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Well-known and prolific trainer Bob Baffert did it again during the Winter Meet, winning the Starlet for the fifth consecutive time.

Corniche makes all in Breeders' Cup Juvenile at the Kentucky Derby. The 2021 Kentucky Derby is the 147th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.

Heller’s latest is biography of owner/breeder Fred Hooper | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — There’s a Grade III race with a $150,000 purse in January at Gulfstream Park that carries the name of Fred W. Hooper. His stamp on Thoroughbred racing endures much more deeply than that, though, despite the fact that he died over 20 years ago, at the age of 102. If you root around in the respective pedigrees of the last two Triple Crown winners, American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018), you’ll find names like Olympia, Tri Jet, Zetta Jet, Crozier and Hoop Jr. These were a...

Next Article It’s a problem any trainer would love to have: So how will Brad Cox handle it? Share Groom Darwin Aguilar tends Mandaloun after breezing on Saturday morning (July 10) as he prepares for next Saturday’s TVG.com Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park. Photo: Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO The Triple Crown has been run, the key second phase of big 3-year-old races gets under way at the weekend, and it looks as though it’s going to take something dramatic and unforeseen to stop the Eclipse Award in that category heading off to Brad Cox’s barn. We’ll know a lot more after Saturday’...

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas says Bob Baffert is 'innocent' after failed drug test for Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit. D. Wayne Lukas, who is looking for his record-tying seventh Preakness Stakes victory on Saturday, came to the defense of his friend Bob Baffert, whose latest Kentucky Derby win is shrouded in controversy. Lukas opened up to Fox News Channel’s Janice Dean on "Fox & Friends" on Friday about his friendship with Baffert. The legendary trainer has come under fire after Medina Sprit tested positive for an increased level of betamethasone after winning the Kentucky Derby. "I admire...