This year marks NBC’s 25th production of the Kentucky Derby and the first Run for the Roses since 2021 for polarizing trainer Bob Baffert, who returns this weekend after serving out a three-year suspension.

Three years after Medina Spirit's victory was stripped due to a failed drug test, Baffert looks to reclaim his place at Churchill Downs.

No horse trainer has won the Kentucky Derby more times than Bob Baffert, who will be chasing a record seventh title at Churchill Downs this weekend when he returns following a suspension that kept him on the sidelines for the last three years.