• Has been prominent on the New York and Gulfstream Triple Crown trail for more than a decade with a major emergence coming in 2004 when Read the Footnotes captured the 2004 Fountain of Youth Stakes and finished fourth in the Florida Derby before a seventh in the Kentucky Derby ... 
• That followed 2003 campaign in which Read the Footnotes was named top New-York bred juvenile, winning the Remsen and Nashua Stakes ...
• Also saddled Swingforthefences to a placing in that winter’s Tampa Bay Derby ...
• Citadeed won the 1995 Peter Pan in his first start under Violette’s care, following a seventh-place finish in the Kentucky Derby that year Other recent stars include 2007 Old Hat Stakes and Grade 1-winner Dream Rush, Summer Doldrums (his lone stakes winner in 2008) and High Finance, who placed in three races at Gulfstream in 2006 and top sprinter in 2007 ...
• Violette made a major impact in ... Upset two-time Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Lure in the 1994 Kelso Handicap with Nijinsky’s Gold ...
• Trained and co-owned Man From Wicklow, whose biggest career win came in the 2003 Gulfstream Park Turf Stakes. Also campaigned Yolanda B. Too, a multiple graded-stakes-placed filly plus other stakes winners Coosaragga, Upon My Soul, Marquette, Free of Love, Neverlacken, March Magic and Savedbythelight

Other: 1971 graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell with a bachelor’s degree in political science ...Start in racing came with hunters and jumpers in native Massachusetts ...

Worked in backstretch at Suffolk and Woodbine before moving to New York in 1980 to become assistant to David Whiteley ... Went on his own in 1983 ... Active in industry affairs in New York where he serves as a Director of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Associates and the Chairman of the New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund ... In 2002 helped start the Groom Education Program to teach backstretch workers grooming techniques and English in New York.