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| John Salzman |
Stats Updated Through: 5/30/2006
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- Born: July 11, 1945, in Prince George's County, Md.
- Resident: Sykesville, Md.
- Family: wife Nancy, two sons, John Jr. and Tim
- Salzman worked as a hot walker at Laurel when he was 11 for his brother-in-law Robert W. (Tex) Anderson. "I was just a kid, but I really got into it," Salzman said. He eventually became a groom and exercise rider and ponied horses for a year. He also rubbed horses for trainer Jim Simpson
- Met his wife when he was 17 and she was 16 and brought her into the business
- Took out his trainer's license in 1969
- First winner was Gregorian at Dover Downs in 1969. He was rubbing horses for Anderson when one of his clients decided he wasn't happy owning horses and offered to sell Salzman half-interest in his horse for $700. That horse, Maggie Wag, wound up winning several races for Salzman, who was on his way as a trainer
- He then bought a few horses of his own and picked up one or two clients. After claiming a horse for $3,000 for one of his clients and winning approximately $60,000 with him, Salzman went to Hialeah and bought the client a horse named Noble Home, who went on to finish second in the 1983 Jim Beam Spiral Stakes. Salzman ran him in the Blue Grass Stakes, but the colt, who had bad feet, lost two shoes in the race, ending Salzman's dream of taking him to the Kentucky Derby
- Salzman eventually trained for Guy Snowden and several other clients. During that time, he wanted to give his son John Jr. a chance to break into training, so he ran all the horses in his son's name, which accounts for some apparent lean years on Salzman Sr.'s record. "We had some nice horses during that time, like Morvan (ARG) and Teekay," he said
- In 1988, Salzman saddled his first Breeders' Cup starter, Leading Prospect, who finished seventh in the Juvenile
- Salzman gained national attention last year when a filly he bought for $5,000 captured the attention of the racing world with her speed and courage. Her name was Xtra Heat. "We wanted to buy a couple of cheap horses that looked like they had speed that we could run early and turn over for a few dollars, win some races quick and sell them. That's what we had gone to the sale to look for, and she fit that bill." Xtra Heat made her debut as a $25,000 claimer and won the maiden race by a neck, finishing five furlongs in an impressive :59 3/5. She went on to win 16 of her next 19 starts. She missed only one check over that period, in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. She finished second in the Breeders' Cup Sprint in 2001 and was later named Champion three-year-old filly
- This year, Salzman has guided Xtra Heat to seven wins, one second and one third in nine starts and earnings of $949,155.
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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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