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Race Horse Trainer Bob Baffert Elected To Horse Racing’s Hall Of Fame
Race horse trainer Bob Baffert, who saddled 3 Kentucky Derby winners, was elected Monday to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame. The induction ceremonies are on August 14.
Bob Baffert won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness with Silver Charm, Real Quiet and War Emblem, but failed to complete the Triple Crown sweep in the Belmont Stakes each time. Baffert has trained the winners of 8 Triple Crown races, 7 Breeders’ Cup races and has handled 10 champions, including Silverbulletday.
Other horse racing Hall of Fame inductees announced by the museum in Saratoga Springs are jockey Eddie Maple, steeplechase trainer Janet Elliot and race horses Ben Nevis II, Tiznow and Silverbulletday, a mare trained by Bob Baffert.
After starting out training quarter horses Bob Baffert made the switch to thoroughbreds in the late 1970s. Through 2008, Bob Baffert ranked fifth among trainers in career earnings at $134.8 million.
“It’s the ultimate honor you can receive as a horse trainer in the business,” said race horse trainer Bob Baffert, who credited his father, Bill, a quarter horse trainer, with getting him started in horse racing. “It’s really emotional for me. I’m basically a product of my dad getting me going.”
Jockey Eddie Maple won 4,398 races over a 34-year career. He retired in 1998.”I’m tickled to death,” Eddie Maple said. “It’s just a great honor. I enjoyed riding all those years and to have something like this come back is really, really thrilling.”
Eddie Maple won the Belmont Stakes on Temperence Hill and Creme Fraiche, and he rode Secretariat to victory in the Canadian International, the colt’s final start.
“It was a pretty touching moment for a lot of people,” jockey Eddie Maple recalled.
Among Eddie Maple’s other stakes-winning mounts were the Woody Stephens-trained quartet of Conquistador Cielo, Devil’s Bag, Swale and Forty Niner.
Janet Elliot becomes the first woman trainer elected to the Hall of Fame and just the second overall. Jockey Julie Krone was elected in 2000.
The Irish-born Janet Elliot worked for Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard for nearly a decade before opening her own stable in 1979. Janet Elliot won the inaugural running of the Breeders’ Cup Steeplechase in 1986 with Census, and trained champions Corregio and Flat Top. Elliot ranks third in career earnings by a steeplechase trainer.
Silverbulletday won 15 of 23 career starts, earned $3,093,207 and was the champion in 1998-99, winning 6 races as a 2-year-old, including the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, and another 5 the following year.
The California-bred Tiznow won 8 of 15 starts and earned $6,427,830. Tiznow was the 3-year-old male champion and Horse of the Year in 2000 and the older male champion in 2001 while becoming the only 2-time winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Ben Nevis II was bred in Great Britain and was brought to the U.S. by the late Redmond Stewart Jr. Race horse Ben Nevis II won the 1977 and 1978 runnings of the Maryland Hunt Club, a demanding event over 4 miles and 22 fences. In 1980, he won England’s Grand National, becoming just the third U.S.-based horse to finish first.
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