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April was a productive month both in sales and on the racetrack. We were delighted to pick up three horses from the OBS April Sale: a Cairo Prince colt for Rainbow’s End Racing and Mike Lyden; a Pennsylvania-bred Classic Empire filly purchased from Top Line Sales for VinLaur Racing; and a Gun Runner colt for […]
As a trainer who gets sent a rather large percentage of turf horses each year, March is always an exciting month because we begin to see the plans for the upcoming New York turf season start to finalize. April will bring a number of our horses back to the track as well as some exciting […]
November through the first of April is the time of year where I split my time between New Orleans and New York. The New Orleans division is much smaller than the one in New York and is made up predominantly of younger horses and turf horses. The Fair Grounds presents an opportunity for some of […]
Closing out 2021, our strong season continued into December with Social Whirl running a very good second at Aqueduct in a second-level Allowance before going off on her winter break. I’m looking forward to her coming back a bigger, stronger 4-year-old and actually quite pleased that she didn’t lose her condition before her break as […]
As we prepare to celebrate Christmas and the New Year is upon us, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude. To my wonderful staff, thank you for all of the hard work you put into keeping our horses happy, healthy, and fit; your love for the horse and sport is something that shows […]
Before we get to November, there are a couple of October victories to touch on. Early in the month Villainous showed a lot of guts to come from a long way off the pace and win for Flying P Stable. He was claimed following the race and recently won for his new connections, so we […]
As everyone probably knows Belmont is my favourite track to run at in New York as it is home base for us and wonderful to be able to run horses out of their own stalls, not having to worry about a split division. But not even in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the […]
The second half of the Saratoga meet is always a little bit calmer than the first. The beginning of the meet there are a lot of members of the general public and enthusiastic owners that descend on the town, and it tends to get fairly social. With the two Fasig-Tipton sales going ahead this year […]
The Belmont meet was fantastic for the barn; we had a lot of horses run very well and had good momentum going into the Saratoga meet. This year we are following similar guidelines as we did last year by keeping the majority of our horses at Belmont — due to the fact that our staff […]
It was always in the diary for Maggie, the girls and I to go back to England to spend time with family. On arrival we were greeted by glorious English summer weather, but sadly it only lasted a couple of days before the heavens opened and Ascot was reduced to soft ground. The weather, however, […]