M Baze Dead
 

What a shame! Wonder what the story is behind this! 24 is just too young an age to depart. Prayers go out to his family and loved ones!

I hope they have answers for the family soon.

Thats terrible news!! What a great young rider he was and he was only 24. Thoughts go to the family.

Very sad! I can't get over this. Only 24 years old. My prayers and thoughts go out to his family and friends. This is awful.

Very sorry to hear this. Prayers for his family.

Very sad and very strange. He had been doing so well over the past couple years, I hope there's not criminal activity involved...

I know when he rode in California, he battled a drug problem. This is so sad.

Sad.

He really looked like the next big thing back in 2007 in So Cal.
I wondered why he lost the mount on Nehro after the LA Derby.

very sad, i know he was no longer with his wife, to sad for words..........

Oh how sad......
 

It hasn't been all that long, that he was riding first call for Wayne Catalano I think? Wow, very sad news condolences to the entire Baze family. :(
Very talented rider, gone way too soon.

No foul play suspected.

Tragic. Very sad.

I read a few of the non-racing media articles about this. More than one identifies Baze as "having just ridden Nehro to a 2nd place finish in the Kentucky Derby." In fact, one article make this mistake, and then one paragraph later states he hadn't ridden in a race since April. I mean, is it really THAT hard to get simple facts correct?

Of course, the non-racing media also still refers to any son of Dynaformer as "Barbaro's half-brother."

Very very sad news. The kid had his whole life ahead of him, it's a damn shame. Condolences and sympathies go out to his family.

Just did a tribute at Arlington and not a dry eye in place....was a good kid

Wish someone who had seen him not moving in the car had bothered to wander over to the car to check it out in the morning, rather than the afternoon. That really bothers me.

I agree with Riot. Said many saw him in his truck in the morning and they found him after 4pm....what the hell is that?

I worried he overdosed intentionally with the intent to be discovered by parking on the backstretch - but wasn't as nobody could be bothered to walk over to the car.

If it was unintentional, or if there was a sudden medical problem, perhaps his life could have been saved if he wasn't left unconcious in 80-degree heat all day in a car, even though people noticed him there in the morning.

A tragedy. My condolences.

This is some tough news today. I talked to this kid more than a half dozen times over beers last summer at Jimmy D's, across the street from Arlington Park.

Yet another reminder that every day is a gift and as Warren Zevon said, "Enjoy every sandwich."