Bob Baffert had everything but the roses Saturday. The five-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer won the biggest 3-year-old races of the day on the first Saturday in May, and celebrated, as he would have in Louisville, with a steak dinner from his favorite restaurant. The Arkansas Derby was split into two divisions, enabling Baffert to capture both, with Charlatan and then Nadal. Both were favored, both remained unbeaten, and both emerged from their races in good order, Baffert said Sunday morning. And courtesy of restauranteur Jeff Ruby, who overnighted to Baffert some New York strips, fillets, ample side dishes, and bread, a feast was had at Baffert’s home Saturday night. “We got to celebrate like we won the Derby. It was to die for,” Baffert said Sunday morning. “That was a good day. Now I’ve got to put them in bubble wrap. “It’s nice, but it’s sad,” Baffert said, lamenting that the Derby couldn’t be run in its usual spot owing to the coronavirus pandemic and has been postponed until Sept. 5. “It would have been nice if the Derby was run yesterday. We would have been live.” :: KENTUCKY DERBY 2020: Derby Watch, point standings, prep schedule, news, and more Nadal got a Beyer Speed Figure of 98, Charlatan 96, for their victories in the 1 1/8-mile races that were the highlights of Oaklawn’s closing day. Both were to fly home Monday from Arkansas and re-join Baffert’s barn at Santa Anita. “One thing I know now, Nadal can sit off of Charlatan, so that’s good news,” Baffert said. “Nadal, I trained him harder because he’s such a big horse. Charlatan, I went easy with him. They’re both really good.” Nadal had won the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn in his prior start. Charlatan was making his stakes debut. Both earned 100 points on the system used by Churchill Downs to determine the field for the Kentucky Derby. Baffert said he has no immediate plans for both. He will formulate a path to the Kentucky Derby once tracks across the country put out revised stakes schedules, and Churchill Downs releases an updated list of Road to the Derby points-scoring races. Baffert has another unbeaten, high-class 3-year-old in San Felipe winner Authentic, who is being readied for the Santa Anita Derby. It was postponed from April 4 and is now slotted for June 6 on a stakes schedule Santa Anita put out late last week in hopes of being allowed to re-open in the next fortnight. Authentic worked five furlongs in 1:00.40 on Sunday morning. Tampa Bay Derby winner King Guillermo, who finished second to Nadal, was being vanned back to Florida on Sunday. He is based at Gulfstream Park, but Gulfstream is requiring horses who raced at Oaklawn to quarantine upon returning to the state. Avila said King Guillermo was headed to Gelfenstein Farm in Ocala. Via his daughter Tabitha, who acted as interpreter, Avila said he’d wait a couple of weeks before thinking about a path to the Derby. He said he wanted to arrive at Churchill Downs “one month or more” prior to the Derby. :: To stay up to date, follow us on: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Finnick the Fierce, third behind Nadal, was being vanned back to Kentucky on Sunday, trainer Rey Hernandez said. “He ran a very good race,” Hernandez said. “We’ll see what’s next. One day at a time.” Trainer Todd Pletcher said Farmington Road, fourth behind Nadal, and Gouverneur Morris, third to Charlatan, both came out of their races in good shape and would return to his training center at Palm Beach Downs. He has no definite plans for both. Like others, he’s awaiting updated stakes schedules. Wells Bayou, fifth behind Nadal, “was very tired last night but cooled out well,” trainer Brad Cox said Sunday. Cox said Wells Bayou would travel to Churchill Downs “hopefully the middle of the month.” Similarly, trainer Steve Asmussen, whose Basin was second to Charlatan, said his horses would ship to Churchill Downs in mid-May based on the ship-in schedule Churchill Downs recently released. Asmussen said both Basin and Silver Prospector, who was seventh behind Nadal, came out of their races well. Asmussen said he was “freakishly disappointed” with Silver Prospector’s performance. Silver Prospector does own a win over subsequent Florida Derby winner Tiz the Law in the Kentucky Jockey Club last fall at Churchill Downs. Storm the Court, sixth behind Nadal, came out of his race in good health, according to his trainer, Peter Eurton. Upon return to Santa Anita, “We’ll give him a break, go over him with a fine-toothed comb,” Eurton said. Storm the Court is winless since last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. The eight horses exiting that race, which was run over an extremely deep, tiring surface, are a combined 2 for 19 since. Eurton said that Shooters Shoot, who had to be scratched from the division won by Charlatan after spiking a fever, was recovering satisfactorily. “His blood’s not perfect, but it’s going in the right direction,” Eurton said.