2007 Gulfstream Record

• Regularly in the headlines in 2007 with stakes stars Dream Rush, Summer Doldrums and High Finance ... Dream Rush proved to be one of the quickest fillies last year going from a victory in the Old Hat Stakes at Gulfstream to a pair of Grade 1 victories in the Prioress and Test Stakes. She set a torrid pace and faded to  fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint ... Summer Doldrums won stakes on both dirt and turf last year, while High Finance, who placed in three races at Gulfstream in 2006 emerged as a sprinter with a victory in the Tom Fool at Belmont last June.
• Violette made a major impact in 2004 Triple Crown preps at Gulfstream with Read the Footnotes, who 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.
• 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

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• 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.