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.
Lucien Laurin is also a former jockey who went on to train a Triple Crown winner. is also an ex-jockey, who later trained to become a Triple Crown winner.
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.
