Young Trainers Starting Out - Abigail Adsit, Michael Wilson, Scott Young, Liam Benson

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Rick Hammerle - from racing fan to racing secretary

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Keith Desormeaux - Trainer of the 141st Preakness Stakes winner - Exaggerator

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Maryland legend, King T. Leatherbury in profile

Maryland legend, King T. Leatherbury in profile

The man in the blue jacket takes a sip from his drink, a Black-Eyed Susan. “Say,” he says, “there’s supposed to be booze in here! You don’t see anybody with one of those little flasks in their hip pocket, do you?”

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Barry Abrams - overcoming adversity

Barry Abrams - overcoming adversity

An old man goes to a doctor. “What’s the problem?” the doctor says. “I can’t pee,” the old man says. “How old are you?” the doctor says. “Eighty-four,” the old man says.

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Carlos Arias - the whip maker

Carlos Arias - the whip maker

 One of Webster’s many descriptions of the word “whip” reads: “An instrument, either a flexible rod or a flexible thong or lash attached to a handle, used for driving animals or administering corporal punishment.”

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Rick Violette leading NY based trainer - in profile

Rick Violette leading NY based trainer - in profile

 Rick Violette Jr. thought about becoming a lawyer or entering politics when he was a student at Lowell University in his native Massachusetts. When he wasn't studying or attending class, he showed hunters and jumpers for a client who also owned racehorses. That was how his romance with the racetrack began.

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Meet leading trainer Mark Casse

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Wesley Ward Trainer Profile

Wesley Ward Trainer Profile

    Trainer Wesley Ward didn’t invent “thinking outside the box,” but he sure is living it—joyfully and successfully: racing fillies vs. colts in graded stakes, running an America-maiden claiming winner in a stakes race at Ascot, giving a 10-pound apprentice his first mount at prestigious Saratoga, and skipping the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita to watch his son in a cross country meet a couple thousand miles away in Florida.

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Jimmy 'The Hat' Allard

Jimmy 'The Hat' Allard

A self-proclaimed “professional horse player,” Allard is at once dogmatic, enigmatic, pragmatic, and, when it comes to playing the Pick 6, pretty much automatic. Even though he turns 61 on April 26, 2015, pose any question, and Allard’s curious and expansive mind zeroes in on total and accurate recall. Like Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek behind the podium, he’s got all the right answers before the buzzer sounds.

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David Bernstein: rising above adversity

David Bernstein: rising above adversity

David Bernstein has suffered two tragedies: one a game changer, the other a life changer.

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Craig Lewis

Craig Lewis

Craig Anthony Lewis is a racetrack lifer. And at 67, if genealogy and longevity mean anything, he still has a long way to go as a trainer. His father, Seymour, is 92. His mother, Norma, is 90. They still live together in Seal Beach, California.

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Sean McCarthy comes out form under the radar

Sean McCarthy comes out form under the radar

Sean McCarthy is a rarity among trainers. He speaks in complete sentences. Here’s what he said in a post-race interview after the biggest win of his career, Majestic Harbor’s 6 1/4-length upset at 14-1 in the Grade I Gold Cup at Santa Anita on June 28...

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Christophe Clement - The Belmont Stakes winning trainer profile

Christophe Clement - The Belmont Stakes winning trainer profile

Frances Karon visits Christophe Clement and learns all about the foundations he developed in racing from such a young age starting from his french roots to his arrival in America. The successful trainer of Tonalist talks about his life on both sides of the pond and how he ended up at Belmont Park

 

 

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Ron McAnally - Still pumping out Gr1 winners

Described as the poster boy for the geriatric set and like a fine wine we meet Ron McAnally, the trainer that will never give up. Ron McAnally has just celebrated his 82yrs old and still churning out Gr 1 winners and here we find out about how it all began in 1948 working as a groom, lifelong long friends and owners.

 

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Mike Maker - the leading Kentucky based trainer in profile

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CTT Trainer Profile - Richard Baltas

The trainer who turned Big Macher into a stakes performer!

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Darin Lamoureux - horseman with focus on long-term success

Lamoureux is anything but a one-hit wonder and since Super Saver, a yearling he broke and trained, won the 2010 Kentucky Derby, he has delivered winners with unfailing regularity.

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Dickie Small - Celebrating the life of a legend

The consummate horseman and larger than life trainer of Breeders' Cup Classic winner Concern died April 4th at his home in Monkton, Md. His life-long friend, Ted Mudge, offers a very personal obituary.

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Relative Values - Edward & Eoin Harty

With 5 generations of horsemen behind them, it was inescapable that the Harty brothers' lives would also revolve around racing. Edward trains in Ireland close to his father, Grand National winning jockey Eddie Harty; Eoin is in the US. But their shared passion keeps their familial bond strong.

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