Birth Date: Saturday, January 6, 1951
Birth Place: Lexington, Ky.

Career: Hungry Island and Boisterous, who began their year at Gulfstream, went on to graded victories. Hungry Island took the Lake Placid (G2) while Boisterous was victorious in the Red Smith (G2) and Knickerbocker. McGaughey saddled Air Support to victories in the Virginia Derby (G2) and Transylvania (G3). Semi-private trainer for the Phipps family was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004 in his first year of eligibility ... He has trained nine champions, including Smuggler, who won the 2005 3-year-old filly Eclipse Award, and the 2002 2-year-old filly Storm Flag Flying, who ended the year with a win in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Most recent superstar female was two-time Grade 1-winning filly Pine Island ...UpsetHorse of the Year Rachel Alexandra with Persistently in 2010 Personal Ensign...  McGaughey trained undefeated champion Personal Ensign, who was named top older filly or mare of 1988 after gamely winning that year’s Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic in her 13th and final start over Kentucky Derby winner Winning Colors. She became the first major horse to retire undefeated since just after the turn of the century. My Flag, a daughter of Personal Ensign and dam of Storm Flag Flying, is the middle component to McGaughey’s remarkable trifecta of training three consecutive female generations of the same family to Breeders’ Cup wins ...  He also sent out Pleasant Home to a record-setting winning margin in the 2005 Ladies’ Classic and finished fourth in that race in 2008 with Spinster winner Carriage Trail ... Developed Dancing Forever into a top turf horse last year, starting with a runner-up finish in the Gulfstream Park Turf before going on to win the Manhattan and finish third in the Breeders’ Cup Turf – the best finish by a U.S.-based horse in that race ... Overall McGaughey has nine Breeders’ Cup wins, including two at Gulfstream in 1989: Dancing Spree (Sprint) and Rhythm (Juvenile) ... Lure captured consecutive runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Mile in 1992 (at Gulfstream) and 1993. His lone Triple Crown race victory came when Easy Goer denied rival Sunday Silence in the 1989 Belmont Stakes ...  McGaughey won the 1998 Eclipse Award as outstanding trainer. Top runners have included Coronado’s Quest, Seeking the Gold, Educated Risk, Inside Information, Vanlandingham and Jackpot who captured the 2004 Gulfstream Park Handicap.  Other: Grew up in Lexington Ky., the son of a real estate agent. Introduced to racing through family, but attended the University of Mississippi for two years before leaving for job as groom for trainer David Carr. Advanced to become Carr’s assistant, then worked as a groom for Frank Whiteley before assisting Whiteley’s son David ... Took out his trainer’s license in 1979 and opened public stable the following year ... First high-profile job came as trainer for John Ed Anthony’s Loblolly Stable in 1982 ... First Grade 1 victory came in 1983 Spinster Stakes with Try Something New. Named trainer for Phipps family on Nov. 11, 1985.