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About Bob Baffert
Bob with wife Jill and son Bode in late 2007.
Bob Baffert is widely recognized as one of the most successful trainers in the history of horse racing.
After rising to the top in the Quarter Horse game, Bob decided to become a full time Thoroughbred trainer. And it certainly did not take him long to also reach the pinnacle of his profession in Thoroughbred racing.
Through the years, Bob Baffert has registered numerous major stakes victories, earned a multitude of awards and received accolades galore, all stemming from his drive to succeed and his knack of being able to elicit the very best that an equine athlete has to give. In 2009, that all culminated when he was inducted into Thoroughbred racing’s national Hall of Fame at Saratoga.
Probably nothing speaks louder about Bob Baffert the trainer and Bob Baffert the person than the fact that Mike Pegram and Hal Earnhardt have been in racing with him for such a long time. Those two owners have had a long run with Bob, with their association going all the way back to Bob’s Quarter Horse days. Indeed, Mike Pegram and Hal Earnhardt were responsible for bringing Bob into the Thoroughbred game.
"Bob Baffert has an uncannily sharp eye for horseflesh. Nobody has more manifest gifts as a horse whisperer than Baffert"
Multiple Eclipse Award-winning writer William Nack from GQ magazine
The 2007 Breeders’ Cup was especially meaningful for Bob Baffert in that he was able to win a Breeders’ Cup race for Hal Earnhardt and another Breeders’ Cup race for Mike Pegram.
For Hal Earnhardt and his wife, Patti, the Bob Baffert-trained Indian Blessing posted a 3 1/2-length victory in the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.
For Mike Pegram and partners Karl Watson and Paul Weitman, the Bob Baffert-trained Midnight Lute won the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Sprint by an emphatic 4 3/4 lengths. Midnight Lute also had the distinction of recording the nation’s highest Beyer Speed Figure of 2007 when he earned a 124 for his victory in the Grade I Forego Stakes. He returned a year later to earn back-to-back wins in the Sprint, winning the 2008 edition before again being named champion and retiring to stud.
Bob Baffert’s zest for life and his pure joy of competing and winning at the sport’s highest level have helped make racing a lot fun for Mike Pegram, Hal Earnhardt and such other owners as Robert and Janice McNair (Stonerside Stable), the late Bob Lewis and his wife, Beverly; the late Prince Ahmed bin Salman (The Thoroughbred Corp.) and the late John Mabee and his wife, Betty (Golden Eagle Farm).
Silver Charm earned $6,944,369 before being retired to stud.
Bob and Beverly Lewis and Bob Baffert struck gold with Silver Charm. An $85,000 purchase, Silver Charm earned $6,944,369 before being retired to stud. Silver Charm’s racing career was highlighted by victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 1997 and the rich Dubai World Cup in 1998.
After coming within three-quarters of a length of sweeping the coveted Triple Crown with Silver Charm in 1997 for the Lewises, Bob Baffert came even closer to Triple Crown glory the following year with Mike Pegram’s Real Quiet. Real Quiet won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness before losing the Belmont Stakes by a scant nose.
Bob Baffert thus became the first person in the history of Thoroughbred racing to train Kentucky Derby and Preakness winners in back-to-back years
Real Quiet was purchased for an even smaller sum than Silver Charm. Real Quiet was bought at auction for just $17,000 and earned $3,271,802 on the track.
Bob Baffert has “an uncannily sharp eye for horseflesh,” multiple Eclipse Award-winning writer William Nack pointed out in a story about Baffert in GQ magazine. Nobody has “more manifest gifts as a horse whisperer” than Baffert, Nack added.
For Bob Baffert to nearly win two Triple Crowns as the trainer of Silver Charm and Real Quiet, who were purchased for $102,000 combined, is regarded by Nack as “one of the most startling training feats of the last half century.”
Nack has written that Bob Baffert is “the most charming, engaging, articulate horseman” he has ever known. Nack covered horse racing for Sports Illustrated for many years and is the author of books on Thoroughbred legends Secretariat and Ruffian.
Captain Steve became another success story for the owner-trainer team of Baffert and Pegram. A $70,000 purchase, Captain Steve won the Dubai World Cup in 2001 and earned $6,828,356 during his racing career.
In 2001, Bob Baffert again won two-thirds of the Triple Crown, this time with Point Given.
Point Given won the Preakness and Belmont in 2001. That year he became the first Thoroughbred in history to win four straight races worth $1 million or more (the Preakness, Belmont, Haskell Invitational Handicap and Travers). Point Given also was victorious in the San Felipe Stakes and Santa Anita Derby as a 3-year-old.
War Emblem likewise won two-thirds of the Triple Crown for Bob Baffert in 2002. The colt joined the Baffert barn after winning the 2002 Illinois Derby. War Emblem then won the Kentucky Derby (as a 20-1 longshot), Preakness and Haskell Invitational Handicap.
In 2010, Baffert notched his record-tying fifth Preakness win with Lookin At Lucky, the champion 2-year-old a year prior who redeemed himself in the second jewel of the Triple Crown after troubled trips cost him as the favorite in both the Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby his two starts prior.
Bob Baffert has been voted the Eclipse Award as the sport’s outstanding trainer three times (1997, 1998 and 1999).
Wins in American Classics:
Silver Charm (1997 Kentucky Derby)
Real Quiet (1998 Kentucky Derby)
War Emblem (2002 Kentucky Derby)
Silver Charm (1997 Preakness S.)
Real Quiet (1998 Preakness S.)
Point Given (2001 Preakness S.)
War Emblem (2002 Preakness S.)
Lookin At Lucky (2010 Preakness S.)
Point Given (2001 Belmont S.)
Wins in Breeders' Cup Races:
Thirty Slews (1992 Sprint)
Midnight Lute (2007 and 2008 Sprint)
Silverbulletday (1998 Juvenile Fillies)
Indian Blessing (2007 Juvenile Fillies)
Vindication (2002 Juvenile)
Midshipman (2008 Juvenile)
Secret Circle (2011 Juvenile Sprint)
Eclipse Award Champions:
Silver Charm (3-year-old male of 1997)
Real Quiet (3-year-old male of 1998)
Silverbulletday (2-year-old filly of 1998; 3-year-old filly of 1999)
Chilukki (2-year-old filly of 1999)
Point Given (Horse of the Year of 2001; 3-year-old male of 2001)
Vindication (2-year-old male of 2002)
War Emblem (3-year-old male of 2002)
Indian Blessing (2-year-old filly of 2007)
Midnight Lute (sprinter of 2007)
Lookin At Lucky (2-year-old male of 2009)
Silver Charm was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007, Silverbulletday followed suit in 2009 along with her conditioner, and Point Given entered the Hall in 2010.
Through the end of 2012, Thoroughbreds trained by Bob Baffert had earned in excess of $184 million to rank fifth among the all-time leaders in that important category.
2012 also saw Baffert's runners top the $15 million mark in annual earnings for the second time in his illustrious career. His winning percentage of 29% and average earnings of $27,969 per start were the best of all trainers in the top 10 in earnings.
Baffert came heartbreakingly close to adding to his Triple Crown race win totals when Bodemeister (romping winner of the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby) ran second in both the Derby and Preakness, then stablemate Paynter would go on to be runner-up in the Belmont Stakes.
Paynter would go on to win the $1 million Haskell Invitational (giving Baffert his third straight and record sixth win overall in the race) and become one racing's biggest stories off the track due to his courageous struggles with potentially deadly maladies of laminitis and colitis. Ultimately overcoming both illnesses, Paynter's story was voted by racing fans as the 2012 National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Moment of the Year. Owned by Zayat Stables, Paynter returned to Baffert's barn early in 2013 to prepare for his return to racing.
Other highlights of 2012 included Baffert getting a record-setting 100th stakes win at Del Mar, the same place where Baffert claimed his first horse, with Fed Biz in the El Cajon S. Baffert would go on to sweep Del Mar's Grade 1 stakes for 2-year-olds later in the meet, with Executiveprivilege in the Debutante and Rolling Fog in the Futurity. Baffert has won the Futurity an amazing 11 times and has seven victories in the Debutante.
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