to capture the second leg of the Triple Crown...
Justify joins the greats with Kentucky Derby (G1) win
Justify put himself and his trainer Bob Baffert in the history books with his 2 ½-length win in the 144th Kentucky Derby (G1) at Churchill Downs...
Kentucky Derby (G1) draw goes well for team Baffert
Tuesday's Kentucky Derby (G1) post position draw always has its tense moments, but Bob Baffert was very happy with the outcome for his two colts Justify and Solomini...
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