Even though Bob Baffert the trainer of the Kentucky Derby champion, Medina Spirit is staying away from Pimlico Race Course, he remains the focus of the Preakness.One of Baffert s biggest rivals, D. Wayne Lukas, is rallying around the trainer as Medina Spirit continues to workout at Pimlico ahead of Saturday s big race.The Maryland Jockey Club on Tuesday announced it will allow Baffert s horses to run in the Preakness, even as he remains suspended by Churchill Downs following a failed drug test for Medina Spirit.But friends of Baffert remain loyal, even long-time rivals. Lukas has laid claim to the same corner of the Pimlico Stakes Barn ever since he arrived in 1980 with Codex, the first of his six Preakness winners.Lukas is the only current trainer that can understand what it s like to be the face of racing and to understand the magnitude of the moment for his friend and rival. I ve never seen him quite this distraught, Lukas said. He s innocent. He needs to just pick it u