Baffert

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Three-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame Friday along with trainer Janet Eliot, jockey Eddie Maple and three horses.

Baffert, winner of three Eclipse Awards as the nation's outstanding trainer, won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness with Silver Charm, Real Quiet and War Emblem. He has trained the winners of eight Triple Crown races, seven Breeders' Cup races and developed 10 champions, including Silverbulletday, who was among Friday's inductees.

"I never had a plan," Baffert said at the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame. "The horses have taken me places I never thought of being. I've had quite an interesting journey. I wanted to be a jockey. I never wanted to be a trainer. I wanted to go to Los Alamitos and win the all-American Futurity. My mother was totally against me riding. We had to keep it secret."

Silverbulletday won 15 of 23 career starts and was the champion filly at ages 2 and 3, in 1998-99, winning six races as a juvenile, including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.