Gary Contessa - the hard-working New York trainer at the top of his profession
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K.T. Donovan (05 February 2010 - Issue Number: 15)
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JJ Crupi - from conditioner to consignor
/It was a seamless transition for J.J. Crupi as he successfully made the change from conditioning horses at the racetrack to being one of North America's leading two-year-old consignors. Crupi owns the 150-acre Crupi’s New Castle Farm in Ocala, Florida with his son Robert.
Ben Baugh
(20 January 2009 - Issue Number: 11)
Mark Bradstock - a "hands-on" jumps trainer
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Completely cleared of giving his stable star King Harald a prohibited substance when the horse failed a dope test after winning at the Cheltenham Festival in 2005, Mark Bradstock is philosophical about his lot It was once said of Linford Christie that he achieved perfect balance over 100 metres on account of having an equally large chip on each shoulder.
Sean Magee (European Trainer - issue 28 - Winter 2009)
The Other Half - what life is like being married to a trainer
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Ken Snyder (14 October 2009 - Issue Number: 14)
Reade Baker - Sovereign Award-winning racehorse trainer
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Frances J Karon (16 July 2009 - Issue Number: 13)
NICK ZITO - the racehorse trainer speaks about the game that will humble kings
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Butch Lehr - Churchill Downs's track superintendent
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Jonathan Sheppard - an interview with the champion trainer
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Jonathan Sheppard could be on the cusp of history. The 68-year-old trainer navigated a stellar season with Augustin Stable’s Forever Together. In March, the 4-year-old filly refused to train. By November, she had won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf and a possible Eclipse Award as the leading turf filly or mare. With her Eclipse Award, Sheppard would join fellow Hall of Famer Sidney Watters Jr. as the only men to train a champion over jumps and on the flat.
Sean Clancy (20 January 2009 - Issue Number: 11)
Evening Attire - a firm favourite with fans
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An old-school trainer’s old gray gelding became a rock star at the age of 10 before retiring last fall. Last summer his final race, a dazzling, 8 1/4;-length track-record victory in the $250,000 mile-and-a-half Greenwood Cup at Philadelphia Park July 19th, was featured on YouTube.
Bill Heller (20 January 2009 - Issue Number: 11)
Adrian Maguire: the ‘hands-on’ horseman
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A brilliant and brave jockey, who had his fair share of misfortune with injuries – a broken neck forced him to retire from race riding – Adrian Maguire is now forging a successful career as a trainer and while laid back in personality, he has plenty to say about the state of racing in his home country.
Lissa Oliver (European Trainer - issue 24 - Winter 2008)
Amanda Perrett - following in her father's footsteps
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Guy Harwood trained Dancing Brave, one of the all-time great racehorses. Ten years after the horse’s dramatic Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe victory Harwood handed over the reins of his Coombelands Stables to the eldest of his three daughters. What Amanda Perrett inherited in 1996 was not just a prestigious operation; it was one of the most innovative and best-equipped training establishments that Europe had ever seen.
Sean Magee (European Trainer - issue 24 - Winter 2008)
Better Talk Now - the multi-millionaire BC winner
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It's hard to imagine that Better Talk Now, Graham Motion’s remarkable, late-running nine-year-old gelding, would ever cost his trainer a good nights sleep. After all, Better Talk Now's victory in the 2004 Breeders Cup Turf gave Motion a national presence, one which has only grown as Better Talk Now continues to perform at the highest level of racing with 14 victories in 47 career starts and earnings of more than $4.2 million.
Bill Heller (14 October 2008 - Issue Number: 10)
Peter Schiergen - we profile the leading German racehorse trainer
/The number of champion jockeys who went on to become champion trainers afterwards can be counted on the fingers of one hand. In German racing history, only the great Hein Bollow scaled the heights in both professions, winning more than 1,000 races both as trainer and jockey. However, he will shortly be joined by Peter Schiergen, who was German champion jockey for five successive years in the 1990s, setting a European record of 273 winners in his best season of 1995, and retiring at the end of 1997 with 1451 winners to his credit.
David Conolly-Smith (European Trainer - issue 23 - Autumn 2008)
At home with Tom Busteed in his "nursery" for young racehorses
/When I visited Audra and Tom Busteed in Cork freak gales were ravaging the coastline. Tranquil was hardly the best word to use; yet down at the bottom of the steep four furlong woodchip gallop, set within a wooded glen, was a peaceful stream in which many a Cheltenham hero had paddled as it carried its first ever rider. Slow, calm, meandering; oblivious to the storm of the outside world. This is indeed the tranquil nursery of Tom Busteed, the master tutor of the horse.
Lissa Oliver (European Trainer - issue 22 - Summer 2008)
Read MoreSir Mark Prescott - a racehorse trainer completely comfortable in his own skin
/Love him or hate him - odds are against indifference - trainer Sir Mark Prescott needs little introduction. The unapologetic Prescott isn't bothered whichever the sentiment, as he is very much his own man and comfortable - some might say all too much so - in his own skin.
Frances Karon (European Trainer - issue 22 - Summer 2008)
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