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The legendary horse is gone, and with him the crowds that frequently visited the barn with no notice, searching for a glimpse at greatness. More than a year has gone by since American Pharoah left trainer Bob Bafferts stable for a stud career after a historic 2015 season of winning the Triple Crown and the Breeders Cup Classic.There has been no letdown for Baffert in 2016. Through Tuesday, Bafferts runners have earned $16.3 million, not far behind the $17.4 million earned in 2015. Arrogate, the winner of the Travers Stakes at Saratoga in August and the BC Classic at Santa Anita last month, has led a barn that could challenge the 2015 earnings figure in the coming weeks.After last year, and losing Pharoah, it was an exciting year, and youre wondering if youll get your hands on another superstar like that, Baffert said on a recent morning at Santa Anita. For two months, it was sad not having him around. Every day, there was excitement.Here comes Arrogate. He puts a pep back in everyones step.Arrogate will not race again this year; his next start is expected to be the $12 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 28. For the rest of this month, Baffert has runners in several leading stakes in Southern California, beginning with two $300,000 races for 2-year-olds at Los Alamitos on Saturday - the Starlet Stakes and the Los Alamitos CashCall Futurity.Mastery, the undefeated winner of the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar last month, will be favored in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity at 1-1/16 miles. Baffert is also planning to start Show Me Da Lute, the winner of a maiden race at 1-1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Oct. 29.In the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes at 1-1/16 miles, Baffert has the likely favorite in American Gal, who was third in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita on Nov. 5. Fact of Life, second in an allowance race at seven furlongs at Del Mar last month, is another candidate for the Starlet.Baffert has more candidates than those runners but said this week that he was content having two starters in each race.I only have two bridles down there, so I can only run two, he said in his typical wisecracking style. We keep a tight ship.The stable has a strong team of 2-year-olds, including two sharp winners in recent weeks -- Beach Bum, a maiden-race winner at Santa Anita on Nov. 6, and American Anthem, who won a maiden race at Del Mar last Saturday in his debut. American Anthem closed 3-1/2 lengths in the final furlong to win a six-furlong race by a neck over pacesetter Little Juanito.It never looked like he would catch that horse, Baffert said.There is much more to the stable than a Breeders Cup Classic winner and outstanding 2-year-olds.Vale Dori won the Grade 2 Bayakoa Stakes at Del Mar last Saturday and will start in the $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes for fillies and mares on dirt at Santa Anita on Feb. 11.Shes improving, Baffert said.The millionaire older horses Dortmund and Hoppertunity are in light training for 2017 campaigns. Hoppertunity is a long-term prospect for the $10 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates on March 25, a race in which he was third behind California Chrome this year.He moves way up in Dubai, he said.Drefong, the winner of the Breeders Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 5, is scheduled to run in the $300,000 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, along with the lightly raced Ten Blessings, the winner of an optional claimer at Santa Anita on Nov. 4.Those runners give Baffert strong groups in three of the categories in which his stable excels -- Triple Crown hopefuls, sprinters, and older horses racing on dirt. All of that without American Pharoah.Wholesale Hornets Jerseys . LOUIS -- Mike Smith is used to facing plenty of shots, so this was nothing new. Charlotte Hornets Shirts . Anthony Calvillo, through 20 CFL seasons, was frequently invincible and largely stoic in the heat of competition. 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Charlotte is in the midst of a stretch in which it plays five of six games at home -- and seemed to have found some flash from 7-2 center Roy Hibbert in a 97-87 victory over Dallas on Thursday.Hibbert hit 5-of-7 attempts for 11 points against the Mavericks with four rebounds and two blocks in 17 minutes. He missed five games at the start of the season for right knee soreness, but Hornets coach Steve Clifford called his performance against Dallas one of his top two outings of the season.Im not 100 percent yet, but Im getting there, Hibbert told reporters after the Dallas victory. Its come slower than I would have liked, but its a long season.While Hibbert continues to work out kinks, the Hornets have continued to rely most upon Kemba Walker. The point guard hit two 3-pointers in the final four minutes to help seal the triumph over the Mavericks.Walker leads Charlotte with 23.9 points per game, and his average of 24.4 points per game in November set a franchise record for that month.Forward Marvin Williams has missed the last four games with a hyperextended left knee, and is expected to be out until next week, Clifford said.The Tiimberwolves, meanwhile, are hoping to bounce back from back-to-back losses to the New York Knicks.dddddddddddd In all, Minnesota has lost its last four games, and seven of the last eight games. They dropped to 5-14 with Fridays loss.Zach LaVine led the Wolves with 23 points in their 118-114 loss to the Knicks. Karl-Anthony Towns added 20 points while Andrew Wiggins chipped in 19.The thing about them is they have so many talented scorers who can have big nights, Hornets center Cody Zeller said. We have to come out and play defense right from the start and not really let them get into a flow.Minnesota will be trying to snap its losing streak on the second night of a back-to-back. The Timberwolves are 2-1 in such games this season.A hopeful spot of late was Towns performance Wednesday in a 106-104 loss to the Knicks. The 7-foot center had 47 points and 18 rebounds in the loss, numbers that set historic marks.Since 1963-64, only three players have scored 47 points or more at a younger age than the 21-year-old Towns -- Brandon Jennings, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. He also joined Kevin Garnett and Kevin Love as the only other Wolves to have a game with at last 45 points and 15 rebounds.It was a monster game, Wolves coach Tom Thibodeau told reporters. Its unfortunate that we couldnt pull out the win. ' ' '