J Kev/ Ernie P said:

"There is not 1 trainer who can train that would not take horses for me. Dutrow, Pletcher, Frankel, Baffert, J. Jerkens, Asmussen, Albertrani, Zito, Ryerson, Bradshaw, Labocetta you name it they want to train for me...."

All of which explains why someone named Alan Klanfer took over training your horses from someone named Frank Amonte, Jr, who apparently is no longer licensed by NYRA.

None of the above listed top trainers would want to train for you privately, but any one of them would probably train Achilles of Troy.

Hey Ernie maybe you could coax me out of retirement. I voluntarily surrendered my Delaware, NJ and Pennsylvania licenses in April of '87. My record over 3 years was 75 starts, 3 wins, 11 seconds and 6 thirds (a friend of mine said that I couldn't train a dog to pee on a fire hydrant).

On the plus side I only ran afoul of the stewards twice in those 3 years: I had a horse come to the paddock late once at Monmouth, and another time Blum and Boulmetis called me in at the Meadowlands and asked me to ask the English jockey I sometimes used (he still rides in the Midwest) to wear underwear under his breeches.