My Take
Bob Baffert is basically the closest thing American horse racing has to a dynasty builder — the guy trained two Triple Crown winners, American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018, which is something no other trainer in history has pulled off. Six Kentucky Derby wins, eight Preakness Stakes titles — the records speak for themselves. And yet Baffert has always been a polarizing figure: that shock of white hair, the showman's confidence, the controversies that followed him into the 2020s. You can't deny the talent, though. Whatever you think of the man off the track, watching his horses run is something else entirely — there's a reason he's won multiple Eclipse Awards and keeps dominating the sport decade after decade.
Overview
Robert A. Baffert (born January 13, 1953) is an American racehorse trainer. He has trained two Triple Crown winners: American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018. Baffert's horses have won the Kentucky Derby six times, tying the record with Ben A. Jones for wins by a trainer. He holds the trainer record for the Preakness Stakes with eight wins and has won the Belmont Stakes and Kentucky Oaks three times each.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Bob Baffert
- Name (Japanese)
- ボブ・バファート
- Reading
- ぼぶ・ばふぁーと
- Born
- January 13, 1953 (age 73)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Snake
- Origin
- Nogales, Arizona, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- horse trainer / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Nogales High School
- University
- University of Arizona
Awards & achievements
- 1997 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer
- 1998 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer
- 1999 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer
- 2015 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://bobbaffert.com/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.