Post by Lawyer_Ron on Sept 23, 2007 21:16:47 GMT -5
name: Rob Meyers
age: 35
gender: male
job: owner, retired airplane builder
personality: loves his horses and hangs out at the track all the time.
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name: Bob Baffert
age: 54
website: www.bobbaffert.com
Grew up on an Arizona cattle and chicken farm near the Mexican border and got started in the horse business grooming and galloping Quarter Horses owned by his father ... Baffert first tasted success as a Quarter Horse trainer and conditioned 1986 world champion Gold Coast Express ... Made transition to Thoroughbreds during the late 1980s, in large part due to the encouragement of owner Mike Pegram, and gave up his Quarter Horse division in 1991 after recording a stakes triple in the California Cup during the Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita
Has won three Breeders' Cup races from 44 starters, the 1992 Sprint with Thirty Slews, the 1998 Juvenile Fillies with Silverbulletday and the 2002 Juvenile with Vindication … Won two legs of the Triple Crown four times: with Silver Charm in the 1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Real Quiet in the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Point Given in the 2001 Preakness and Belmont, and War Emblem in the 2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness ...Won three straight Eclipse Awards from 1977-99 and led continent's trainers in earnings four straight years from 1998-2001 ... Through 2005 ranked fifth among North American trainers all-time with career earnings in excess of $112.3 million ... Has trained seven Eclipse champions—Chilukki, Point Given, Real Quiet, Silverbulletday, Silver Charm, Vindication and War Emblem, who collectively accounted for nine titles ... Won the Dubai World Cup twice: in 1998 with Silver Charm and in 2001 with Captain Steve … Major clients trained for include Mike Pegram, Hal Earnhardt, Aaron and Marie Jones, Satish Sanan of Padua Stables, Robert and Janice McNair's Stonerside Stable, Ed Friendly, Golden Eagle Farm, Jim McIngvale, Bob and Beverly Lewis and Ahmed Zayat's Zayat Stable, for which he trains 13 2-year-olds this year … Biggest victories in 2006 came in two $750,000 races, the Wood Memorial with Bob and John and the Blue Grass Stakes with Sinister Minister. Other grade 1 wins this year have been provided by Behaving Badly (Santa Monica), girl thingycat Doll (Humana Distaff Handicap) and Point Ashley (Del Mar Debutante). Other 2006 graded stakes winners are Wanna Runner, Too Much Bling, Point Determined, Preachinatthebar and E Z Warrior ... When Behaving Badly won the Rancho Bernardo at Del Mar, it was Baffert's 75th stakes victory at the seaside track, enabling him to pass Charlie Whittingham's previous record of 74 career stakes wins
name: Michael Matz
age: 57
Before he embarked on a career as a trainer, Matz was a highly accomplished equestrian rider. He competed in the Olympic Games three times, and in 1996 won a silver medal in the team competition and carried the U.S. flag during the closing ceremonies at the Atlanta Games. A two-time winner of the American Grandprix Association’s Rider of the Year (1981 and 1984), he earned five gold medals in show jumping at the Pan American Games . . . Though the tag “hero” is loosely tossed about in sports, Matz displayed exemplary courage and character in 1989 when he rescued a family’s three children from a fiery plane crash. Matz and Dorothy, who was his fiancée at the time, were among the 296 passengers and crew members on the ill-fated flight in which 111 people were killed during an emergency landing. After saving the three children, Matz heroically went back to the burning wreckage to search for Dorothy and assisted another passenger in pulling an 11-month-old girl from plane. The two brothers and a sister Matz saved joined him at the 2006 Kentucky Derby as guests of Churchill Downs
Matz started training in 1998 with a three-horse stable; he recorded his first grade 1 victories with Kicken Kris, who captured the 2003 Secretariat Stakes and the 2004 Arlington Million (via disqualification) ... Though relatively unknown outside the Mid-Atlantic region, Matz stepped into the national spotlight this spring through riding an emotional roller coaster with Lael Stables’ Barbaro. Under Matz’s patient care, Barbaro won the Kentucky Derby off five weeks of rest. Sent off as an odds-on favorite in the Preakness, Barbaro’s career came to a heartbreaking end shortly after the start of the race when he suffered a life-threatening leg injury. “Two weeks ago we were on such a high and this is our worst nightmare,” Matz said hours after the Preakness as Barbaro battled for his life at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa. Barbaro, who fractured his right hind leg in three places, underwent six hours of surgery. “Barbaro presented a case that was about as difficult as such an operation could be,” said orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dean Richardson. The 3-year-old colt received a huge outpouring of support from fans across the country during his lengthy recovery from surgery, highlighted by about 20,000 people at the Belmont Stakes signing a 62-foot-wide, 7-foot-high get well card. A severe case of laminitis then developed in his other hind leg, but he continues to recover from both problems ... Barbaro, undefeated before the Preakness, also won the Florida Derby, Holy Bull, Tropical Park Derby and Laurel Futurity for Matz ... Other stakes winners trained by Matz include Aunt Henny, who won the Herecomesthebride Stakes this year, Political Attack, Round Pond and Bowman’s Band ... When Round Pond took the 2006 Distaff, it gave Matz his first Breeders' Cup winner from his only starter ... Through Oct. 8, his stable had won 36 of 194 races and earned $3,557,428 to rank 16th nationally.
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[/img]age: 35
gender: male
job: owner, retired airplane builder
personality: loves his horses and hangs out at the track all the time.
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name: Bob Baffert
age: 54
website: www.bobbaffert.com
Grew up on an Arizona cattle and chicken farm near the Mexican border and got started in the horse business grooming and galloping Quarter Horses owned by his father ... Baffert first tasted success as a Quarter Horse trainer and conditioned 1986 world champion Gold Coast Express ... Made transition to Thoroughbreds during the late 1980s, in large part due to the encouragement of owner Mike Pegram, and gave up his Quarter Horse division in 1991 after recording a stakes triple in the California Cup during the Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita
Has won three Breeders' Cup races from 44 starters, the 1992 Sprint with Thirty Slews, the 1998 Juvenile Fillies with Silverbulletday and the 2002 Juvenile with Vindication … Won two legs of the Triple Crown four times: with Silver Charm in the 1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Real Quiet in the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Point Given in the 2001 Preakness and Belmont, and War Emblem in the 2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness ...Won three straight Eclipse Awards from 1977-99 and led continent's trainers in earnings four straight years from 1998-2001 ... Through 2005 ranked fifth among North American trainers all-time with career earnings in excess of $112.3 million ... Has trained seven Eclipse champions—Chilukki, Point Given, Real Quiet, Silverbulletday, Silver Charm, Vindication and War Emblem, who collectively accounted for nine titles ... Won the Dubai World Cup twice: in 1998 with Silver Charm and in 2001 with Captain Steve … Major clients trained for include Mike Pegram, Hal Earnhardt, Aaron and Marie Jones, Satish Sanan of Padua Stables, Robert and Janice McNair's Stonerside Stable, Ed Friendly, Golden Eagle Farm, Jim McIngvale, Bob and Beverly Lewis and Ahmed Zayat's Zayat Stable, for which he trains 13 2-year-olds this year … Biggest victories in 2006 came in two $750,000 races, the Wood Memorial with Bob and John and the Blue Grass Stakes with Sinister Minister. Other grade 1 wins this year have been provided by Behaving Badly (Santa Monica), girl thingycat Doll (Humana Distaff Handicap) and Point Ashley (Del Mar Debutante). Other 2006 graded stakes winners are Wanna Runner, Too Much Bling, Point Determined, Preachinatthebar and E Z Warrior ... When Behaving Badly won the Rancho Bernardo at Del Mar, it was Baffert's 75th stakes victory at the seaside track, enabling him to pass Charlie Whittingham's previous record of 74 career stakes wins
name: Michael Matz
age: 57
Before he embarked on a career as a trainer, Matz was a highly accomplished equestrian rider. He competed in the Olympic Games three times, and in 1996 won a silver medal in the team competition and carried the U.S. flag during the closing ceremonies at the Atlanta Games. A two-time winner of the American Grandprix Association’s Rider of the Year (1981 and 1984), he earned five gold medals in show jumping at the Pan American Games . . . Though the tag “hero” is loosely tossed about in sports, Matz displayed exemplary courage and character in 1989 when he rescued a family’s three children from a fiery plane crash. Matz and Dorothy, who was his fiancée at the time, were among the 296 passengers and crew members on the ill-fated flight in which 111 people were killed during an emergency landing. After saving the three children, Matz heroically went back to the burning wreckage to search for Dorothy and assisted another passenger in pulling an 11-month-old girl from plane. The two brothers and a sister Matz saved joined him at the 2006 Kentucky Derby as guests of Churchill Downs
Matz started training in 1998 with a three-horse stable; he recorded his first grade 1 victories with Kicken Kris, who captured the 2003 Secretariat Stakes and the 2004 Arlington Million (via disqualification) ... Though relatively unknown outside the Mid-Atlantic region, Matz stepped into the national spotlight this spring through riding an emotional roller coaster with Lael Stables’ Barbaro. Under Matz’s patient care, Barbaro won the Kentucky Derby off five weeks of rest. Sent off as an odds-on favorite in the Preakness, Barbaro’s career came to a heartbreaking end shortly after the start of the race when he suffered a life-threatening leg injury. “Two weeks ago we were on such a high and this is our worst nightmare,” Matz said hours after the Preakness as Barbaro battled for his life at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa. Barbaro, who fractured his right hind leg in three places, underwent six hours of surgery. “Barbaro presented a case that was about as difficult as such an operation could be,” said orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dean Richardson. The 3-year-old colt received a huge outpouring of support from fans across the country during his lengthy recovery from surgery, highlighted by about 20,000 people at the Belmont Stakes signing a 62-foot-wide, 7-foot-high get well card. A severe case of laminitis then developed in his other hind leg, but he continues to recover from both problems ... Barbaro, undefeated before the Preakness, also won the Florida Derby, Holy Bull, Tropical Park Derby and Laurel Futurity for Matz ... Other stakes winners trained by Matz include Aunt Henny, who won the Herecomesthebride Stakes this year, Political Attack, Round Pond and Bowman’s Band ... When Round Pond took the 2006 Distaff, it gave Matz his first Breeders' Cup winner from his only starter ... Through Oct. 8, his stable had won 36 of 194 races and earned $3,557,428 to rank 16th nationally.
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name: Jeffery Burningham
age: 26
gender: male
job: jockey
personality: normally calm, loves riding in races, and loves horses
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