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It's not often Bob Baffert makes it to the barn when the first number on the clock is a six, much less a five.
But there was Baffert at 5:50 a.m. Sunday morning, looking bright-eyed, satisfied and downright elated the day after winning his fifth Preakness with Lookin At Lucky. He was in such a good mood, he said, that he bounced out of bed and wanted to go straight to the barn. He was having so much fun talking to a handful of bleary-eyed reporters, he decided to parody Robert Duvall's famous line from "Apocalypse Now."
"I love Pimlico the morning after you win," Baffert said. "Smells like ... victory!"
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