Birth Date: August 15, 1967
Birth Place: Silver Spring, Maryland

2011 SEASON: ranked third in the local standings with 36 victories…finished second in the Laurel winter standings and was fourth during the Laurel fall meeting…had five two-win afternoons…Eighttofasttocatch won four stakes races at Laurel Park (Harrison Johnson, Japan Racing Association, Maryland Million Classic, Jennings Handicap)…Red’s Round Table won the Wide Country Stakes, Marshua Stakes and an added money score at Aqueduct for the second straight year…set career-highs in both wins (43) and earnings ($975,000).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: had a career-best 22 winners in 2004…Celtic Innis won a pair of added money races in 2005 and 2006 and won the Maryland Million Sprint in 2008…The son of Yarrow Brae was nine-for-38 with 27 in the money finishes at the 6-furlong distance and ended his seven-year career in 2010 with $648,638 in earnings…saddled Anarex to the 1994 Maryland Million Distaff Starter title…first win with Via Hawaii in June 1994 at Laurel Park.

PERSONAL: was steeplechase jockey before getting his trainer’s license…credits Joe Aitcheson for getting him interested in the business.