Trainer Bob Baffert had good reason why he named veteran jockey Edwin Maldonado to ride Merneith in Saturday's $200,000 Grade II Santa Monica Stakes at Santa Anita.Maldonado, 38, hadn't ridden for Baffert in a few years, but the Hall of Fame trainer wanted a good speed rider aboard the 4-year-old American Pharoah filly, and the […]
