For Gyarmati and Sweet Reason, Success…and Scrutiny

When Leah Gyarmati first went to the racetrack, she didn’t go willingly. As a 16-year-old, she reluctantly took a job as a hotwalker in the Belmont Park barn of Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens at the behest of her father, who wanted her to earn some money to pay her horse show bills.…

For Gyarmati & Treadway, Undefeated Sweet Reason Makes Perfect Sense

Trainer Leah Gyarmati gave up an academic career for a life at the racetrack, so it is, perhaps, a little ironic that the filly who brought her her first graded stakes victory is named Sweet Reason. Gyarmati had an off-again, on-again relationship with reason earlier in her life, wrestling with the decision to stay in…

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For Gyarmati and Sweet Reason, Success…and Scrutiny

For Gyarmati & Treadway, Undefeated Sweet Reason Makes Perfect Sense