![]() ![]() Baffert believed American Pharoah was unsettled by the crowd noise at Del Mar and quickly found a solution. He never relaxed and it all went sideways.”Īmerican Pharoah finished fifth in his debut that day, well back of winner Om, who went on to become a multiple graded stakes winner. In the post parade, in the gate, same thing. “He was acting up in the paddock and just never got comfortable in the environment around him. Everything that could have gone wrong absolutely did,” said Baffert, American Pharoah’s trainer and a 2009 Hall of Fame inductee. Bob Baffert described American Pharoah’s career debut at Del Mar in August 2014 as “a complete disaster.”
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