TRIPLE CROWN: Baffert leads all trainers with 35 nominations (The Associated Press)
Bob Baffert is ahead of the pack again, leading all trainers with 35 horses nominated to the Triple Crown races. The trainer of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has nearly 10 percent of the 368 early nominations released by Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday. Todd Pletcher is second among trainers with 28 nominations, and Chad Brown is next with 12.