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TRAINERS
BRUCE ALEXANDER
KELLY JOHN BREEN
Born: August 3, 1954
Birthplace: Canandaigua, NY
Residence: Eatontown, NJ
Born: May 13, 1969
Birthplace: Perth Amboy, NJ
Residence: Tinton Falls, NJ
Burst onto the local scene in
2010 by earning leading trainer
honors at Monmouth Park.
Alexander’s 28 wins in 2010
was an 86% increase over his
total from the previous year. He
conditioned Lady Alexander to
a pair of stakes wins in 2010. In
2012, Alexander won the Grade
3 Oceanport and Grade 3 Cliff Hanger with Tune
Me In.
Monmouth Park 2014 10 1 3
0
Total 20142045 2
$38,584
$192,330
MANUEL BERRIOS
Born: July 21, 1948
Birthplace: Santiago, Chile
Residence: Red Bank, NJ
Berrios trains primarily for
owner Menotti Lembo, who
he teamed with to capture
the Lincroft Handicap with
Beknown to Me and the Open
Mind with Anjiz Slew in 2001.
Berrios sent out over 150
starters at Monmouth and the
Meadowlands in 2000, 2002
and 2009. In 1999 he captured a pair of races with
Beknown to Me from five Monmouth Park starts.
Monmouth Park 2014 78 4 6
7
Total 20141026610
$141,380
$175,600
After taking his fir st
Monmouth training title in 2005,
Breen returned in 2006 with an
even better season, winning
another training championship
and increasing his earnings by
more than 50%. Breen captured
his first career race in 1993 at the
Meadowlands. He went on to be
an assistant to Raines Award winner Ben Perkins
Sr., before going back out on his own in 2000
when Perkins retired. New Jersey born and raised,
Breen has enjoyed tremendous success over the
past several years, highlighted by Ruler On Ice’s
victory in the 2011 Belmont Stakes. In 2012, he
captured three Monmouth Park stakes: Skip Away,
Just Smashing and Long Branch. In 2013, Breen
trainees won the Fort Monmouth Stakes and Grade
2 Monmouth Cup. Last season, Breen saddled Bern
Identity to a win in the My Frenchman Stakes.
Monmouth Park 2014 77 12 7 11
Total 20142404130 32
$453,824
$2,439,392
EDWIN T. BROOME
Born: October 26, 1951
Birthplace: Berlin, NJ
Residence: Erial, NJ
Broome has been a
M o n m o u t h Pa r k m a i n s t a y
since 1994, when he shifted his
operation from Philly Park to
the Garden State. Since then
he has captured four training
titles at the Meadowlands, three owner’s titles
at Monmouth and five owner’s championships
at the Big M. He sent out Mi Narrow to capture
stakes races in three consecutive years 1998-2000.
As a child, Broome worked at his grandfather’s
(Carol Auwater) farm, mucking stalls and breaking
yearlings. He operated a crane for 10 years to
save enough money to enter the racing business.
Broome trained three and bred four winners on
New Jersey Bred Festival Day in 2009 including the
Broome owned and trained Lucky James. In 2011,
Broome finished fourth in the trainer’s standings
with 25 victories. In 2014, Broome saddled a pair
of stakes winners, Partyallnightlong in the John J.
Reilly and Posse Dreamin in the Jersey Juvenile.
Monmouth Park 2014 89 17 10
8
Total 20141702620 13
$482,841
$739,343
CHARLES “BUDDY”
CARLESIMO JR.
Born: September 25, 1949
Birthplace: Newark, NJ
Residence: Highlands, NJ
With more than 20 years
of training on the New Jersey
circuit to his credit, Carlesimo
enjoyed stakes success with
Silent Serenade, winner of
the Open Mind Handicap on
opening day of the 2002 Monmouth season and
the Spruce Fir Handicap on closing day of the 2000
meet. In 1990, Carlesimo captured the biggest race
of his career when Quick Mischief won the Grade
1 Ruffian at Belmont and later went on to win
Monmouth’s Nauvoo Stakes in 1992. Carlesimo’s
older cousin is P.J. Carlesimo, former Seton Hall
head basketball coach. In 2013, the Carlesimotrained Raging Daoust upset the Grade 3 Salvator
Mile.
Monmouth Park 2014 48 2 3
6
Total 20141128915
$103,169
$252,321
HENRY CARROLL
Jane Cibelli
Born: December 15, 1947
Birthplace: Orangeburg, SC
Residence: St. Mathews, SC
Carroll’s father, Bill, was a
trainer in New England. Carroll
got his first big horse in 1990
with Yankee Affair, winner of
three Grade 1 races that year,
including the United Nations
Handicap, the trainer ’s first
Grade 1 victory. Carroll campaigned his first
champion when Smoke Glacken won the Eclipse
Award as the nation’s top sprinter in 1997. The year
prior, Smoke Glacken won the Sapling Stakes and
in his championship year he went six for eight,
including wins in the DeFrancis Dash and Jersey
Shore Breeders’ Cup Stakes, the latter’s first year
being contested at Monmouth Park. Carroll won
the 2003 closing day Point Given Stakes with
Rockin on Ready.
Monmouth Park 2014 11 1 2
4
Total 20141733 4
$52,180
$81,675
Cibelli worked with horses
in her native country before
moving to the United States in
1983. She races primarily on
the New Jersey – Florida circuit.
In 2007 she tied for ninth in the
overall Meadowlands standings,
winning at a 28% rate. In 2009, the Cibelli-trained
Chirac captured the Skip Away and Grade 3 Iselin
Stakes, the trainer’s first graded victory. In 2011,
Cibelli made history, becoming the first female to
win the Monmouth Park training title after sending out 32 winners. Cibelli returned in 2012 to take
her second consecutive training championship.
In 2013, Cibelli trained Wicked Tune to a win in the
My Frenchman.
Monmouth Park 2014 74 9 7
9
Total 20142615637 27
$251,938
$1,282,505
BOBBY DibONA
LUIS CARVAJAL JR.
Born: July 6, 1972
Birthplace: Santiago, Chile
Residence: Hallandale, FL
Carvajal grew up in a racing
family and followed his father
into the jockey business. After
three years as a rider, Carvajal
Jr. switched over to training
and worked five years as an
assistant to Angel Penna Jr. In
the mid-1990’s he went to work
as an assistant to Monmouth
Park veteran Bob Durso, a job
he held until Durso’s retirement.
In 2005 Carvajal went out on his own and won his
first race with Fagedaboudit Sal the following year.
In 2009, that charge won the Bob Harding, Carvajal’s first stakes win. In 2011, the Carvajal-trained
sprinter Dabnabit captured the John J. Reilly and
Colts Neck.
Monmouth Park 2014 24 2 1
4
Total 20144554 7
STEPHEN L.
DIMAURO
Born: July 7, 1961
Birthplace: Leicester, UK
Residence: Oldsmar, FL
$68,986
$143,898
Born: December 2, 1961
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Residence: Davie, FL
Dibona was introduced to
racing through his friend’s father, who owned horses stabled
at Suffolk Downs. In 1989 Dibona became an owner himself, winning his first race out
at Suffolk. In 2000 he took out
his trainer’s license and won
his first race that year with Hurricane Havoc at Gulfstream. He has been stabling
at Monmouth Park since 2006 and has enjoyed
great success, most notably with Actin Good, winner of the 2007 Grade 3 Pegasus, and Cuba, an
$18,000 claim that earned over $400,000 after the
acquisition and victor of the 2008 Charles Hesse
Handicap. Actin Good added another stakes win
to his resume by taking the 2009 Majestic Light on
Haskell Day. In 2013, Dibona trained Hard Enough
to wins in the Jersey Derby and Restoration. Last
season, Hard Enough returned to take the Grade
3 Red Bank Stakes.
Monmouth Park 2014 22 6 2
1
Total 2014 801715 9
$179,053
$499,786
Born: September 3, 1957
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Davie, FL
Son of a jockey and trainer,
DiMauro took out his trainer’s
license in 1982 when he trained
horses for Dogwood Stable.
DiMauro saddledTwo Item Limit
to a third-place finish in the 2001 Breeders’ Cup
Distaff. In 2011, DiMauro trained Jersey-bred Hermosillo to a win in the Charles Hesse III Handicap.
Monmouth Park 2014 49 10 4
5
Total 20142313528 27
$217,427
$880,812
PATRICIA FARRO
Born: October 7, 1951
Birthplace: Jersey City, NJ
Residence: Tinton Falls, NJ
Hailing from a racing family,
Farro’s brother was a jockey,
while her father and brother
were both in the breeding end
of the business. Along with
her husband Mike, the Farro’s
operate a successful operation
in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
New York. Farro took out her
trainer’s license in the early 1990s. In 2004 Farro
became the first female in track history to win the
trainer’s title at the Meadowlands. In 2011, Farro
trained the speedy Royal Currier to a stakes win
in the Anderson Fowler. In 2012, that charge came
back to take the Mr. Prospector and theTeddy Drone
Stakes. Farro enjoyed a banner year in 2014, with
earnings just north of $4.5 million, putting her 25th
nationally in terms of money won.
Monmouth Park 2014 126 13 19 16
Total 2014 982164165 160
$320,937
$4,590,702
ALAN E. GOLDBERG
CHARLES R. HARVATT
TIMOTHY A. HILLS
Goldberg conditioned 1989
Champion Sprinter Safely Kept,
who he saddled to victory
in the 1990 Breeder s ’ Cup
Sprint. In 1997, Jules captured
Monmouth’s Long Branch Stakes
for Goldberg. In 2003, Goldberg
sent out Runspastum to victory
in the Grade 3 Oceanport
Handicap. He saddled Social Queen to a stakes
win at Monmouth in 2007 and returned with
that charge to capture the Politely and Grade 3
Eatontown a year later. In 2012, Goldberg won
a pair of Monmouth Stakes, the Monmouth
Beach with Nefertini and the Grade 3 Taylor Made
Matchmaker with Laughing.That charge came back
to take the Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes in 2013. Last
year, Goldberg saddledTannery to a win in the Miss
Liberty Stakes.
Harvatt conditioned the
popular New Jersey-bred filly
Paparika, victor of the Santo
Lalomia Handicap and the Miss
Woodford Stakes at Monmouth
and the Holly Stak es and
New Jersey Futurity at the
Meadowlands. Harvatt also
trained the ultra-fast Riley’s
Heat, winner of the 1999 Witches Brew at the Big
M. Harvatt has enjoyed great success on the New
Jersey circuit, tying with D. Wayne Lukas and Bill
Perry for fourth in the trainer’s standings at the 1999
Monmouth meet and combining for 30 victories at
Monmouth and the Meadowlands the prior year.
Hills formerly trained on
the New England circuit before
moving his stable to Monmouth
Park full-time in the mid-1990s.
Since then he captured the 2002
and 2004 Monmouth Park training titles and finished second
in 2001 and 2003. Hills won
the 1999 Grade 3 Reeve Schley Jr. Stakes with Kissin Jeb, the 2002 Grade 3
Eatontown Handicap with Cousin Gigi and the
2006 Grade 3 Boiling Springs with Toll Taker. In
2003 Hills sent out Mooji Moo to win the Regret
Stakes on Haskell Day and the following year that
charge took the filly and mare sprint division of
the Sunshine Millions. Hills won a pair of stakes at
the 2008 Monmouth meet. He is a regular on the
New Jersey-South Florida circuit. In 2012, the Hillstrained Senator Beck took the Desert Vixen Stakes.
Born: July 16, 1949
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Oakhurst, NJ
Monmouth Park 2014 21 6 2
4
Total 20141703024 33
Born: July 13, 1941
Birthplace: Carteret, NJ
Residence: Rahway, NJ
$166,804
$1,316,076
CLAUDIO
GONZALEZ
Born: November 5, 1976
Birthplace: Chile
Residence: Shrewsbury, NJ
Gonzalez stormed onto the
Monmouth Park scene in 2013
by winning 27 races, good for
fourth in the trainer standings.
That year, he saddled Princess
Perfect to win the Jersey Girl
Handicap on New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival
Day. He returned in 2014 to finish fifth in the overall
standings and send out Silent Appeal to win the Dan
Horn Handicap.
Monmouth Park 2014 165 21 26 28
Total 20144257769 70
$652,573
$2,033,993
Monmouth Park 2014
Total 2014
56
154
4 7
7 28
7
26
Born: July 22, 1952
Birthplace: Nashua, NH
Residence: Fort Lauderdale, FL
$121,990
$266,758
MARK HENNIG
Monmouth Park 2014 65 11 8
7
Total 20141882820 21
Born: April 10, 1965
Birthplace: Mansfield, OH
Residence: Garden City, NY
Hennig is the son of fellow
trainer John Hennig. A former
assistant to Neil Howard, D.
Wayne Lukas and Jack Van Berg,
Mark Hennig began a solo training career on July 1, 1992 when
he took a position with Team
Valor. Hennig has enjoyed success on both coasts and in major
races. In 2002 Hennig saddled Cat’s At Home to win
the Skip Away Stakes and the Iselin Handicap. The
following year he sent out Summer Colony to take
the Molly Pitcher Breeders’ Cup Handicap. Team
Hennig won four stakes at the 2005 Monmouth meet
and captured the Grade 2 Meadowlands Cup with
Tap Day that same year. In 2008, Hennig saddled
Notional to a victory in the Grade 3 Salvator Mile.
Fans can follow all the Hennig horses at his website,
www.hennigracing.com.
Monmouth Park 2014 14 1 1
7
Total 20142173123 35
$36,880
$1,801,799
$282,854
$1,133,261
TIMOTHY J. KELLY
Born: October 16, 1962
Birthplace: Hollywood, FL
Residence: Colts Neck, NJ
Kelly has been a regular on
the New Jersey circuit for the
past 20 years and has enjoyed
stakes success taking the 2000
Blue Sparkler at Monmouth
and the 1991 Jockey Hollow
at the Meadowlands. In 1997
he enjoyed a 20% win rate at
Monmouth. In 2014, Kelly saddled Disco Rhythm
to take the Charles Hesse III Handicap on New
JerseyThoroughbred Festival Day. His clients have
included the Stavola Brothers’ Middletown Stable
and Daniel J. Ljoka.
Monmouth Park 2014
Total 2014
56 8
68 10
8
8
7
9
$253,175
$288,460
the Jersey Breeders’ Handicap with Jersey Peach.
In 2009, Orseno saddled Reata’s Quick Punch to a
win in the Candy Éclair Stakes and D’Wild Ride to
a victory in the Regret Stakes on Haskell Day.
JOHN F. MAZZA
KATHY MONGEON
Mazza has been training
horses at Monmouth Park for
more than 40 years. He won the
inaugural Thoroughbred race at
the Meadowlands with Play the
Palace in 1977. In 1988 Mazza
captured the Sorority Stakes
with Divine Answer. In 1992 he
trained Great Navigator, who broke his maiden at
Monmouth and went on to win a Grade 1 event.
Capture the Gold was the star of the Mazza barn in
1997, winning stakes at Monmouth and the Meadowlands. In 2005 Mazza saddled Carrots Only to
win the Jersey Breeders’ Handicap and in 2007
won the Charles Hesse Handicap with that charge.
Mazza was the recipient of the 2012 Virgil “Buddy”
Raines Distinguished Achievement Award.
Mongeon began with
show horses at the age of
four, but shifted her interest to
Thoroughbreds when her father
purchased his first racehorse
when she was just 11 years old.
At the age of 18, Mongeon was
the youngest licensed trainer
in the country when she began her conditioning
career at Suffolk Downs. She moved south to
Monmouth Park in 1986 and later moved farther
south in 1991 when she went to Calder. Mongeon
returned to New Jersey in the late 1990’s and has
been stabling on the New Jersey-South Florida
circuit ever since. In 2013, Mongeon took the Open
Mind Handicap with Don’s Peach.
Born: May 23, 1937
Birthplace: Long Branch, NJ
Residence: Locust, NJ
Monmouth Park 2014 30 4 5
3
Total 20144166 5
Born: August 17, 1963
Birthplace: Woonsocket, RI
Residence: Hollywood, FL
$159,817
$207,987
Monmouth 20142013 5
Total 20145137 8
$45,050
$117,495
Patrick McBurney
JOE ORSENO
A longtime assistant to John
Forbes, McBurney and Forbes
have worked together since the
mid-1970s. McBurney took over
the day-to-day training responsibilities of the barn in 2007, while
Forbes focused on the business/
partnership side of the operation. That same year, Cable Boy
proved the star of the barn, setting a course record
in just his second career start before going on to
win the Coronado’s Quest Stakes and running in
the Haskell Invitational.
Orseno’s first job in racing
was walking hots. He later landed a job as assistant to Chuck
Spina, before obtaining his
trainer’s license in 1977. Orseno
won the Garden State training title in 1988 and finished tenth nationally that year with 137 wins.
His first full year at Monmouth was 1991, finishing
second in the standings. He saddled Nines Wild to
a runner-up performance in the 1992 Haskell. Orseno was leading trainer at the Meadowlands in 1996.
In 2000 he won the Preakness Stakes with Red
Bullet, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with Macho Uno
and the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf with
Perfect Sting, all for Frank Stronach. Later that
year, Orseno was named a finalist for the Eclipse
Award as the nation’s outstanding trainer. In 2006,
he captured five stakes at Monmouth, including
Born: October 4, 1955
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Haddon Heights, NJ
Born: February 9, 1957
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Fair Haven, NJ
Monmouth Park 2014 76 14 12 10
Total 20141211815 17
$471,096
$843,231
Monmouth Park 2014 90 10 14 13
Total 20142932930 43
$348,101
$1,463,778
JOrge NAVARRO
Born: January 16, 1975
Birthplace: Panama
Residence: Davie, FL
In 2013, in his first season
of training at Monmouth Park,
Navarro was leading conditioner
with 47 wins. In addition to his
impressive win total, Navarrotrained runners accounted for 33
runner-up finishes in 2013, good
for a top two finish rate of 55%.
He returned last year to once again top the trainer’s
standings with 43 winners, among them a record
tying four on one card on August 30.
Monmouth Park 2014
Total 2014
158 43 27
413 114 78
24
58
$829,834
$2,281,140
BENJAMIN W. PERKINS JR.
JOSEPH H. PIERCE JR.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton
School of Business, Perkins followed his father into the training business. Perkins won the
2000 Monmouth Park training
title after finishing second in
the standings the year before.
He captured six stakes at the
2003 meet including the Long Branch with Max
Forever, who went on to start in the Haskell. From
2000-2002 Perkins dominated the Sorority Stakes
winning with Stormy Pick in 2000, Forest Heiress in
2001 and Wild Snitch in 2002. He has also captured
graded stakes in New Jersey with Storm Tower,
winner of the 1994 Salvator Mile and runner-up in
the 1993 Haskell, and Sacred Honour, victor of the
1993 Sapling. Throughout the years Perkins has
successfully maintained stables in Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. His
father, Ben Perkins Sr., was the recipient of the 2007
Virgil “Buddy” Raines Distinguished Achievement
Award. In 2012 Perkins saddled a pair of stakes winners, The Hunk in the John J. Reilly Handicap and
Well Spelled in the Grade 3 Jersey Shore Stakes.
In 2013, Perkins trained Jersey-bred Rainbow Heir
to a win against open company in the Grade 3
Jersey Shore. Last year Perkins saddled three
stakes winners, including a pair won by Rainbow
Heir.
Pierce followed his father
into the horse business, taking
out his own trainer’s license in
1956. At age 17 Pierce joined the
Navy and is a veteran of World
War II. Throughout his career
Pierce has trained more than
60 stakes winners, including
Dream Deal, Friendly Lover (a Monmouth Park
Hall of Champions member), Family Enterprize,
Night Invader and millionaire Grecian Flight. In
1986 Pierce won a then record $474,595 for the
73-day Monmouth meet. In 1997 he captured the
Grade 3 Matchmaker, it’s first year at Monmouth
after previously being run at Atlantic City. Pierce
sent out Quiet Desperation to win the 2004 Colts
Neck Handicap as well as the 2006 Bernie Dowd
Handicap. In 2007 Pierce saddled French Vintage, the last foal from Grecian Flight, to win the
Choice Stakes. A year later he won the Jersey Girl
Handicap with ParadiseTonight. Pierce was named
the fourth recipient of the Virgil “Buddy” Raines
Distinguished Achievement Award in 1999.
Born: March 10, 1956
Birthplace: Camden, NJ
Residence: Medford, NJ
Monmouth Park 2014 60 12 9
5
Total 20141322121 23
$449,025
$913,413
Born: June 24, 1927
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Residence: Boca Raton, FL
Monmouth Park 2014 26 5 4
3
Total 20143554 5
$182,734
$197,969
EDDIE PLESA JR.
Born: April 25, 1949
Birthplace: Seattle, WA
Residence: Plantation, FL
The son of a trainer
and jockey, Plesa Jr. was an
assistant to his father as well as
having worked for Harbor View
Farm, Fred Hooper and trainer
Stan Hough. He has successfully maintained stables in New
York, Ohio, Delaware, Florida
and New Jersey. Plesa has trained numerous
stakes winner throughout his career, including
Gottcha Gold, who captured a pair of stakes at
the 2006 Monmouth meeting, before going on to
win the 2007 Salvator Mile and Iselin Stakes and
a runner-up performance in the inaugural Breed-
ers’ Cup Dirt Mile. In 2011, Plesa captured a pair of
stakes at Monmouth: the Elkwood with Successful Mission and the Colleen with Say a Novena.
Among his three stakes winners in 2012 was Brave
Dave, victor of the Grade 3 Sapling. Plesa ended
2013 second in the overall trainer standings and
finished with six stakes victories including the
Colleen and Jersey Juvenile with Flay Mignon.
Last season, Plesa was once again second in the
standings and again sending six stakes winners,
included graded victories in the Salvator Mile with
Itsmyluckyday and Prudhoe Bay in the Jersey
Shore.
Monmouth Park 2014 160 34 31 14
Total 20143536755 37
$1,148,802
$2,832,186
TODD A. PLETCHER
Born: June 26, 1967
Birthplace: Dallas, TX
Residence: Garden City, NY
The son of veteran trainer
J. J. Pletcher, Todd is a graduate
of the University of Arizona with
a degree in Animal Science. A
former assistant to D. Wayne
Lukas, Pletcher took out his
trainer’s license in 1996 and won
his first race on January 26 of
that year. Pletcher sent out Balto
Star, at odds of 37-1, to a wire-to-wire performance
in the 2003 United Nations at Monmouth and the
following year sent out that charge to win the
Meadowlands Cup. Among Pletcher’s numerous
Monmouth Park stakes wins are the 2006 Haskell
with Bluegrass Cat, the 2007 United Nations with
English Channel and the 2007 Haskell with Any
Given Saturday. Pletcher has won the Eclipse
Award as Outstanding trainer seven times, 20042007, 2010, 2013 and 2014. Pletcher led all trainers
in stakes wins again at Monmouth in 2012, sending
out eight winners, among them: Turbo Compressor in the U.N., Rule in the Monmouth Cup, San
Pablo in the Iselin and Dancing Solo in the Boiling
Springs. In 2013, Pletcher swept the Grade 3 Pegasus and Grade 1 Haskell with Verrazano. Among
Pletcher’s four stakes wins in 2014 were the graded
Molly Pitcher and Cliff Hanger.
Monmouth Park 2014 94 20 10 17
Total 2014 999240170 136
$923,476
$22,476,736
TERESA M. POMPAY
JAMES T. RYERSON
GREGORY SACCO
Pompay posted a banner
year in 20 02, as her stable
earnings topped $1 million for
the first time. She took three
Monmouth stakes in 2002: the
Grade 3 Matchmaker, Grade 3
Eatontown and Choice Stakes.
That same year she finished
third in the Monmouth Park
trainer standings, the highest of any female in
track history, up to that time. In 2003 Pompay
saddled the talented Tabacchi to a maiden win
at Monmouth before running him in the Grade
1 Futurity at Belmont. She finished second in
the 2003 Meadowlands trainer standings, tying
with Linda Rice. Pompay made national news
in 2011 when she trained Currency Swap to win
the Hopeful at Saratoga, the trainer’s first Grade
1 victory.
Ry e r s o n i s M o n m o u t h
County born and raised. At age
15 he worked on the Monmouth
Park backstretch and eventually
became an assistant to John
Tammaro III before going out
on his own at the age of 24. He
worked as a real estate appraiser
between stints as a trainer when
he got started. Ryerson got his first “big horse”
in 1994 with Long Branch Stakes winner Meadow
Flight, runner-up to Holy Bull in the 1994 Haskell
and winner of the Pennsylvania Derby. In 1995
Ryerson won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with
Unbridled’s Song, who he saddled as the favorite
in the 1996 Kentucky Derby. In 2003 Ryerson’s
Jersey Giant burst on to the scene winning the
John J. Reilly, Skip Away and Skip Trial, in addition to finishing second in the Salvator Mile and
third in the Iselin, all at Monmouth Park. In 2004
Ryerson captured the Trenton Stakes with Tangier
Sound and theTyro with Park Avenue Ball; the latter
went on to win the Grade 2 Futurity at Belmont.
Park Avenue Ball returned in 2005 to win the Long
Branch and run third in the Haskell. In 2006,
Ryerson saddled that charge to victories in the
Frisk Me Now, Skip Away and the Grade 3 Iselin.
Sacco is a third generation
horseman. His father, William,
was leading trainer at Monmouth in 1962. In 2005 and
2006 Sacco finished fourth in the
overall Meadowlands standings.
In 2007 he saddled Prop Me Up
to win the Lady’s Secret Stakes
on Haskell Day before running
that charge in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. In 2009,
the Sacco-trained Piscitelli finished fourth in the
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile three months after breaking his maiden at Monmouth Park. In 2010, Sacco
sent out Unbridled Essence to win the Grade 3
Matchmaker on Haskell Day. In 2011, Sacco captured a trio of stakes races and finished third in the
overall standings. In 2012, Sacco trained the aptly
named Ima Jersey Girl to capture the Jersey Girl
Handicap on New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival
Day.
Born: October 8, 1952
Birthplace: Long Branch, NJ
Residence: Oceanport, NJ
Born: March 11, 1961
Birthplace: Saratoga Springs, NY
Residence: Neptune, NJ
Monmouth Park 2014 59 10 4
7
Total 20141632919 16
$241,512
$626,215
DEREK RYAN
Born: September 22, 1966
Birthplace: Ireland
Residence: Long Branch, NJ
Monmouth Park 2014 11 1 3
0
Total 20142643336 40
Having enjoyed success in
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, Ryan catapulted onto the national scene
in early 2009 with Musket Man,
who he saddled to victories
in the Tampa Bay and Illinois
Derbies. That charge went on to
finish a hard-charging third in the Kentucky Derby.
Prior to the success of Musket Man, Ryan’s biggest
win came in the 2002 Grade 3 Jersey Derby, when
Emergency Status took his foes wire-to-wire. In
2009, Ryan’s stable earnings topped $1 million for
the second-consecutive year.
Monmouth Park 2014 55 8 6 13
Total 20141672917 31
$232,132
$729,343
Born: November 13, 1965
Birthplace: Miami Beach, FL
Residence: Ocean Township, NJ
$64,565
$1,455,049
Monmouth Park 2014 163 21 24 22
Total 20143204447 49
$571,390
$1,264,812
JASON SERVIS
JOHN TAMMARO III
TONY WILSON
Formerly a jockey’s valet,
Servis began training in December 2001 and scored his first win
in March of 2002 with Hattab
Be You at Aqueduct. In 2002 he
captured the Oceanport Handicap with Tempest Fugit. Servis
has captured multiple training
titles at the Meadowlands. He
won his first graded event in 2008 when American
Border took the Grade 3 Violet at the Big M. That
charge returned to take the Miss Liberty Stakes at
Monmouth in 2009. In 2013, Servis finished sixth
in the Monmouth Park trainers standings and had
two horses, Ju Ju Eyeballs and Ribo Bobo, win
two stakes a piece. Last season, Servis was third
in the overall trainer standings after sending out
a pair of stakes winners.
Tammaro was the leading
trainer at Monmouth Park in
1973, 1974 and 1986. He shares
the all-time record for wins in one
Monmouth meet with J. Willard
Thompson, each capturing 55 in
the mid-70’s. In 2001 he captured
the Sapling Stakes with Pure
Precision. He has twice captured the Long Branch,
Thistyranthasclass in 2000 and Bert’s Bubbleator
in 1993. Tammaro has also twice won the Salvator
Mile, Jyp in 1986 and Count His Fleet in 1982. In
2005 Tammaro sent out Smart N Classy to take
the Grade 3 Eatontown Handicap. His father, the
late John Tammaro Sr., was a leading horseman in
Maryland. In 2008, Tammaro saddled Luna Park to
win the Bernie Dowd Handicap.
Wilson followed his father,
Earl, into the training business.
Over the years he worked for
trainers Leonard “Whitey” Makowski, Ben Perkins Jr. and John
Tammaro III. He went out on
his own several years ago and
enjoyed a break out season in
2006 at Monmouth winning his
first stakes race when Pure Disco took the Goldfinch Handicap. Later that season Wilson won
the Klassy Breifcase and Incredible Revenge with
Pretty Imposing. In 2007 Pure Disco successfully
defended her Goldfinch Handicap title for Wilson.
In 2011, Wilson sent out Deliburnsky to take the
colts division of the Jersey Juvenile.
Born: April 2, 1957
Birthplace: Charles Town, WV
Residence: Eatontown, NJ
Monmouth Park 2014 84 24 23
6
Total 20143467170 37
Born: March 10, 1946
Birthplace: Charles Town, WV
Residence: Cooksville, MD
$666,720
$2,825,076
Monmouth Park 2014 53 5 8
5
Total 20141601626 16
$166,593
$442,589
J. WILLARD THOMPSON
Born: March 30, 1935
Birthplace: Atlanta, GA
Residence: Colts Neck, NJ
CHUCK SPINA
Born: June 28, 1948
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Residence: Oceanport, NJ
Spina grew up in Brooklyn
and first began with Western
show horses. He won his first
race as a trainer at Belmont Park
in 1972. Later that year he came
to New Jersey and operated
Twelve Gate horse van company until 1985. Spina
won the Choice Handicap with Dream’s End in 1987.
Spina was the recipient of the 2014 Virgil “Buddy”
Raines Distinguished Achievement Award.
Monmouth Park 2014 60 5 4 11
Total 2014949613
Born: July 2, 1960
Birthplace: Camden, NJ
Residence: Neptune, NJ
$161,773
$245,902
A former steeplechase jockey, Thompson and his wife,
well-known hunter/jumper
trainer Carol, own Quiet Winter
Farm, where they also breed
racehorses under the same
name. In 2001 Thompson won
the Monmouth Park training
title, his first since 1977, and his
fourth overall. He is the second
winningest trainer in Meadowlands history, and captured back-to-back titles
there in 1980 and 1981. In 2007 Thompson sent
out Jenny Bean Girl to win the Jersey Girl Handicap on New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival Day. In
2014, Thompson sent out Pinot Grigio to a win in
the Open Mind Handicap. In 1996, Thompson was
named the inaugural winner of the Virgil “Buddy”
Raines Distinguished Achievement Award.
Monmouth Park 2014
Total 2014
83
128
5 6
9 10
9
12
$251,202
$378,938
Monmouth Park 2014
Total 2014
48 6
86 14
5
9
7
13
$145,089
$355,079