Meet Our Trainers

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Linda Rice is perhaps the most decorated female trainer in the history of the sport. She is a third generation trainer of champions, and has made a distinct name for herself in her home state of New York. Her father is Clyde Rice, who raised her in Wisconsin amongst horses. Linda would begin her training career in 1987 and would earn her first Grade One stakes victory at Keeneland in 1998 with three-year old filly Tenski at the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. She also propelled Things Change to wins at the Adirondack and Spinaway run at Saratoga. Rice also ran La Verdad to a second place finish at the 2015 Breedres’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf Sprint. Winner of multiple Trainer of the Year awards from the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Linda has amassed well over 2,000 triumphs in her long standing career and continues to set a standard for trainers across the country.

Robbie Davis out of Saratoga Springs, New York.  In 1981 Robbie switched to Thoroughbred flat racing and in 1982 moved to compete at New York area tracks. He earned his first G1 victory in the 1985 Meadowlands Cup on board Bounding Basque.

During his career, Davis won a number of premier races including the 1986 Washington, D.C International Stakes the 1994 Pimlico Special and Canadian International Stakes, as well as the 1998 Wood Memorial Stakes. His best result in two Kentucky Derbystarts was a fifth with Mecke in 1995 with whom he also finished fifth in the Preakness Stakes.  Of his five mounts in the Belmont Stakes.  Davis's best finish came aboard Kingpost in the 1988 running won by Risen Star.