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...This is as bad as I've seen it," says Bill Baffert, director of sales and marketing for Baja Resorts, which operates two hotels in Baja. Baffert has been doing business in southern Baja since 1981. "This is going to be much tougher than after 9/11...
...Baffert estimates business is down 25% from last year, with the only winners being the all-inclusive resorts, which offer rooms, food and entertainment at one price. "Everyone is discounting, even the five star hotels. People are looking at every penny, brand new luxury properties are wholesaling for $50 a night...
Trainer Bob Baffert, whose horses have won the Derby and Preakness, insists that if injuries are on the rise, it's only because the number of racehorses is too. Fifty years ago, 10,000 foals were registered annually; today that figure is 34,000. TV contributes to the sense that injuries are on the rise, broadcasting the worst ones over and over. Besides, anytime you've got 1,200 lbs. of animal on the move, accidents will happen. "I've seen horses in the paddock injure themselves," Baffert says. "Barbaro just stepped wrong...
...Baffert looks at as many as 4,000 horses each year and buys maybe 50. "The horse was just starting to come around," he says, "and [the owner] thought what everybody else thought, that he was a creature of that [short] track." He was a creature all right. Baffert put War Emblem through a crash course in obedience, changing bits and using a tongue tie to keep him under control so that he wouldn't sprint like mad for the entire race...
...Belmont, at a mile and a half the longest of the Triple Crown races by an eighth of a mile. Once again the speed horses such as Sunday Break and Perfect Drift will be gunning for War Emblem, hoping to grind him down. Bring it on, says Baffert. "Nothing that goes with him up front will be around...