LOUISVILLE, Ky. _ To become the best, it helps to be obsessed. Except for his family, nothing means as much to Bob Baffert as the great race at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May. Even after sweeping the Triple Crown with American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify last spring.
"The Kentucky Derby is still the one," said Baffert, who's won five of them. "It's still the most important race. To me the bar is the Derby. The Triple Crown is great, but there's just something about the Derby. I could just win the Derby and just go home."
Since their marriage in 2002, Jill Baffert has lived with his dream. "The Kentucky Derby is a driving force in Bob's life," she told NBCSN's Jill Whitley. "He starts thinking about it very early in a horse's career."
