A Quote by Bob Baffert

I've won the Derby with the best horse and I've lost the Derby with the best horse. — © Bob Baffert
I've won the Derby with the best horse and I've lost the Derby with the best horse.

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The horse that wins the Derby is usually the best horse.
To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.
The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether
When I got a call to see if I wanted a Derby horse, I said, 'Damn!'
I think everyone knows what it means to play a derby - it doesn't matter which derby it is.
I kind of press pause when it's a derby, and the season doesn't matter to me anymore; it's all about the derby.
The horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.
A derby is a derby. When you play a derby, it is for winning, not just to play.
I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.
In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!
Sometimes in a derby it is not always easy to see a very good game with big quality but the power of one derby means you can see good things happen after one result.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.
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