John Shirreffs

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by outofthebox

I believe he is very content with the amount he has. He likes his stable to be in one location, right before his eyes..He kind of has the John Ward system of train a lot and run sparingly, but with very good results. We were friends before he ever started training and it's no surprise to me that he's happy just the way things are..

if i were a trainer, i'd want to be hands on...there's no way i'd want a set up like pletcher, where you're more of a manager trying to keep tabs on employees, and no real time to be the trainer. i doubt it's possible that pletcher is the actual trainer of many of those horses under his name.

[10 pnt move up]

If he wanted a bigger stable he would have it, simple as that. He is a vietnam vet that is definitely a quite but take no **** kind of person. I believe his relationship with 505 came to a bitter end with the whole Bertrando incident, I could be wrong. Frankel took him, no problem.

Was that the first sub 45 half for the meet in a 6.5f race? Might have been for any distance, talk about falling apart.

Top 5 horsemen at Del Mar, currently on the grounds that is, if I had a horse if I would feel comfortable that the horses best interest would be at the forefront,

Bill Spwar
Dick Mandella
John Shirrreffs
Ron McAnally

and a guy who has only been here recently, Tom Proctor.

Guys like Baffert, Oneill, he I like them from a betting standpoint, like the fact they run their horses, not always on the level with their owners.

People I would trust the least, Ted West, Mike Mitchell, Barry Abrams

[Round Pen]

No question John is a Very good horsemen I remember meeting him back in the day when 505 Farms were Going strong (they bought Swept Overboard off of us way back then). I have a couple of friends that have taken horses away from him over the last couple of years because he would never run them. It seems Like John Trains more than he runs.