Bob Baffert

Bob Baffert was born January 13, 1953 and is a Triple Crown winning American trainer, whose horses have won four Kentucky Derbies, six Preakness Stakes, two Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks.

Between 1997 and 1999 he won the Eclipse Award as outstanding trainer three years running and was voted the 1997 Big Sport of Turfdom Award.

In addition to his Triple Crown race winners, Baffert has trained horses that won ten American Classic Races, ten Breeders' Cup races, and two Dubai World Cups. In 2010 Baffert scored a first when Misremembered, a horse he bred, owned by his wife Jill and their friend George Jacobs, won the Santa Anita Handicap, marking Baffert's first Grade I win as a breeder. He also has seven wins in the Santa Anita Derby, seven in the Haskell Invitational Handicap, and 12 wins in the Del Mar Futurity, a race he won seven straight times from 1996 to 2002, when run as a Grade II event. He also won the race in 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2014 when run as a Grade I event. He has won the Kentucky Oaks twice: first in 1999 with Silverbulletday, who was later selected for the Hall of Fame, and again with Plum Pretty in 2011.

Bob Baffert was inducted into Lone Star Park's Hall of Fame in 2007, and in 2009, he was nominated and inducted to the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame. Baffert was elected alongside one of the best fillies he trained, Silverbulletday. Point Given was nominated in 2009, but elected and inducted in 2010.