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Bob Baffert Biography

Bob Baffert is one of the most popular and richest Equestrian who was born on January 13, 1953 in Nogales, Arizona, United States. Decorated racehorse trainer , who’s been a winner of several Kentucky Derbies, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. The horse he trained, American Pharaoh took home this year’s Triple Crown.

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Baffert grew up on a ranch in Nogales, Arizona, where his family raised cattle and chickens. When he was 10, his father purchased some Quarter Horses and he practiced racing them on a dirt track. In his teens, he worked as a jockey for $100 a day in informal Quarter Horse races on the outskirts of Nogales. He moved from there to racing at legalized tracks, scoring his first victory at age 17 in 1970.

Baffert graduated from the University of Arizona’s Race Track Industry Program with a Bachelor of Science degree, got married, and began training quarter horses at a Prescott, Arizona farm. By age 20, he had developed a reputation as a trainer and was hired by other trainers to run their stables. In the 1980s, Baffert moved to California and worked at Los Alamitos Race Course, where he switched to training Thoroughbreds. He got his first big break in 1992 when he won his first Breeder’s Cup race with Thirty Slews. He became the leading money-winning trainer in the United States four times.

He was married to with his third wife Jill Baffert, in 2002. He is the father of five children.

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Between 1997 and 1999 he won the Eclipse Award as outstanding trainer three years running and was voted the 1997 Big Sport of Turfdom Award.

Bob Baffert Net Worth

Bob Baffert is one of the richest Equestrian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bob Baffert's net worth $30 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a child of racing Quarter Horses on his family’s ranch in Nogales, Arizona. He became jockey during his teens. He had his first win at the age of 17 in the year 1970.

In the 1980s , he began training Thoroughbreds. He had his first major break in 1992, when he took home the first Breeder’s Cup race with Thirty Slews.

Robert A. Baffert (born January 13, 1953) is an American racehorse trainer who trained the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify. Baffert’s horses have won five Kentucky Derbies, seven Preakness Stakes, three Belmont Stakes and three Kentucky Oaks.

Baffert did not win another classic race until 2001, when he swept the Preakness and Belmont Stakes with eventual Hall of Fame member Point Given. Although he was denied a Derby win that year, he finished third in the race with Congaree. Baffert won the Derby a third time the following year with War Emblem. The colt went on to win the Preakness Stakes, giving the trainer his third shot at winning the Triple Crown. The colt lost the Belmont Stakes after breaking poorly from the starting gate. Baffert did not have a horse hit the board again in any of the Triple Crown races until 2009, when he trained Pioneerof The Nile to a second-place finish in the Derby.

Baffert has five children: four from his first marriage to wife Sherry: Taylor, Canyon, Forest, and Savannah. He married his second wife, Jill, a former television reporter based in Louisville, in 2002. They had a son in 2004 they named “Bode” (/ˈ b oʊ d i / BOH -dee), after skier Bode Miller. Baffert and his family reside in California.

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Baffert’s history in the American classic races began in 1996 when he trained a three-year-old colt named Cavonnier, who ran second in the Kentucky Derby. In 1997, he trained the gray colt Silver Charm to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, finishing second in the Belmont. Baffert revisited the Derby the next year, sending two top colts, Real Quiet and Indian Charlie, to Louisville. Real Quiet won the race that year, but Baffert also finished third with Indian Charlie. Real Quiet won the Preakness as well, but, like Silver Charm, the horse was denied a Triple Crown win and finished second in the Belmont Stakes by a nose. Baffert, however, became the first trainer in history to win the Derby and Preakness in back-to-back years.

Baffert has trained horses that won thirteen American Classic Races, fourteen Breeders’ Cup races, three Dubai World Cups and the inaugural Pegasus World Cup. In 2010 Baffert scored a first when Misremembered, a horse he bred, owned by his wife Jill and their friend George Jacobs, won the Santa Anita Handicap, marking Baffert’s first Grade I win as a breeder. He also has seven wins in the Santa Anita Derby, eight in the Haskell Invitational Handicap, and thirteen wins in the Del Mar Futurity, a race he won seven straight times from 1996 to 2002, when run as a Grade II event. He also won the race in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2016 when run as a Grade I event. He has won the Kentucky Oaks three times: first in 1999 with Silverbulletday, who was later selected for the Hall of Fame, then with Plum Pretty in 2011 and lastly with Abel Tasman in 2017.

Who is Bob Baffert Dating?

According to our records, Bob Baffert married to Jill Baffert. As of December 1, 2023, Bob Baffert’s is not dating anyone.

Baffert was inducted into Lone Star Park’s Hall of Fame in 2007, and in 2009, he was nominated and inducted to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame. Baffert was elected alongside one of the best fillies he trained, Silverbulletday. Point Given was nominated in 2009, but elected and inducted in 2010.

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Finally, after waiting eight years, Baffert trained Lookin At Lucky, co-owned by longtime client and good friend Mike Pegram, to win the Preakness Stakes in 2010. The colt skipped the Belmont Stakes but became the champion three-year-old colt that year. In 2012, Baffert saddled Bodemeister, named for the trainer’s youngest son, Bode, to second-place finishes in the Derby and Preakness. He saddled Paynter in the Belmont Stakes later that year, but that colt, like his stablemate Bodemeister, finished second.

How many wives has Bob Baffert?

Baffert has been married twice and has five children: four with his first wife, Sherry: Taylor, Canyon, Forest, and Savannah. He married his second wife, Jill, a former television reporter based in Louisville, in 2002. They had a son in 2004 whom they named “Bode” (/ˈboʊdi/ BOH-dee), after skier Bode Miller.

Does Bob Baffert own a horse?

However, when the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby takes place on Saturday, Baffert won’t have a single horse attempting to win the first leg of the Triple Crown. Medina Spirit, which was owned by Baffert, won the 2021 Kentucky Derby, but tested positive for a banned substance, betamethasone, following the race.

How much does Bob Baffert earn?

What is up with Bob Baffert?

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, who is banned from the Kentucky Derby, is on a mission to restore two legacies — his own and that of Medina Spirit, who was stripped of the 2021 victory after testing positive for an anti-inflammatory medication following the race.

What age is Bob Baffert?

69 years (January 13, 1953)

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