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If Justify wins the 143rd Preakness Stakes as expected Saturday at Pimlico, it will be trainer Bob Baffert’s 14th victory in a Triple Crown race — tying him with D. Wayne Lukas for the all-time record. Justify gave Baffert his fifth Kentucky Derby victory — one behind Ben Jones’ record — and a Preakness win will tie R.W. Walden’s mark of seven in that race. “I never think about breaking a record or anything like that,” Baffert said in a national teleconference. “It hasn’t really sunk in that we won five Derbies because we focus on our last horse. We live for the moment. I’ve got a little Bill Belichick in me; it’s on to Baltimore.” Baffert, lead assistant Jimmy Barnes and the other humans around
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