Los Alamitos Derby fits Bob Baffert best again

CYPRESS — Bob Baffert spent the afternoon telling old stories about his early days in quarter-horse racing at Los Alamitos Race Course.

Then he went out and made new history at the Orange County track’s early-summer thoroughbred meet.

Baffert saddled Wynstock and Cornell for a tight 1-2 finish in the $100,000 Los Alamitos Derby, making it eight years in a row that he has won the facility’s marquee race for 3-year-olds and the third time in the past five years that he has swept the exacta.