Bob Baffert's Kentucky Derby return: A timeline of the saga that kept the famed trainer from Churchill Downs

The 151st running of the Kentucky Derby will take place at the famous Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday, May 3, and returning for the first time in four years will be Hall of Fame horse trainer, Bob Baffert. 

Baffert, one of the most successful trainers in the history of the sport, returns this year after having missed the first leg of the Triple Crown for three consecutive years – a suspension that began with his record-breaking seventh victory at the race in 2021 that was later stripped because of a failed drug test.

Baffert, one of only two trainers to ever win the coveted Triple Crown on two occasions, became considered by some an outcast in the horse racing community following the fal...