Big shoes to fill in Barn 83. With the passing of the great D. Wayne Lukas, the air feels heavier, the history deeper.
This morning, two sentimental souls—Nymue (Zenyatta ’23) and Dr. Agne (Lady Eli ’23)—stepped into the stalls where legends once stood.
May they carry the
After all of my years at Belmont Park as an AT I finally broke our maiden as a trainer! It was worth the wait for that performance by Northern Invader. He is a cool dude making quick friends with Reagan. After all she is the good luck of the team
What a wonderful finish to Vahva’s career. Second in the @BreedersCup F&M Sprint is an exclamation point to a fun 3 years of training her. She will always be a special one to me as one of the first “big” horses.
Your @BreedersCup mile Champ. He was so unhappy that peppermints had to wait until I got to the office. Thank you to all that sent texts, messages, calls. Going to try to let this soak in so maybe a minute to get back to everyone
My heart is shattered in a million pieces, my main man Chuck has passed. He is the reason I have the life I have. He was not going to sit around and watch my early 20 something self ruin my life. He gave me focus, direction and he really believed in me. I find it so appropriate
One of my favorite days as a trainer. Getting a call from a breeder to claim one to retire. In her words he’d done enough and deserves to have a better life off the track.
Is this real life?!?! So proud of our entire team going 3-3 on Black-Eyed Susan Day. Congrats to our owners, great job by our jockeys and extraordinary team
Work from all of our staff. Now if I could stop David from referring to himself as David DeVaux
