The larger-than-life Bob Baffert is returning to the Kentucky Derby. The identity crisis he represents in racing never left.

The story of Bob Baffert is not a tale of a singular sinner, but instead a parable for a sport struggling to explain its welfare and medication practices to an American public that increasingly disapproves of it.

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