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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
The name of a farm that owned A LOT of really nice horses in So. Cal - they broke up in like the year 2000 I think.
They gave Shirreffs his first big break and he trained a lot of VERY good horses for them. I believe they gave him Bertrando as a rookie trainer on his own after Frankel refused to train him any more.
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The remnants of the stable are managed by Marsha Naify under her own name. She's the daughter of the late Marshall Naify, the owner of 505. Free Flying Soul, Street Boss, and Surf Cat are some of her more prominent runners. Typically uses Bruce Headley, but I think she uses one or two others including Cristophe Clement in NY.
Bertrando was part-owned by the late Ed Nahem of King Edward Stable and he originally was to train the horse when Frankel declined to. However, he couldn't get a trainer's license and for a while at least, John Shirreffs was considered a "program" trainer.