Career Achievements

• Won Eclipse Award as the nation’s outstanding trainer in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1994 after winning a record 70 stakes races in ’85, 64 in ’86 and 92 in ’87.

• Nation’s leading money-earning trainer every year from 1983-92, 1994, 1995 and 1996.

• Ranked first nationwide in purses won in 1996 with nearly $16,000,000.

• Conditioned Farma Way as the points leader and $750,000 bonus earner in the inaugural American Championship Racing Series in 1991.

• Shattered Charlie Whittingham’s earnings record in 1984 ($5.8 million), then nearly doubled the total in 1985 ($11.1 million).

• In 1987, became the first trainer to lead in both money ($17.5 million) and wins (343). He repeated the feat in 1990, topping all trainers with earnings of $14.5 million and 267 wins.

• Won 13 North American Grade I Stakes in 1990, 18 in ’89, 15 in ’88 and 22 in ’87.

• Has won ten classics – 1996 Kentucky Derby (Grindstone); 1996 Belmont (Editor’s Note); 1995 Kentucky Derby and Belmont (Thunder Gulch); 1995 Preakness (Timber Country); 1994 Preakness and Belmont (Tabasco Cat); 1988 Kentucky Derby (Winning Colors); 1985 Preakness (Tank’s Prospect); 1980 Preakness (Codex).

• Has won seven of the last nine classics – 1994 Preakness and Belmont, 1995 Triple Crown, and 1996 Kentucky Derby and Belmont.

• Became the first trainer in history to accrue more purse earnings than the nation’s leading jockey in 1986 ($12.3 million to Jose Santos’ $11.3 million).

• Has trained 21 champions, including Horse of the Year Criminal Type and Lady’s Secret.

• First to saddle two fillies in the same Kentucky Derby (1984 – Althea and Life’s Magic).

• Trained 21 world champion quarterhorses, including two-time Horse of the Year, Dash For Cash.

• Won all six major California quarterhorse stakes of $100,000 or more each year for three straight years (1975, ’76 and ’77).