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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 ...
Wood Memorial winner Rodriguez, one of the early Kentucky Derby betting favorites, has been ruled out of Saturday’s race due ...
As Bob Baffert makes his return to the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, here's a look at why he was suspended from Churchill Downs the last three years: ...
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.
With his ban from Churchill Downs-owned tracks behind him, horse racing's most famous trainer, Bob Baffert, knows this week ...
(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 ...
This Saturday, May 3, marks the 151st edition of the Kentucky Derby, and while Journalism, who enters the event on a four-race win streak, is expected to be the favorite, many eyes will be on Hall of ...
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 ...
Bob Baffert looked to have had a slight advantage against other trainers heading to Churchill Downs, with two horses running ...
Until a failed drug test ultimately disqualified the colt — just the second in Derby history to be DQ’d for that reason — and ...
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 ...