Trainer Bob Baffert has added graded stakes-winning trainer Dan Ward as an assistant to his Midwest team ahead of the Churchill Downs spring meet, which begins Saturday, according to the Daily Racing Form. Baffert is expected to have over 30 horses arrive in Louisville from California this week, including some of his leading runners, with his new Kentucky division expected to stay active beyond the meet.
Ward was approached by Baffert earlier in the year about joining his team.
“He asked me, ‘What is your level of interest?’ ” Ward told DRF. “I said, ‘I’m very interested.’ I don’t think there was any way to turn it down if I wanted to work with good horses.”…