Richard Small

Birth Date: December 02, 1945
Birth Place: Baltimore, Maryland

STATISTICS: STARTS 1st 2nd 3rd MONEY
2011 178 28 27 30 $816,170
CAREER 7,597 1,154 1,142 1,096 $37,027,395

2011 SEASON: tied for 12th in the local standings with 26 victories…Fascinatin’ Rhythm won the Conniver Stakes.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: had at least one

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: had at least one added money victory for 29 straight years (1974-2002)…trained multiple-stakes winner Concern, the first Maryland-bred to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic (1994)...Concern finished third in the Preakness that year…trained multiple-stakes winner Broad Brush to a career mark of 27 starts, 14 wins (12 stakes), five seconds and 5 thirds, with earnings of $2.7 million from 1985-1987...Broad Brush was 3rd in the 1986 Preakness and had a pair of graded victories as a four-year old (Suburban Handicap & Santa Anita Handicap)…also saddled Looming in the ’94 Preakness, finishing seventh…He Loves Me won five added money races (four in Maryland) in 2004…considers Caesar’s Wish the best horse he’s ever trained, she broke Ruffian’s record in the Mother Goose in 1978…earned $370,000 when Dynamic Deputy, Take A Check and Sticky finished second-third-and fourth respectively in the 2006 Delaware Handicap (Grade II)…Richard’s Kid won the 2009 John Campbell Stakes before being sold and winning the Grade I Pacific Classic in the Bob Baffert barn…shared the 2010 Laurel Park fall training title with John Rigattieri.

PERSONAL: served as a Green Beret during the Vietnam War.