Santa Anita: Defunded earns Bob Baffert another Awesome Again Stakes victory

ARCADIA — Perhaps now we know why Bob Baffert has earned four Eclipse Awards as the nation’s top trainer, won the Kentucky Derby six times and stands second all-time with 17 Breeders’ Cup victories.

He’s superstitious, making sure Lady Lucky is on his side.

Baffert is on record as saying he despises it when someone tells him before a race, “See you in the winner’s circle.” It’s not good karma.

So this past week, when he, his wife Jill and their son Bode went to the TCU-SMU college football game...