(Trainer Bob Baffert / Photos by Holly M. Smith)

From the KY HBPA / Jennie Rees:

Derby/Oaks related video interviews

  • Bob Baffert’s first Derby backstretch interview
  • Wellman talks fave Journalism, Built in Pat Day Mile
The videos linked below are available for media use as part of the Kentucky HBPA’s ongoing initiative to provide news outlets with supplemental content on the run-up to the Kentucky Derby. If using video, a Kentucky HBPA credit is appreciated when feasible. Unless specified otherwise, videos were shot by Jennie Rees, tracksidejennie@gmail.com.

Friday April 25

Six-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert had his first Derby Week backstretch media gaggle Friday morning in four years after his Derby contenders Rodriguez and Citizen Bull and Oaks contender Tenma trained on a damp morning.

Aron Wellman, president of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, starts off discussing the decision to bypass the Kentucky Derby with Built in favor of the G2 Pat Day Mile on the undercard. Wellman also talks extensively about KY Derby favorite Journalism, which Eclipse owns with partners.