Editor s note:
This was published before trainer Bob Baffert was suspended Sunday after his horse, Medina Spirit, failed a post-Kentucky Derby drug test. Here s more on it from ESPN.
Bob Baffert continues to make his native state proud â the Nogales, Ariz.- born and University of Arizona-educated thoroughbred horse trainer now has seven Kentucky Derby victories in his amazing trophy case, including the most recent race.
Baffert, 68, trained Derby winners of 1997, 1998, 2002, 2015, 2018, 2020 and this year.
Heâs a graduate of the UA Race Track Industry Program. He began by training quarter horses at a farm in Prescott.
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Itâs part of the sport of horse racing that trainers get more media attention â perhaps deservedly so â than the jockeys. And both get more publicity, it seems, than the horse.