“As a horse trainer, what you learn is that you can’t, you know, it’s not good to look back at what’s already happened,” Bob Baffert said just weeks ago, as he was getting ready to make his Kentucky Derby comeback. However, the Churchill Downs didn’t prove to be the stage that reinstated the 72-year-old trainer to his high throne. But this Saturday, Baffert will have another shot at redemption.
On May 17, with the Pimlico Race Course hosting the second leg of the Triple Crown, Bob Baffert will enter the 150th Preakness Stakes with Goal Oriented. And as the decorated racehorse trainer awaits yet another test of his long career, he can’t help but fondly look back.
The official Preakness Stakes X account shared a post on May 13 to reveal Bob Baffert’s feelings ahead of the big weekend race. In the accompanying video, the horse racing celebrity talked about his previous appearances at the iconic race course. Among those, one particularly stood out: Justify‘s incredible 2018 season. The Bob Baffert-trained thoroughbred won the coveted Triple Crown that year, and as its trainer looks to recreate the same scenes this Saturday, he still seems unable to forget how things went down that fateful day seven years ago.
“I mean, I remember the fog and you couldn’t see the race. You’d be in front and the fog. And I was just hoping he’d be in front out of the fog. And he won that. And what a ride he took us on,” Baffert said, and we bet his eyes behind those iconic blue-tinted sunglasses couldn’t stop gleaming.
Eight-time Preakness winner, Bob Baffert tells us about some of his favorite memories at @PimlicoRC. pic.twitter.com/gNWcqsUmAg
— Preakness Stakes (@PreaknessStakes) May 13, 2025
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