Bob Baffert

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. From there, he moved to racing at recognized tracks, scoring his first victory at age 17 in 1970.{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/great-reads/la-sp-c1-baffert-triple-crown-20150605-story.html#page=1 |title=Bob Baffert Has Come a Long Way in Horse Racing|first=David|last=Wharton|date=June 5, 2015|access-date=June 6, 2015|work=Los Angeles Times}}

Baffert graduated from the University of Arizona's Race Track Industry Program with a Bachelor of Science degree,{{cite web|url= http://www.bobbaffert.com/bio.html |title=About Bob Baffert |publisher=Bob Baffert Riding Stables |access-date=January 15, 2013 }} 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. His first winner was Flipper Star at Rillito Park on January 28, 1979. In the 1980s, Baffert moved to California and worked at Los Alamitos Race Course, where he switched to training Thoroughbreds full-time in 1991. He got his first big break in 1992 when he won his first Breeder's Cup race with Thirty Slews.{{cite web |title=NYRA Media Guide 2021 (PDF) |url=https://www.nyra.com/uploads/belmont/assets/uploads/2021MediaGuideHistory_Complete_FINAL_1.pdf |website=NYRA.com |access-date=9 May 2021 |pages=50–52}}

Baffert established his early reputation with less expensive horses like Silver Charm and Real Quiet, bought for $16,500 and $17,000 respectively. Fellow trainer D. Wayne Lukas attributed Baffert's success to his "extraordinary eye for a good horse" and his management ability in finding the right opportunities for his charges.{{cite web |title=Baffert nears $300M mark with an all-star stable |url=https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/241285/baffert-nears-300m-mark-with-an-all-star-stable |website=www.bloodhorse.com |access-date=9 May 2021}}

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 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, and 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 did not win another classic race until 2001, when he won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes with eventual Hall of Fame member Point Given. He finished third in the Derby that year with Congaree. Baffert won the Derby a third time in 2002 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 trained Lookin At Lucky, co-owned by 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.

In 2015, Baffert trained the 2014 champion two-year-old colt American Pharoah to win the Triple Crown, the first to do so in 37 years. In winning the 141st Kentucky Derby, bringing his total number of victories in the race to four; Baffert also ran the third-place finisher, the previously undefeated colt Dortmund. American Pharoah next won the 140th Preakness Stakes, making six victories in that race for Baffert, who also finished fourth with Dortmund. Then, when American Pharoah won the 2015 Belmont Stakes, the win was the fourth attempt at a Triple Crown for Baffert, who at age 62 became the second-oldest trainer to win a Triple Crown.{{cite web|author1=ESPN News Service|title=American Pharoah claims first Triple Crown since 1978|url=https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/13025872/american-pharoah-wins-belmont-stakes-claims-triple-crown|website=ESPN.com|access-date=June 6, 2015|date=June 6, 2015}}

Baffert also trained the 2018 Triple Crown Winner, Justify and the 2020 Kentucky Derby winner, Authentic.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Te2lo8PYgw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/0Te2lo8PYgw |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|date=September 5, 2020 |title=Bob Baffert discusses tumble in Kentucky Derby winner's circle |medium=News |work=WLKY |access-date=September 6, 2020}}{{cbignore}} His horse Medina Spirit, who finished first in the 2021 Kentucky Derby, was later disqualified for a medication violation. Medina Spirit's drug violation led to several racetracks suspending Baffert from entering races, including a ban of over three years by tracks owned by Churchill Downs.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5648116/2024/07/19/churchill-downs-bob-baffert-suspension/|title=Churchill Downs rescinds horse trainer Bob Baffert's suspension after more than 3 years |last=Weese|first=Lukas|date=19 July 2024|publisher=The Athletic|access-date=19 July 2024}}

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. 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, the same year as a filly he trained, Silverbulletday.{{Cite web|url=http://www.racingmuseum.org/news/nrm-news-view-story-detail.asp?varID=214|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424211418/http://www.racingmuseum.org/news/nrm-news-view-story-detail.asp?varID=214|title=Press Release Racing Museum April 20, 2009|archive-date=April 24, 2009}} Point Given was nominated in 2009, but elected and inducted in 2010.

Baffert has trained horses that won seventeen American Classic Races, nineteen Breeders' Cup races, four Dubai World Cups and three Pegasus World Cups. His graded stakes wins include nine wins in the Santa Anita Derby, nine in the Haskell Invitational Handicap, ten in the Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes, and eighteen in the Del Mar Futurity, a race he won seven straight times from 1996 to 2002, when it was a Grade II event. He also won the race in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 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 with Abel Tasman in 2017.

In 2010, 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 instead of a trainer.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

Baffert has been a subject of controversy due to multiple horses in his stables having failed drug tests. In raw numbers, most medication violations were for exceeding allowable levels on race days of various medications that are legal to be used for certain therapeutic purposes.{{cite web |title=The last stand of Bob Baffert, horse racing's most successful and embattled trainer |url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-10-01/bob-baffert-rise-fall-from-horse-racing-drug-violations |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=6 January 2022 |date=1 October 2021}}{{Cite web|title=Thoroughbred Regulatory Rulings|url=https://www.thoroughbredrulings.com/|website=Thoroughbred Regulatory Rulings}} However, his pattern of routinely challenging most sanctions, usually agreeing to accept fines but vigorously fighting suspensions, led critics such as owner and racing reform advocate Barry Irwin to state, "He's Mr. Teflon." His supporters argue that it is Baffert's style and personality that have made him a target. Longtime client Mike Pegram explained, "Anybody who walks with that swagger, people are going to love him or hate him…he's a wiseass and irreverent." Former client Kaleem Shah said, "He will rub people the wrong way by speaking his mind, sometimes he needs to hit the mute button."

His first suspension was in 1977 for misuse of morphine, but thereafter he had no violations for the next eight years. Baffert came under intense scrutiny in 2013 after seven horses in his stables at Hollywood Park died between November 2, 2011, and March 14, 2013, all from sudden and later unexplained heart attacks. In that period, 36% of all cardiac related horse deaths in California were animals trained by Baffert.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/121867/baffert-horses-big-part-of-sudden-death-spike|title=Baffert Horses Big Part of Sudden Death Spike|last=Mitchell|first=Eric|date=April 10, 2013|access-date=January 4, 2022|website=www.bloodhorse.com}} California's equine medical director found that Baffert's horses were routinely given Thyro-L, or thyroxine, a thyroid hormone, that could cause heart problems during exercise, but concluded the medication, which Baffert said he had been using routinely for the previous five years, did not cause the heart attacks. No sanctions were issued against Baffert.{{Cite web|title=Report on the investigation and review of the seven sudden deaths on the Hollywood Park main track of horses trained by Bob Baffert and stabled in Barn 61|url=http://www.chrb.ca.gov/veterinary_reports/baffert_sudden_death_report_final_1121.pdf|url-status=live|website=California Horse Racing Board|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211091018/http://www.chrb.ca.gov/veterinary_reports/baffert_sudden_death_report_final_1121.pdf|archive-date=February 11, 2014|access-date=January 4, 2022}}{{Cite web|date=2013-04-10|title= Cardiac Failure Fatalities Spike in California, Baffert Barn|url=https://www.paulickreport.com/news/ray-s-paddock/sudden-equine-fatalities-spike-in-california-baffert-barn/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Horse Racing News {{!}} Paulick Report|language=en}}

One of his highest profile violations came to light In September 2019 The New York Times reported that Justify tested positive for the banned substance scopolamine after winning the Santa Anita Derby, a race the horse ran prior to winning the Triple Crown.{{Cite web |last=Drape |first=Joe |date=11 September 2019 |title=Justify Failed a Drug Test Before Winning the Triple Crown |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/sports/horse-racing/justify-drug-test-triple-crown-kentucky-derby.html |website=The New York Times}} After extensive legal battles, in December 2023 a judge ordered stewards of the California Horse Racing Board to issue a new ruling which would effectively disqualify Justify from that win.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-12-01/justify-2018-santa-anita-derby-win-judge-ruling|title=Justify's win in 2018 Santa Anita Derby in doubt after judge's ruling|first=John|last=Cherwa|date=1 December 2023|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=1 December 2023}}

Other high-profile cases included the disqualification of Gamine after a third-place finish in the 2020 Kentucky Oaks for betamethasone,{{cite web |last1=Frakes |first1=Jason |title=Bob Baffert fined $1,500, Gamine disqualified from third-place finish in Kentucky Oaks |url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/horse-racing/2021/02/04/baffert-fined-gamine-disqualified-show-finish-kentucky-oaks/4390811001/ |work=The Courier-Journal |date=4 February 2021 |access-date=6 July 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/kentucky-derby/2021/05/10/kentucky-derby-bob-baffert-and-medina-spirit-positive-drug-test/5016477001/|title=Here's what we know following Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit's positive drug test|first=Reina|last=Kempt|newspaper=The Courier-Journal|access-date=October 25, 2021}} Cases against two horses who tested positive in Arkansas in 2020 for lidocaine were dismissed as being the result of accidental transfer from an assistant trainer who was using the medication on himself. Nonetheless, Arkansas suspended Baffert for 15 days.{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/ky-state-wire-bob-baffert-sports-360b419b7f6fde781c78899976e2be7c|title=Bob Baffert no stranger to failed drug tests by his horses|first=Gary B.|last=Graves|work=Associated Press|date=10 May 2021|access-date=12 May 2021}}

The biggest case arose in 2021, when the post-race test of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit showed 21pg/mL of betamethasone.{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/09/sport/medina-spirit-betamethasone-bob-baffert/index.html|title=Medina Spirit's Kentucky Derby win in doubt after postrace drug test|website=CNN|date=May 9, 2021 |access-date=9 May 2021}} In Kentucky, any amount of betamethasone detected in post-race testing is a violation and could result in a disqualification.{{Cite web|date=April 2020|title=Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Withdrawal Guidelines Thoroughbred; Standardbred; Quarter Horse, Appaloosa, and Arabian|url=https://khrc.ky.gov/Documents/8-020-2-Withdrawal%20Guidelines%20%20Copy.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=9 May 2021|website=Kentucky Horse Racing Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022123258/http://khrc.ky.gov/Documents/8-020-2-Withdrawal%20Guidelines%20%20Copy.pdf|archive-date=October 22, 2020}} It was also Baffert's fifth medication violation in 13 months.{{cite web |title=Baffert: Meds applied to Derby winner had steroid |url=https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/31426817/bob-baffert-says-medina-spirit-was-treated-ointment-contained-steroid |website=ESPN.com |access-date=6 January 2022 |language=en |date=11 May 2021}}

At a news conference on May 9, Baffert initially claimed that Medina Spirit was never administered betamethasone, telling reporters he would fight the issue "...tooth and nail."{{cite web |url=https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/250027/medina-spirit-tests-positive-for-betamethasone|title=Medina Spirit Tests Positive for Betamethasone|last=Crosby|first=Claire|date=9 May 2021|website=Bloodhorse.com|publisher=The BloodHorse|access-date=9 May 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/medina-sports-f91ccf1fb6a44c3f948a3a2cd2c8c1a9|title=Baffert says Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive|last=Graves|first=Gary|date=9 May 2021|website=apnews.com|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=9 May 2021}} Nonetheless, Churchill Downs suspended Baffert pending the outcome of an investigation.{{cite press release |author= |title=Churchill Downs' Statement in Response to Medina Spirit's Post-Race Test Result Allegations |url=https://www.kentuckyderby.com/uploads/wysiwyg/assets/uploads/20210509_Medina_Spirit_Statement.pdf |location=Louisville, KY|publisher=Churchill Downs Incorporated|date=9 May 2021|access-date=9 May 2021}} Baffert responded by saying the situation "was like a cancel culture kind of a thing," a remark which earned him criticism from the press.{{Cite web|date=2021-05-10|title=Trainer: Kentucky Derby winner faces disqualification due to 'cancel culture'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/10/bob-baffert-medina-spirit-kentucky-derby-horse-racing-cancel-culture-disqualification|access-date=2021-05-10|website=The Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Gaydos|first=Ryan|date=2021-05-10|title=Bob Baffert asserts Medina Spirit's Kentucky Derby win was valid, invokes 'cancel culture'|url=https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bob-baffert-medina-spirits-kentucky-derby-win-valid-cancel-culture|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Fox News|language=en-US}} Sports Illustrated suggested that the positive drug test was a sign that Baffert's "leaking credibility" had reached "the saturation point."{{Cite magazine|last=Forde|first=Pat|title=Baffert's Leaking Credibility Reaches Saturation Point|url=https://www.si.com/horse-racing/2021/05/09/bob-baffert-leaking-credibility-medina-spirit-drug-positive|access-date=2021-05-10|magazine=Sports Illustrated|language=en-us}} Next, on May 11, Baffert stated Medina Spirit had dermatitis, for which an ointment containing betamethasone was used.{{Cite web|date=2021-05-11|title=Bob Baffert says Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit was treated with ointment that contained steroid|url=https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/31426817/bob-baffert-says-medina-spirit-was-treated-ointment-contained-steroid|access-date=2021-05-18|website=Espn.com}}{{Cite magazine|last=Forde|first=Pat|title=Baffert Has Turned Medina Spirit Controversy Into a Circus|url=https://www.si.com/horse-racing/2021/05/10/bob-baffert-medina-spirit-steroid-controversy-circus|access-date=2021-05-10|magazine=Sports Illustrated|language=en-us}} On June 2, 2021, Medina Spirit's split sample also tested positive and Churchill Downs suspended Baffert through the end of the 2023 Spring Meet.{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=H. R. N.|title=Churchill Downs Inc. suspends Baffert for 2 years|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/churchill-downs-suspends-trainer-bob-202045568.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-02|website=Horse Racing Nation|date=June 2, 2021 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602223031/https://sports.yahoo.com/churchill-downs-suspends-trainer-bob-202045568.html|archive-date=June 2, 2021}}

On May 17, 2021, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) banned Baffert from entering Medina Spirit or any of his other horses in the 2021 Belmont Stakes or any other race at Belmont Park.{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/31462471/trainer-bob-baffert-banned-entering-medina-spirit-other-horses-belmont-park|title=Trainer Bob Baffert suspended from entering Medina Spirit, other horses at Belmont Park|agency=Associated Press|website=Espn.com|date=May 17, 2021|access-date=May 18, 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/sports/horse-racing/bob-baffert-suspended-belmont.html|title=New York Racing Officials Suspend Baffert From Belmont Stakes|first=Joe|last=Drape|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 17, 2021|access-date=May 18, 2021}} On June 14, 2021, Baffert sued the NYRA alleging the association had no authority to suspend his license and that suspension "without prior notice" was a violation of the law.{{Cite news|date=June 14, 2021|title=Trainer Bob Baffert sues to get New York suspension lifted|work=Associated Press|url=https://apnews.com/article/bob-baffert-new-york-sports-aae548c86a1a14ea7d314c1ab67f9982|access-date=July 13, 2021}}{{Cite news|last=Freiman|first=Jordan|date=June 14, 2021|title=Horse trainer Bob Baffert sues New York racing officials over suspension|work=CBS News|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-baffert-sues-nyra-over-suspension/|access-date=July 13, 2021}} On July 14 the suspension was reversed by the U. S. Federal District Court based on the NYRA having not allowed Baffert a forum to refute their claims stating that the NYRA "had held no hearing — let alone a prompt one."{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/31633157/bob-baffert-trainer-medina-spirit-sues-new-york-racing-association-suspension|title=Baffert sues to overturn New York racing ban|date=June 15, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-nullifies-horse-trainer-bob-baffert-s-ny-suspension-n1274029|title=Judge nullifies horse trainer Bob Baffert's NY suspension|website=Nbcnews.com|date=July 15, 2021 |access-date=October 25, 2021}} On September 10, 2021, Baffert was charged by NYRA for conduct detrimental to the best interests of racing.{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/baffert-charged-york-racing-scheduled-162714013.html|title=Baffert charged by New York Racing, scheduled for hearing|website=News.yahoo.com|date=September 10, 2021 |access-date=October 25, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/571744-legendary-horse-trainer-charged-again-following|title=Legendary horse trainer charged again following Kentucky Derby scandal|first=Adam|last=Barnes|date=September 10, 2021|website=The Hill|access-date=October 25, 2021}} Additional charges were added on January 3, 2022.{{cite web |title=NYRA Amends Charges Against Baffert to Include Bute Overages |url=https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/nyra-amends-charges-against-baffert-to-include-bute-overages/ |website=TDN {{!}} Thoroughbred Daily News |access-date=6 January 2022 |language=en |date=3 January 2022}}

In February 2022, Baffert was suspended 90 days and fined $7,500 by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. The suspension was scheduled to run March 8 through June 5. Baffert was granted a stay until April 4 to gain time for an appeal.{{Cite web |title=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Forbes |language=en}} However, the Kentucky Court of Appeals rejected Baffert's appeal on April 1. This in turn led to a ban from all California Horse Racing Board facilities beginning April 4 due to a rule removing any trainer under a 60-day or higher ban from all CHRB facilities. Further, the 90 day ban against Baffert in Kentucky was set to be honored in all 38 racing states.{{Cite web |title=The Seattle Times |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.seattletimes.com |language=en-US}}

Controversy deepened on December 6, 2021 when Medina Spirit died of an apparent heart attack after a workout at Santa Anita Park.{{Cite web|date=2021-12-06|title=Medina Spirit Dies of Apparent Heart Attack at Santa Anita|url=https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/medina-spirit-dies-of-apparent-heart-attack-at-santa-anita/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=TDN {{!}} Thoroughbred Daily News|language=en}} This reminded the public that since 2000, at least 74 other horses had died while in Baffert's stables. Though number of racing starts are used to calculate rates of death for all horses in the care of race trainers, not all horse deaths were animals in race training nor were they necessarily race-related fatalities.{{Cite news|last=Garcia-Roberts|first=Gus|date=June 18, 2021|title=The dark side of Bob Baffert's reign|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/18/bob-baffert-horse-deaths-drug-violations/|url-status=live|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619100212/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/18/bob-baffert-horse-deaths-drug-violations/|archive-date=June 19, 2021|access-date=January 4, 2022}}

Baffert's ban at Churchill Downs' racetracks was extended in July 2023. One year later, in July 2024, Churchill Downs rescinded the ban after Baffert issued a statement accepting responsibility for Medina Spirit's drug positive and for any substance found in the horses that he trained. "I have paid a very steep price with a three-year suspension and the disqualification of Medina Spirit’s performance," he said, adding that he was "committed to having an amicable resolution with Churchill Downs in order to have the opportunity to compete again for the Triple Crown."

Baffert has been married twice and has five children: four with his first wife, Sherry. He married his second wife, Jill, a former television reporter based in Louisville, in 2002. They had a son in 2004. Baffert and his family reside in California.

Baffert survived a heart attack in late March 2012 while in Dubai conditioning Game On Dude to compete in the Dubai World Cup.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trainer-bob-baffert-has-heart-attack-in-dubai/|title=Trainer Bob Baffert has heart attack in Dubai|date=26 March 2012|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=19 July 2024}}

Following the 2015 Belmont win, Baffert outlined several charities that he and his wife Jill supported. He had been paid $200,000 to allow the Burger King to stand behind him in the grandstand during the televised broadcast of the Belmont, after having turned down $150,000 to allow the mascot to appear with him at the Preakness.{{cite web|last1=Paulick|first1=Ray|title=Bafferts Make Whopper Of A Donation To Equine Charities|url=http://www.paulickreport.com/news/triple-crown/bafferts-make-whopper-of-a-donation-to-equine-charities/|website=Paulick Report|access-date=June 8, 2015|date=June 8, 2015}} At the post-Belmont press conference, Baffert announced he and his wife would be making donations of $50,000 each to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, the California Retirement Management Account (CARMA), and Old Friends Equine, all programs for retired race horses; and to the Permanently Disabled Jockey's Fund in memory of a Quarter Horse Jockey named Robert Z. "Bobby" Adair.{{cite web|title=2015 Belmont Stakes Press Conference|url=http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/videos/13771/2015-belmont-stakes-press-conference|website=The Blood Horse|access-date=June 6, 2015 |format=video|date=June 6, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/triple/belmont/2015/06/06/triple-crown--bob-baffert-victor-espinoza-donate-belmont-stakes-winnings-to-charity/28631173/|title=Bafferts, Espinoza donate Belmont winnings|first=Steve|last=Myrick|date=June 6, 2015|access-date=June 7, 2015|work=The Courier-Journal}} A friend of Baffert's and an inductee into the American Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame, Adair died on Preakness Day, May 16, 2015, at 71. Baffert dedicated American Pharoah's win to Bobby.{{cite web|author1=Press release|title=Robert Adair Dies|url=http://www.aqha.com/Racing/News-Articles/Hall-of-Fame-Jockey-Robert-Adair-Dies.aspx|access-date=June 7, 2015|date=May 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614134115/http://www.aqha.com/Racing/News-Articles/Hall-of-Fame-Jockey-Robert-Adair-Dies.aspx|archive-date=June 14, 2015}}

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