Birth Date: May 22, 1964
Birth Place: Cambridge, England

2011 SEASON: won 14 races in the state, including two on the Preakness day undercard…Animal Kingdom won the Kentucky Derby (Grade 1), finished second in the Preakness Stakes (Grade 1) and earned Eclipse Award honors for top 3-year-old male…ranked 26th in North America with 116 victories for a career high $8.8 million, which ranked fifth.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: finished in the top 10 among Maryland conditioners seven straight years from 1995-2001…Better Talk Now won a pair of Grade I races in 2004 (Sword Dancer and Breeders’ Cup Turf) and 2005 (United Nations and Man O’ War) and won the 2006 Grade II Dixie Handicap on the Preakness undercard…Bay Eagle ran eighth in the 2001 Preakness, while Equality competed in the 2002 running of the middle jewel…won 2008 Tesio Stakes with Icabad Crane, who finished third in the Preakness three weeks later…Adriano finished 19th in the 2008 Kentucky Derby…saddled Chilito to off the board finishes in both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes in 1998…trained Your Out to the 2000 Maryland two-year old filly of the year honors…the horse won three stakes races including the Maryland Million Lassie…won a pair of races on Maryland Million Day in 1998…captured his seventh Maryland Million victory when Miss Lombardi won the 2008 Ladies…captured the Grade II Dixie with Dr. Brendler in 2003…earned his first Grade I victory when Film Maker won the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Keeneland in 2003…Film Maker captured the Grade III Gallorette Handicap on the Preakness undercard two years later…Bullsbay won the 2009 Harrison Johnson Stakes at Laurel and went on to win the Grade I Whitney Handicap later in the year…won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Turf (Grade I) with Shared Account, who is owned by Sagamore Farm…first victory was with Bounding Daisy in 1993 at Laurel Park…saddled his 1,000th winner at Laurel Park with Lucky Bachelor on November 16, 2006…won career-best 145 races in 2007.

PERSONAL: father was a bloodstock agent…worked for Jonathan Sheppard from 1985-90 and Bernie Bond in 1991, then assumed Bond’s stable when that trainer retired.