by rob_onlion | Jan 29, 2022 | Media
A lightly raced, once-pricey juvenile trained by Bob Baffert won the GIII Palos Verdes S: the $300,000 OBS April 2-year-old Essential Wager (Honor Code) who was making his stakes debut after riding a two-race win streak. “This horse is getting better and better,...
by rob_onlion | Jan 29, 2022 | Media
Unbeaten Newgrange (Violence) found his best stride late to justify 3-2 favoritism in Oaklawn’s $750,000 GIII Southwest S. “We saw he had a different dimension today, the way the race set up,” said trainer Bob Baffert, who tied Bob Holthus’s record five...
by rob_onlion | Jan 9, 2022 | Media
Drefong has been crowned Japan’s champion freshman sire of 2021, which includes statistics from regional racing conducted by the National Association of Racing. Drefong won six of nine starts, including the Ketel One Kings Bishop Stakes (G1) and TwinSpires...
by rob_onlion | Jan 1, 2022 | Media
Already with a record seven GIII Sham S. trophies, including the two prior runnings and three of the last four, trainer Bob Baffert and the ever-present ownership group nicknamed The Avengers celebrated another big score Saturday at Santa Anita with front-running...
by rob_onlion | Jan 1, 2022 | Media
His 3-year-olds may not be eligible to run in the Kentucky Derby, but trainer Bob Baffert surely has an abundance of horses with the potential to be Triple Crown contenders in any other year. He added the winner and runner-up in another Road to the Kentucky Derby...
