The brutal week of baffled Bob Baffert

America’s leading racehorse trainer is so upset that he has called an impromptu press conference at his barn at Churchill Downs racecourse so that he can share his anguish with the world

GLORY DAYS: Bob Baffert with Justify ahead of the 2018 Preakness Stakes, a race he won en route to landing the American triple crown. Justify’s reputation was tainted when it emerged after his track career had ended and a $60m (€49.6m) stud syndication was secured, that he had failed a drug test following victory in a spring trial. Picture: Rob Carr/Getty Images

Sunday

Bob Baffert is baffled. Not just everyday, run of the mill type baffled, but totally and utterly mystified, perplexed and discombobulated.