Baffert won the 1997 Kentucky Derby with Silver Charm and the 1998 running with Real Quiet. In 2002, War Emblem gave Baffert his third Derby win. In 2015, Baffert won the Kentucky Derby with American Pharoah, who went on to become the sport's first Triple Crown winner in 37 years.
In total, Baffert has run 27 horses in the Kentucky Derby, with four first-place finishers, which puts him in a tie for second with D. Wayne Lukas and Henry J. Thomason, two behind all-time leader and Calumet Farm legend Ben A. Jones. Baffert has trained three second-place Derby finishers and three third-place finishers.
If you missed it from my column on Justify, here is a chart with Baffert's Kentucky Derby record:
