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Bob Baffert

Statistics by Year:
 

Category Starters Starts Starts/Starter 1st 2nd 3rd Win % % 1st, 2nd or 3rd Earned Avg Earnings per Start Avg Earnings Per Starter
Dirt 65 142 2.18 49 38 16 34.51% 72.54% $6,050,180 $42,607 $93,080
Turf 12 23 1.92 3 6 3 13.04% 52.17% $263,020 $11,436 $21,918
All Weather 0 0 0 0 0 0 0% 0% $0 $0 $0
Total 72 165 2.29 52 44 19 31.52% 69.7% $6,313,200 $38,262 $87,683
  
Graded Stakes 29 58 2 15 19 7 25.86% 70.69% $3,968,000 $68,414 $136,828
Black-type Stakes 36 73 2.03 20 21 8 27.4% 67.12% $4,599,165 $63,002 $127,755
Two-year-olds 8 8 1 3 2 2 37.5% 87.5% $163,500 $20,438 $20,438
Claiming 2 4 2 2 0 0 50% 50% $44,200 $11,050 $22,100
First-time starters 23 23 9 4 5 39.13% 78.26% $460,300 $20,013 $20,013
Name: Bob Baffert
Address:
P.O. Box 661912
Arcadia, CA  91066-1912
Fax: (626) 446-2651
Website: http://www.bobbaffert.com
Trainer Bio

 

Bob Baffert, our newest Triple Crown-winning trainer with AMERICAN PHAROAH, is widely recognized as one of the most successful trainers in the history of horse racing.

Bob 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.,[2] 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.[1] 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.

After rising to the top in the Quarter Horse game, Bob decided to become a full time Thoroughbred trainer. And it certainly did not take him long to also reach the pinnacle of his profession in Thoroughbred racing.

Through the years, Bob Baffert has registered numerous major stakes victories, earned a multitude of awards and received accolades galore, all stemming from his drive to succeed and his knack of being able to elicit the very best that an equine athlete has to give. In 2009, that all culminated when he was inducted into Thoroughbred racing’s national Hall of Fame at Saratoga.

Baffert got his fourth Kentucky Derby, sixth Preakness, and second Belmont S. wins (tied for second-most Derby wins by a trainer) in 2015 when the brilliant American Pharoah became racing's 12th Triple Crown winner, breaking a drought that had stretched some 37 years. A Zayat Stables homebred son of Pioneerof the Nile (who Baffert trained to a runner-up finish in the 2009 Derby), American Pharoah flashed his brilliance in 2014 when he broke his maiden in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and followed it up with a victory in the FrontRunner S. (G1). Though a minor injury forced him to miss the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), American Pharoah was nevertheless named 2-year-old Champion Male of 2014.

Please read more Bob’s horses, owners and successes on his website via the link on the left of this page. 

Locations Manager on location Email Phone Day Rate # of horses trained
Santa Anita Park
What's your normal use of veterinary services to manage horses on a day-today basis:
  • Aggressive ($700+ month/horse)
  • Moderate ($300 - $600 month/horse)
  • Occasional (less than $300 month/horse)
Other than day rate, does your billing include charges for:
  • Veterinary
  • Blacksmith
  • Vanning
  • Travel
  • Other
How often do you communicate with Owners:
  • Daily
  • 2-3 times a week
  • Once a week
  • As needed

Top 10 Winning Horses - Past 12 months

Horse Sex Current Earnings Best Win Race Class Best Win Stake
Citizen Bull Colt $1,481,000 Grade 1 winner FanDuel Breeders' Cup Juvenile Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance G1
Gaming Colt $771,000 Grade 1 winner Del Mar Futurity G1
Tenma Filly $618,000 Grade 1 winner FanDuel Racing Del Mar Debutante S. G1
Cavalieri Filly $318,000 Grade 1 winner B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile S. presented by FanDuel TV G1
Adare Manor Filly $240,000 Grade 1 winner Clement L. Hirsch S. Presented by Oak Tree Racing Association G1
Rodriguez Colt $622,800 Grade 2 winner Wood Memorial S. Presented by Resorts World Casino G2
Nysos Colt $381,900 Grade 2 winner San Diego H. G2
Richi (CHI) Filly $264,000 Grade 2 winner Santa Maria S. G2
Barnes Colt $259,000 Grade 2 winner San Vicente S. G2
Seismic Beauty Filly $236,840 Grade 2 winner Santa Margarita S. G2
Horse Sex Earnings Best Race Class Best Stake
American Pharoah Colt $8,650,300 Horse of the year Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands G1
Authentic Colt $7,201,200 Horse of the year Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve G1
Point Given Colt $3,968,500 Horse of the year Preakness S. G1
Justify Colt $3,798,000 Horse of the year Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve G1
National Treasure Colt $5,533,000 Champion older dirt male Preakness S. G1
Silver Charm Colt $4,444,369 Champion 3-year-old colt Kentucky Derby G1
Lookin At Lucky Colt $3,307,278 Champion 2-year-old colt Preakness S. G1
Real Quiet Colt $3,271,802 Champion 3-year-old colt Kentucky Derby G1
War Emblem Colt $3,125,000 Champion 3-year-old colt Kentucky Derby G1
Arrogate Colt $17,422,600 Champion 3-year-old colt Pegasus World Cup Invitational S. G1
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