1,334 - 235, 202, 182
$17,946,005
132 - 20, 17, 17
$2,362,909
Classic Empire: Top 2-Year-Old Male (2016)
Tepin: Top Turf Female (2015-16)
* Trained two Eclipse Award winners in 2016: Tepin (Top Turf Female) and Classic Empire (Top Turf Male)
* Inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2016
* Won eight Sovereign Awards as Canada’s top trainer (2006-08, 2011-15)
* Trained 16 Sovereign Award winners, including four Horses of the Year in Canada: Catch a Glimpse (2015), Lexie Lou (2014), Uncaptured (2012), Sealy Hill (2007)
* Sent champion Tepin to an eight-race win streak in 2015-16, including victories against males in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Mile and 2016 Grade 1 Woodbine Mile and becoming the first U.S.-based horse to win the Group 1 Queen Anne at Royal Ascot in 2016
* Trained three-time Sovereign Award winner Catch a Glimpse to eight straight victories in 2015-2016, including the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and Grade 1 Belmont Oaks
* Recorded a personal-best year in 2016 with 235 winners from 1,334 starters, including 26 graded stakes wins, and $17.95 million in earnings to rank #3 among trainers nationally
* Saddled his 2000th winner, Reimburse, on May 14, 2016 at Gulfstream
* Son Norman serves as his head assistant
* Assisted at Belmont Park by Randi Melton
* His late father, Norman, served as chairman of the board of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales before his 2006 retirement
* Brother Justin works as a bloodstock agent and brother John is in equine insurance
* Father bought and sold horses on a small Indiana farm before relocating the family to Ocala to found Cardinal Hill Stable
* Decided on a career in horse racing at age 12, after traveling with his father to see Secretariat win the 1973 Kentucky Derby
* Took out his trainer’s license at age 17 in Massachusetts
* Joe’s Coming, April 14, 1979, Keeneland (first starter)
Added Edge: Nashua (2002)
Catch a Glimpse: Belmont Oaks Inv. (2016); Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (2015)
Classic Empire: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (2016); Breeders’ Futurity (2016)
Conquest Enforcer: Allied Forces (2016)
Dark Ending: Selene (2001)
Dynamic Sky: Red Smith H. (2014)
Exciting Story: Metropolitan H. (2001)
Holding Gold: Quick Call (2016)
My Conquestadory: Alcibiades (2013)
Noble Bird: Stephen Foster H. (2015)
Pool Play: Stephen Foster H. (2011)
Precise End: Bay Shore (2000)
Pretty City Dancer: Spinaway-DH (2016)
Pretty Sham: Barn Swallow (1986)
Raja’s Shark: Jamaica H. (1984)
Sky Flight: Artie Schiller (2016)
Spring in the Air: Alcibiades (2012)
Theogony: Rags to Riches (2016)
Tepin: Woodbine Mile (2016); Jenny Wiley (2016); Breeders’ Cup Mile (2015); Just a Game (2015); First Lady (2015)
Victory to Victory: Natalma (2016)
World Approval: United Nations (2016); Saranac (2015)
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