Word: criollito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money and love in Thoroughbreds. "Bob is driving the bus," he says. "Gary and I are just along for the ride." The bus ride began when Baffert ran into the Lewises at a Huntington Beach, Calif., restaurant the week before last year's Derby. He talked them into entering Criollito in the 1996 Churchill Downs Handicap on Derby Day. While discussing Criollito's training with Lewis later that week, Baffert sold him on Silver Charm. Criollito won, but the Lewises had to watch the race at the Louisville Airport because they were on their way back to California...
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