Bob Baffert is again the center of attention at the Preakness, even without the Derby winner
Associated PressBALTIMORE — Bob Baffert does not need to bring the Kentucky Derby winner to the Preakness to become the center of attention at Pimlico Race Course. The two-time Triple Crown-winning Hall of Fame trainer is a magnet for attention as the sport’s most-known figure, and he has more Preakness victories than anyone else in the race’s nearly 150-year history. Any of the all the Triple Crown races, the classics, are very exciting.” D. Wayne Lukas, the 88-year-old elder statesman of horse racing and a longtime friend of Baffert’s, raved about the camaraderie at the Preakness stakes barn, pointed down the row and joked, “Baffert will be down here and he’ll come sit here and ask me how to train a horse.” After holding court with reporters for nearly 20 minutes, Baffert was in his familiar plastic chair right next to Lukas, a combined 14 Preakness victories between them. He’s a horse I think that, off his last work, I was very encouraged by the way he’s starting to realize it’s OK to win, to go ahead and take off.” SONNY ARRIVES When Preakness officials called to invite Kenny McPeek after Mystik Dan won the Derby, his first question was whether he could bring his yellow lab, Sonny.
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