Trivia

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by oracle80

I know its hard to believe, but Magoo was his first trainer.
Noone ever gets that one right.

It's not hard to believe. He had horses back then and was more than a little shrewd with a young horse.

There are a lot of good trainers from 20 years ago that disappeared.

[The Bid]

Whatever happened to Margotta, his malibu is history and so is he

[blackthroatedwind]

He actually had a horse entered at Belmont ( I think it ran once or twice ) that had been racing in Phili.

I think he's not too popular with a lot of people ( at least in NY ) anymore.

[The Bid]

Why BTW, what happened to him, what did he do?

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Bid

Why BTW, what happened to him, what did he do?

I can't really get into these things on the internet, and to be honest I don't know any specifics, but I have heard a few people say less than complimentary things.

I always got along with Tony, but I also wasn't involved with him financially, which perhaps might have made things different.

I'll say one thing, the trainer for that operation, when they used to win, was terrific. But as he wasn't listed I won't say his name.....I will leave that to Mike as I'm sure he won't be able to resist.

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I can't really get into these things on the internet, and to be honest I don't know any specifics, but I have heard a few people say less than complimentary things.

I always got along with Tony, but I also wasn't involved with him financially, which perhaps might have made things different.

I'll say one thing, the trainer for that operation, when they used to win, was terrific. But as he wasn't listed I won't say his name.....I will leave that to Mike as I'm sure he won't be able to resist.

My mentor, Joe P, was the actual trainer. He did ALL THE TRAINING, he and the crack exercise guy named Finley Bishop.
Joe was incredible, they made a lot of private buys and made a fortune.
They bought one for 35 g's named something like Foreign Intrigue that they gelded and won two races with and then resold for 500 g's.
They had some other nice ones like Olympic cat and Tornado Cat and Copper Mount who won the NY Derby and Albany handicap.
Silver Fox(of the famous bar shoe off silver foxes) won a nice stakes race as well.
They went their own ways and the whole thing crumbled.
Anthony is training a couple now, I talk to him. He was out of the business for a long time and hes got a few horses now.
Lets just say the days of the fancy breakfast at the barn, the limos, the champagne parties etc are all gone.

[The Bid]

Does he have any good owners?

He sold that horse he had entered who scratched named Tease. Shes in at laurel today in the 7th race.
He actually won some grade ones including the Whitney, Malibu, and that grade one grass race with Turk Passer.
That seems like a very long time ago.