Re: King Leatherbury: from Len to Jerry... (429 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: May 23, 2005 03:30PM
John-- in the 70's Ragozin had claimed and bought a few horses with some success, and used King for a few in Maryland. Friedman tried with a stable that I put up money for that did not do well, then I managed my first stable, using Ragozin, for a guy named Dennis Heard. The first horse we claimed was in Maryland using King, because of the Ragozin connection, and we did a lot with him over a 4 year period as we developed into the third leading stable (by number of wins) in the country. We also brought John Forbes up from Maryland to be our Jersey trainer (he ended up winning something like 16 training titles there), and got Mike Sedlececk, who was at that time living with his parents, to move out and train a string-- he ended up third leading NYRA trainer for the 80's.
Anyway, when I left Ragozin those guys basically came with me. King and Mike each had a client who still wanted to use Ragozin, but they recommended to their clients that they use us, and most did. King used us to claim Taking Risks for 20k and won 9 of 10 including a GI, and lots of other good ones.
JBel-- I do remember being interested in Mr. Sword, but that stable doesn't usually give them this much time, and we'll have to see how the race comes up. Also, that Dutrow thing figures to be in there-- who knows.
TGJB