Trainer Bob Baffert woke up at 5 a.m. Sunday, much earlier than he has been getting up the last 90 days. He wanted to go back to a job he has enjoyed and excelled at for more than four decades.
He considered getting up earlier but passed on the idea.
"I thought about getting there at 12:01 a.m. and go to the barn and start hammering the signs back up," he said with a laugh while sitting in box 227 in the Santa Anita grandstand watching his horses train for the first time after a three-month suspension following a positive medication test on Medina Spirit at last year's Kentucky Derby.
