Bob Baffert’s Life Is Good gallops to win in San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita
3 years, 10 months ago

Bob Baffert’s Life Is Good gallops to win in San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita

LA Times  

It seems the biggest problem trainer Bob Baffert had during the running of the $300,000 San Felipe Stakes on Saturday was keeping his face covering over his nose. Sports Trainer Doug O’Neill suspended, fined for drug violation Two-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Doug O’Neill was suspended for a minimum of 10 days and fined $7,500 for a medication violation at Santa Anita. × Life Is Good wins the San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. I’m going to have to get him some cutouts or something.” Life Is Good, a $525,000 purchase, was sired by Into Mischief, the same sire as Authentic, last year’s Kentucky Derby winner.

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Barnes wins San Vicente Stakes as trainer Bob Baffert goes 1-2 in Kentucky Derby prep at Santa Anita
5 days, 19 hours ago

Barnes wins San Vicente Stakes as trainer Bob Baffert goes 1-2 in Kentucky Derby prep at Santa Anita

Associated Press  

ARCADIA, Calif. — Barnes defeated stablemate Romanesque by 5 1/2 lengths to win the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert in a field of Kentucky Derby hopefuls on Saturday at Santa Anita. “I knew he would run well,” Baffert said. “He had to really stretch to get this horse,” Baffert said. I was really surprised …

Subsanador edges field in dramatic California Crown $1-million race at Santa Anita
3 months, 1 week ago

Subsanador edges field in dramatic California Crown $1-million race at Santa Anita

LA Times  

Wathnan Racing’s Subsanador and jockey Mike Smith, center, hold off two other horses to win the inaugural California Crown Stakes Saturday at Santa Anita in Arcadia. If you are trying to attract new fans to horse racing, you couldn’t script a better ending than Saturday’s $1-million California Crown at Santa Anita. Sports Santa Anita’s California Crown event looks to make …

Stronghold edges Baffert’s favored Imagination to win Santa Anita Derby, earns Kentucky Derby berth
9 months ago

Stronghold edges Baffert’s favored Imagination to win Santa Anita Derby, earns Kentucky Derby berth

Associated Press  

ARCADIA, Calif. — Stronghold defeated favored Imagination in a furious duel to the finish to win the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby by a neck on Saturday and earn a spot in next month’s Kentucky Derby. We were head-and-head and he was too strong for me down the lane.” E J Won the Cup, trained by two-time Kentucky Derby winner Doug …

Bob Baffert among the top winners again on Santa Anita opening day
1 year ago

Bob Baffert among the top winners again on Santa Anita opening day

LA Times  

Is there a record at Santa Anita for 3-year-old colts running on the dirt that trainer Bob Baffert doesn’t hold? Maybe, but winning the Grade 1 $300,000 Malibu Stakes isn’t one of them as he won the seven-furlong race for a record-tying sixth time on Tuesday’s opening day when Speed Boat Beach rolled to an easy 1 1/2-length win over …

Bob Baffert’s return to Belmont Stakes highlights exciting close to Triple Crown series
1 year, 7 months ago

Bob Baffert’s return to Belmont Stakes highlights exciting close to Triple Crown series

LA Times  

Trainer Bob Baffert observes the stables at Belmont Park as workouts continue Friday ahead of the Belmont Stakes. The sky over Belmont Park had cleared, gone was the orange haze from Canadian wildfires that forced state officials to suspend racing and training two days before the final leg of the Triple Crown. It’s cloudy and gloomy there.” Friday was Baffert’s …

Bob Baffert is back holding court as he returns to Triple Crown series at Preakness
1 year, 7 months ago

Bob Baffert is back holding court as he returns to Triple Crown series at Preakness

LA Times  

Bob Baffert was back in his element, standing outside the stakes barn, talking with friends, talking to owners, talking to reporters. I think we’re going to find out.” Baffert has won this race seven times, and a victory would break a tie with Robert Wyndham Walden for most Preakness wins by a trainer. The best horse usually wins this race.” …

Practical Move heads to Kentucky Derby after winning by a nose in Santa Anita Derby
1 year, 9 months ago

Practical Move heads to Kentucky Derby after winning by a nose in Santa Anita Derby

LA Times  

Practical Move and jockey Ramon Vazquez, inside, nose out Mandarin Hero and jockey Kazushi Kimura at the finish line Saturday in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby. Practical Move, purchased in part by a New Mexico couple for a mere $230,000, etched his name near the top of the Kentucky Derby favorite’s leaderboard with a thrilling win in the $750,000 Santa …

Defunded is the surprise Bob Baffert winner in the Awesome Again Stakes
2 years, 3 months ago

Defunded is the surprise Bob Baffert winner in the Awesome Again Stakes

LA Times  

Jockey Edwin Maldonado shakes trainer Bob Baffert’s hand after riding Defunded to victory in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. Defunded, who had never won a graded stakes race, took the lead early and wouldn’t give it up over the 1-1/8-mile race to win by 1¾ lengths and get an all-expenses-paid entry into the Breeders’ …

Bob Baffert returns to Santa Anita Park after suspension expires
2 years, 6 months ago

Bob Baffert returns to Santa Anita Park after suspension expires

LA Times  

Trainer Bob Baffert woke up at 5 a.m. Sunday, much earlier than he has been getting up the last 90 days. “I thought about getting there at 12:01 a.m. and go to the barn and start hammering the signs back up,” he said with a laugh while sitting in box 227 in the Santa Anita grandstand watching his horses train …

Second-time starter Taiba pulls off shocker with Santa Anita Derby win
2 years, 9 months ago

Second-time starter Taiba pulls off shocker with Santa Anita Derby win

LA Times  

Taiba and jockey Mike Smith qualified for the Kentucky Derby by wining the Grade I $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on Saturday. So that was a strong horse to collar in your second start at a mile-and-an-eighth with only a race under your belt.” Taiba and jockey Mike Smith, outside, overpower Messier and jockey John Velazquez to win the Santa Anita …

Baffert wins at Santa Anita before 90-day suspension begins
2 years, 9 months ago

Baffert wins at Santa Anita before 90-day suspension begins

Associated Press  

ARCADIA, Calif. — Bob Baffert won the sixth race at Santa Anita on Saturday, sending the Hall of Fame trainer out a winner two days before his 90-day suspension begins. But on Friday, the Kentucky Court of Appeals rejected Baffert’s motion for emergency relief from his 90-day suspension by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. Signage outside Baffert’s barn at Santa …

The last stand of Bob Baffert, horse racing’s most successful and embattled trainer
3 years, 3 months ago

The last stand of Bob Baffert, horse racing’s most successful and embattled trainer

LA Times  

In his claustrophobic and cluttered office at Santa Anita Barn 5, Bob Baffert, the hall of fame trainer, was pushing papers and moving stacks, hunting for a faded photo of his 17-year-old self aboard a long-forgotten quarter horse from a small racing circuit in Arizona. He paused, then added: “I’ve learned who my friends are.” :: Trainer Bob Baffert pets …

Medina Spirit gives Baffert record 7th Kentucky Derby win
3 years, 8 months ago

Medina Spirit gives Baffert record 7th Kentucky Derby win

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Medina Spirit fought off three …

Unheralded Idol pulls off the upset in the Big ‘Cap at Santa Anita
3 years, 10 months ago

Unheralded Idol pulls off the upset in the Big ‘Cap at Santa Anita

LA Times  

Trainer Richard Baltas, who is stretching the front leg of horse Two Thirty Five, got his first Grade 1 stakes victory on Saturday at Santa Anita with Idol. Idol is now the only horse eligible for a $1-million bonus if he also wins the Hollywood Gold Cup at Santa Anita on May 31 and the Pacific Classic at Del Mar …

After highs and lows in 2020, Bob Baffert sets his focus on Santa Anita
4 years ago

After highs and lows in 2020, Bob Baffert sets his focus on Santa Anita

LA Times  

Thoroughbred trainer Bob Baffert, right, speaks with Authentic jockey John Velazquez after the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Oct. 3. “Opening day means starting a whole new year,” said Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. Sports New Santa Anita GM Nate Newby sees a bright future ahead despite challenges Q&A with Santa Anita’s Nate Newby, who …

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