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Bob Baffert is among the most decorated and recognizable horse trainers in the world. His horses have won the Kentucky Derby a record-tying six times.
The story of Bob Baffert is not a tale of a singular sinner, but instead a parable for a sport struggling to explain its welfare and medication practices to an American public that increasingly ...
In Saturday's running of the Kentucky Derby, Baffert will now have just one horse running in it, as Rodriguez was scratched from now 19-horse field on Thursday. Here's what you need to know on why ...
See below for answers to frequently asked questions about Bob Baffert and the 2025 Kentucky Derby, including what he was suspended for, how many horses he has entered in this year's Derby, and much ...
With his ban from Churchill Downs-owned tracks behind him, horse racing's most famous trainer, Bob Baffert, knows this week ...
Bob Baffert will have to wait at least another year before he can claim a seventh Kentucky Derby and officially crown himself the King of Churchill Downs. In Saturday's 151st running of the ...
One of Bob Baffert's horses was scratched from the Kentucky Derby on Thursday, just days away from his long-awaited return at Churchill Downs.
Dubbed the “Greatest Two Minutes in Sports” – a nod to its approximate run time – the Derby is the first race in US horse racing’s coveted Triple Crown, which also includes the Preakness Stakes and ...
Until a failed drug test ultimately disqualified the colt — just the second in Derby history to be DQ’d for that reason — and ...
Wood Memorial winner Rodriguez, one of the early Kentucky Derby betting favorites, has been ruled out of Saturday’s race due ...
Bob Baffert is back at the Kentucky Derby, and he has two of the race favorites. But can they beat favorite Journalism in ...
(This story has been updated with news that Rodriguez was scratched from the 2025 Kentucky Derby on Thursday). Bob Baffert is back at the Kentucky Derby in 2025 and looking to break the record he ...