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| Neil Howard |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 129 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 12-15-16 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $498,975 (463) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 9% (33%) |
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Biography and Highlights:
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- Born: Feb. 23, 1949, Riverdale, N.Y.
- Residence: Louisville, Ky.
- Family: wife Susan, whom he met at the racetrack when she was galloping horses for Hall of Fame trainer P.G. Johnson; grown children Ashleigh and son Jared
- Professional Background: Spent two years in the Navy after graduating from high school
- Racing Background: Involved with hunter/jumpers as a teen, Howard had his first exposure to racing in the late 1960s when he visited Waterford Park in West Virginia in search of show prospects … He gained his initial racetrack experience in 1969 working for trainer John Cotter, and later worked for such prominent horsemen as Joe Cantey and Hall of Famers Woody Stephens and Mack Miller … After seven years with Miller (leaving as stable foreman), Howard went out on his own in the spring of 1979 and saddled his first winner, Knock Knock Bird, to a $43.60 payoff at River Downs on May 27, 1979
- Racing Career: Represented by his first stakes winner on Nov. 8, 1980 when Hasty Tam triumphed in the Ohio Open Championship Handicap at Beulah Park. Has since won more than 160 stakes races … In 1984, Howard went to work as a private trainer for Will Farish's Lane's End Farm … Has developed many stakes winners for Lane's End, including Mineshaft, whose seven stakes victories in 2003 earned him Horse of the Year honors and the Eclipse Award as champion older male. Four of those victories were in grade 1 races: Pimlico Special, Suburban, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup ... First gained national attention in 1990 with Dogwood Stable's Summer Squall (co-bred and co-owned by Farish) won 13 of 20 starts, including the Preakness Stakes. Dogwood had purchased the colt from Lane’s End and had him broken by their trainer, but Dogwood’s managing partner, Cot Campbell, asked Farish if Howard could train the colt. Summer Squall retired with more than $1.8 million in earnings ... Other major stakes winners trained by Howard include 2000 Kentucky Oaks and Mother Goose winner Secret Status; Prospectors Delite (Ashland and the Acorn in 1992), Runup the Colors (Delaware Oaks and Alabama), Shadow Cast (2005 Personal Ensign), America Alive (2005 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic), Tomisue's Delight (Personal Ensign and Ruffian), Grand Jewel (Lexington and the Fayette), and multiple stakes winners Dove Hunt, Weekend Delight, Midway Road and Alumni Hall … In 2007 he trained Grasshopper, surprise second-place finisher to Street Sense in the Travers. He also trained Student Council, up until July when he was given to Vladimir Cerin to train in Southern California. The 5-year-old horse immediately rattled off two graded stakes wins (Pacific Classic and Hawthorne Gold Cup) for Cerin ... Howard has been the leading trainer at Churchill Downs twice (once was a tie) and at Keeneland once (in a tie) ... Has a string of 20 based year round at Keeneland Race Course with assistant Kevin Kahkola and another division of 25 at Fair Grounds in the winter and Churchill Downs the remainder of the year where his assistant is Joe DeSantis ... Tries to run a few miles every day to stay in shape but has only competed in only one race himself and estimates he was 800th of about 3,000 runners in that competition
Breeders' Cup Record| Starts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Earnings | | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $224,000 |
| 1984 | Juvenile Fillies | Weekend Delight | 6th | | 1991 | Classic | Summer Squall | 9th | | | Juvenile Fillies | Speed Dialer | 4th | | 1995 | Mile | Dove Hunt | 4th | | 1998 | Distaff | Tomisue's Delight | 4th |
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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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