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| Mark Shuman |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 317 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 61-51-51 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $1,965,475 (79) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 19% (51%) |
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- Born: July 3, 1970, Akron, Ohio
- Residence: Fair Hill, Md.
- Family: Single
- Education: Graduated from Miami (Ohio) University in 1992 with a degree in exercise physiology
- Racing Background: Shuman is a second-generation horseman. His father is Ohio-based trainer Joe Shuman ... Worked for his father after graduating college in 1992, then moved to New York and worked as an assistant for Tom Skiffington, Howie Tesher and James Bond
- Racing Career: Started training in 2000 with a stable of six horses ... His career skyrocketed in Nov. 2001 when he was given 20 horses by owner Michael Gill ... Through his association with the free-spending Gill, who at one point owned more than 250 horses, Shuman became one of the nation’s leading trainers ... Shuman won 113 races in 2002, then garnered wide-spread notoriety during a record-breaking 2003 season ... Aside from racking up 225 wins, $5,633,150 in earnings and finishing fifth that year among the national leaders in wins, Shuman shattered the record for victories at Gulfstream Park with 87 during the 89-day meet. The old record was 39, set by Bill Mott in 1996. Shuman and Gill had at least one winner during the first 20 days of the meet ... “I really didn’t have much of a chance to enjoy that success at Gulfstream,” Shuman said. “I was working my butt off and we were so involved in claiming horses that the entire meet was a blur to me." ... He also was the leading trainer at Monmouth Park in 2003 ... Shuman won 158 races in 2004 and 138 in 2005 ... A controversial figure because of his claiming sprees at several tracks, Gill eventually decided to get out of racing in 2005. Ironically, he received the Eclipse Award as nation’s top owner that year ... Shuman won more than 500 races with Gill’s horses ... Shuman’s top horses for Gill included Forest Music, third in two New York grade 1 stakes, the Test and Prioress, in 2004; Umpateedle, winner of last year’s Gallant Bloom and Endine Handicap and voted the champion Florida-bred older filly and mare of 2005; and Native Heir, winner of the Deputy Minister in 2003 ... Shuman claimed Umpateedle for $32,000 and won more than $600,000 with her ... Shuman now has 40 horses stabled at Fair Hill in Maryland ... His primary owners are Joe Masone, Al Petrillo, Ken Ramsey, Golden Dome Stables and Domenico Zannino’s Circle Z Stable ... Shuman's 2007 stable featured the sprinter Talent Search, runner-up to Fabulous Strike in the Vosburgh ... “I thought he was going to get swallowed up in the Vosburgh, but dug in and held on for second,” Shuman said. Talent Search made a game run to be third in the Sprint at Monmouth ... Shuman also trains Xchanger, who won the Barbaro at Delaware Park and Federico Tesio in 2007 as well as the Sapling at Monmouth in 2006 ... In 2007, Shuman's barn won 72 races from 351 races and earned $2,560,058, to rank in the top 50 trainers by earnings.
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NOTE: Stats include North American and selected international races. Click here to view selected international race list.
Biographies on jockeys, trainers and owners are from the Breeders' Cup World Championships events from 2001 through 2009, and are intended as informational resources. Biographies will be updated if an individual is again a participant in the Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Biographies are available for most horses appearing in the top 100 money earnings list, and/or for those who are frequently making headlines in the news starting with the 2006 Triple Crown season.
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