Legendary trainer watched first Pacific Classic from viewing stands; Saturday, he'll go for seventh Classic victory
“It was 1991,” he said. “I was just getting started as a trainer. I think I had five horses. I couldn’t afford an assistant, so I was busy feeding them and taking care of them after a long day.
But Baffert has the next two morning-line picks in Arabian Knight and Defunded . And he has two of the top jockeys at Del Mar over the last decade — Flavien Prat aboard Arabian Night and Juan Hernandez on Defunded. “Arabian Knight is fast,” Baffert said of the son of Uncle Mo. “I don’t know about the distance. But I wanted to give him the Pacific Classic as another Grade I race.”
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