Being an everyday horse trainer is a full-time job and then some. Being a Kentucky Derby winning trainer adds a whole new set of obligations; throw in making history by being the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby, and let’s just say that if Cherie DeVaux’s responsibilities paid overtime, she’d be a very rich woman. …
Cherie DeVaux and Golden Tempo at her Saratoga barn, June 7, 2026. Photo by Teresa Genaro Cherie DeVaux and Golden Tempo at Saratoga Race Course, June 7, 2027. Photo by Teresa Genaro Cherie DeVaux doesn’t call Saratoga Springs her hometown. But that doesn’t preclude our community from claiming the first woman to train a Kentucky…
A year ago, breeder John Gunther entered a colt by his racehorse Without Parole in the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The bay was out of the Street Cry mare Mama Tembu, herself a half sibling to Stage Magic, dam of Justify, and he sold for $95,000 to Avenue Bloodstock. “He went through the sale,” said Gunther, “but there was a problem with the…
When Jay Hanley met Sol Kumin at a cocktail party on Nantucket several years ago, the talk quickly turned to horse racing, the former having grown up going to the track, the latter knowing nothing about it. Intrigued, Kumin proposed creating a partnership to buy some horses, an idea about which Hanley was enthusiastic, with…
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