Baffert, Espinoza donate Belmont winnings

Bob and Jill Baffert were feeling especially charitable after making history with a Triple Crown.

Shortly after the Belmont Stakes, the couple announced they will donate $50,000 to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund, in memory of Bobby Adair. Adair, an American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame jockey, died last month at the age of 71.

The Bafferts also will donate $50,000 to the California Retirement Management Account (CARMA), a non profit charity created to raise money for retired California racehorses.

Another $50,000 will go to Old Friends Farm, where Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Silver Charm recently retired. The Thoroughbred retirement facility is operated by Michael Blowen in Georgetown, Ky., where Baffert saw Silver Charm for the first time in more than a decade before this year's Derby.

"I want to share this, I want to make sure that those horses that we really love, we have to take care of them," Baffert said following American Pharoah's Belmont victory. "Win, lose, or draw, I was going to do it."

Likewise, jockey Victor Espinoza won't keep any of his Belmont winnings, saying after Saturday's race they'll go to a California cancer treatment center.

At the wire I was like, 'I cannot believe I did it,'" Espinoza said. "I (won) the Triple Crown race now, but I didn't make any money, because I donated my money to the City of Hope."

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