Accomplishments
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. Among his numerous accomplishments, Baffert has trained Thoroughbred horses that won nine American Classic Races, seven Breeders' Cup races, and two Dubai World Cups. In 2010 Baffert scored a first when Misremembered; a horse he bred, which is owned by his wife Jill and good friend George Jacobs, won the Santa Anita Handicap marking his first Grade I win as a breeder. He has a number of record wins in prestigious races: including 6 wins in the Grade I Santa Anita Derby, 6 wins in the Grade I Haskell Invitational Handicap, and 11 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 successive years in 2008 and 2009, and again in 2011 when run as a Grade I event. He has won the prestigious Grade I Kentucky Oaks twice: first in 1999 with Hall of Fame member Silverbulletday and again with Plum Pretty in 2011.
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